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During Your SQL Server Upgrade – Upgrading SQL Server Webinar Episode 3
This article is part of our SQL Server Upgrades Made Easy series: Why Upgrade? Before You Upgrade During Your Upgrade After Your Upgrade Recap Chat Upgrading SQL Server - Week 3 "During Your Upgrade SQL Server"You can watch week one here on the blog or directly on...
Before you Upgrade Your SQL Server – SQL Server Upgrade Webinar Episode 2
This article is part of our SQL Server Upgrades Made Easy series: Why Upgrade? Before You Upgrade During Your Upgrade After Your Upgrade Recap Chat Upgrading SQL Server - Week 2 "Before you Upgrade SQL Server"You can watch week one here on the blog or directly on...
“Basic” Availability Groups – Some Rumors Persist
I was having a twitter interaction the other day. Since High Availability and Disaster Recovery topics are on my mind as I just wrapped up delivering an online class on SQL Server HA/DR last week and am preparing for my next free webinar series talking about HA/DR,...
DBAs Beware: “Hacker destroys VFEmail service, wipes backups”
My headline is borrowed from a headline on Malwarebytes blog post. In fact, many headlines like it are across the internet right now. This post is going to sound fairly similar to an earlier post I published, "Ex-Admin Deletes All Customer Data and Wipes Servers"....
Why Upgrade SQL Server? SQL Server Upgrade Webinar Episode 1
This article is part of our SQL Server Upgrades Made Easy series: Why Upgrade? Before You Upgrade During Your Upgrade After Your Upgrade Recap Chat Upgrading SQL Server - Week 1 "Why, Why, Why!" This is the first video from the series from two weeks ago. This is an...
Tara’s favorite SQL Server 2012+ Feature
If you're still on SQL Server 2008/2008 R2, you're missing out on some great features. It's no secret that Availability Groups are my favorite feature since SQL Server 2012. Back in the day, I was supporting complex environments with aggressive SLAs. On one particular...
What do YOU want to learn about?
I just finished the first week of our SQL Server Upgrade webinar series webinars. It went well. In fact - I'm pumped up! Because the interactions were significant, the feedback was good, and I think my primary goal is going to be reached - help people out. It's funny...
SQL Server 2008 is Dead…
... Long live that other SQL Server version you should have upgraded from long ago ... It's January of 2019. 2019 and I'm writing a post reminding you that you it is time to upgrade from SQL Server 2008 or SQL Server 2008 R2!! Eleven years later.. That's a testament...
Hey DBAs: Be Prepared
I'm a big fan of bringing ideas and concept in from other industries to the world of technologists, particularly those of us in professions operating in and around data. I've written posts before about lessons from aviation, a string of failures at the Secret Service,...
Welcome Tara Kizer!
So you probably saw the announcement from our friend Brent Ozar last week. He's going to be focusing on his really cool training and tools and a bit less on consulting. When that announcement came, it didn't take very long for a couple people on the team to nudge me...
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