Penny Garbus, President of Soaring Eagle Consulting Author of: Mining New Gold May 2021 will probably be known for a couple of news stories but one that affected our daily lives was the shut down of the Colonial Pipeline and how it frightened people so badly that they felt they needed to collect gas in […]
Soaring Eagle Database Consulting Inc. and SQL Governor are announcing a partnership to help companies save money SQL Governor® helps companies to modernize their data platforms, ease migration to the cloud, and reduce their SQL costs and carbon footprint. SQL Governor® capacity optimization and performance optimization solution is ideal for planning the data platform renewal, in […]
Penny Garbus, President Data protection has many facets. First there are hardware structures, software, and procedural processes. Then you have defensive maneuver strategies that you complete through Audit Penetration tests and Phishing tests. You need all the different layers from many types of software and hardware firewalls, SSL certificates, then layers of security monitoring software […]
Interested in migrating your on-premise Microsoft SQL Server to Azure? One of Guru DBAs, Maninder Singh, has created this detailed presentation on moving SQL Server VMs to Microsoft Azure.
By Rohit Khadka, Sr. Database Administrator As a Production DBA, I have had the opportunity to do an upgrade/migration from SQL Server 2012 to SQL Server 2016. During the process, I realized that installing a new SQL Server on 20-30 servers in a short time was going to be challenging and monotonous. Going through the […]
By Rohit Khadka, Sr. Database Administrator At some point of our DBA career, we all have had an opportunity to run a set of scripts one by one for each instance until your fingers and mouse gave up. Then, we came back to work next day with a bandage wrapped around our fingers and continue […]
Things you are doing wrong in SQL Server (and how to do them right). With our CEO, Jeff Garbus.
Recently I was called into a shop that had a 4 terabyte database, who claimed they didn’t have anywhere near that much data. Upon investigation, they were correct. They had about 100 gig of data, and about 3.9 T of indexes. Is this too much? Well, in order to make that kind of judgement call […]
For many businesses, it is hard to determine whether online or on-premises storage is the right choice. There are many considerations to take into account, including their benefits and challenges. Let’s analyze both options to help companies decide on the correct option. What is Cloud Software? Cloud solutions allow companies to manage, store and access […]