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Doubling Down on Database Performance Management

How many applications do you use every day? On average, probably 20. Think about it—We use them to check email, to avoid traffic, to know if we need a coat,…

Your Disaster Recovery Strategy Is Useless If Your SQL Server Backups Haven’t Been Tested

It has been drilled into every DBA’s head to backup, backup, backup. We understand that it is not a matter of if we need to restore a database but when…

How to Implement Multi-Tenancy with SQL Server (Part 3)

So far in my “Multi-Tenancy with SQL Server” series, I’ve covered an introduction to multi-tenancy and approaches for implementing it with SQL Server. In an ideal world, we have a…

Skip the Blame Game—Go Straight to the Data

You can tell the quality of a group, department, or organization not by how things go during the good times, but how they go during the challenging times. It doesn’t…

Monitoring the Microsoft Data Platform with SQL Sentry: Introduction

Day in and day out, the SentryOne Professional Services team improves the lives of our customers, both new and long-time users alike, by teaching them how to leverage the powerful…

Schrems II: Invalidating the EU-US Privacy Shield Framework

Legal disclaimer: I am not a lawyer and the content in this article does not constitute legal advice. Consult your legal department to determine the steps your organization should take…

Premier Support from SentryOne

SentryOne technical support has been something special since inception. Most support cases are straightforward with a quick turnaround. The other 20% of support cases require more attention. It is refreshing…

No, You Still Don’t Need a Blockchain

A couple of years ago, I wrote about why you don’t need a blockchain. Blockchain is one long transaction log that always gets written to and is never backed up.…

Why Investing in Open Source Is Valuable to ISVs

Open source is a fact of life at most organizations today. Even if you don’t directly publish open-source software, you are almost certainly using it. If you or your company…

Strategies for Staying at the Same Company Long Term

On Being a Lifer If you look at my bio, you might notice I have been at SentryOne for 9 years. That is a mini lifetime in tech. I like…