I couldn’t go thru all of the questions during the session. So, this is Part 2.   It’s inevitable that you will be migrating your SQL Server databases throughout it’s lifecycle. But migrating a standalone database is not the same as when they’re in a high availability solution.   This episode of the Practical SQL […]

It’s inevitable that you will be migrating your SQL Server databases throughout it’s lifecycle. But migrating a standalone database is not the same as when they’re in a high availability solution.   This episode of the Practical SQL Server HA/DR Show covers what you need to consider when when migrating SQL Server high availability solutions. […]

If there’s one thing that remained the same ever since enterprise technology was made available to us, it’s BACKUPS. The way we’ve done backups have evolved – from punch cards, magnetic tape storage, local hard drives, SAN/NAS, all the way to the cloud. Yet we still have the need to do them.   While most […]

Ever since I started doing these weekly Q&A sessions, I noticed a trend on the questions that people submit using the online form. More often than not, the questions fall under the “HOW” category.   Sure, as technology professionals, we get paid to DO the work. So, it makes sense to know the HOW. I […]

I decided to focus on a theme every week for the Practical SQL Server HA/DR Show. This week’s theme – Monitoring HA Solutions.   I couldn’t count the number of times that I’ve seen customer environments running complex and expensive Always On Availability Groups yet don’t have a monitoring solution. I don’t understand how someone […]

I decided to focus on a theme every week for the Practical SQL Server HA/DR Show. This week’s theme – Patching and Maintaining HA Solutions.   Regular care and feeding of digital assets – servers, apps, platforms, etc. – is essential to keeping them up and running. Hotfixes and patches are being released on a […]

We heard the earthquake warning device echoing loudly throughout the building. This wasn’t a drill. We left everything on our desks and started to head out. Taking the elevator was not an option so it’s a good thing that we were just on the 5th floor and not on the 17th. We spent almost two […]

You don’t qualify!   Imagine hearing those words from someone telling you that you’re not enough. Insufficient. You didn’t meet the standard.   I’ve heard a lot of that when I started looking for a job after graduating from college. An engineering degree wasn’t enough to get hired. It didn’t help that I failed seventeen […]

I recently got a question about how to reclaim database space in SharePoint. The specific database mentioned was WSS_Logging although this could have been any of the SharePoint databases or any other SQL Server database for that matter. The database was growing really fast so the farm was configured to only keep a week’s worth […]