Database

The focus of data protection has changed. Backups and data recovery used to exist primarily to protect against human error or natural disaster. The focus was on recovering from an…

We’ve talked about building a culture, why it applies to all data environments, and some specific types of data protection features you should be considering.  Today, we’ll be considering the culture of protection the…

In my last post, we talked about the different types of databases available on the market for you to choose from. With over 300 options, it is hard to know…

As I explained in previous posts on building a culture of data protection, we in the technology world must embrace data protection by design. To Reward, We Must Measure. How…

If you work in engineering or support, you’ve probably spent a lot of time troubleshooting things. You’ve probably spent just as much time trying to figure out why things were…

IEEE ProComm 2018 Recently, I attended the IEEE ProComm 2018 conference in Toronto. I had the opportunity to hear about research and ideas involving professional communication. This was exciting for…

I wrote a couple of “definitions and nuances” posts about terminology in databases recently (cardinality, selectivity), and today I want to write one about cardinality in monitoring, as opposed to…

I wrote recently about database cardinality, and there’s a closely related topic that is equally confusing and I want to explain too: index selectivity. Index selectivity is how tightly a…

OK, so a million is a little bit of an exaggeration, but there are tons of cool features inside our SentryOne solutions that I find a lot of our customers…

I’ve been working with SQL Server since what seems like forever ++1. The truth is I haven’t been a production DBA in more than 6 years (I work in marketing now,…