Temptation – When The Cloud Looks Like Heaven (but isn’t…)

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A heaven? A gateway? A hope? Let’s continue the SQL Server Regrets series… The planned next post was about the cloud anyway, my reminder for this post was the really long day a lot of tech folks relying heavily on AWS experienced today… Another cloud-based DNS related outage/wave of interruptions. A heaven….. A hope?- Someone … Read more

SQL Server Backups and the Illusion of Safety: Confusion

With the recent data center fire and missing government data in South Korea, it felt like a good time to continue with the SQL Server Regrets series of blog posts. We’ll talk about the confusion of thinking you are covered for recoverability – when you just aren’t. This “Regret” comes up far too often when … Read more

Our Next Chapter – Welcoming Buck Woody and Launching CDO as a Service

You can also read from Buck in his own words in this post, published here. “Oh, hi, don’t mind us – we’re just having a little conversation about SQL Server. I’m so glad you can join us. There are seats up front here…” That was the first time I ever heard words from Buck Woody … Read more

Speaking at PASS Summit On Tour: NYC

I’ll be speaking on Tuesday, 8/19, at the PASS Summit on tour in New York City. I’ll be giving a talk in the “professional development” world this time.. And I’ll be doing the same session at the PASS Summit in Seattle this fall. This time, rather than talk about SQL Server DBA tips, upgrades, migrations, … Read more

Your Silent Face: The Illusion of the Safety of “Never Patching” Your SQL Servers.

No hearing, or breathing… No movement, no colors… Just silence… Sounds peaceful. Sounds serene. And in a world where entropy didn’t exist, it could even stay that way. That’s not our world, though. Our SQL Servers (in whatever flavor they exist) don’t live in utopia. They live in a world where bad actors are trying … Read more