Know Thy Platform

IT and data professionals, I implore you – know thy platform. All of it. Not just the layer your job is tasked with. Modern public cloud (or any infrastructure for that matter) platforms means there’s more to it than just one layer. Here’s an example from just...

SQL Server query runtime is not everything

SQL Server query developers, listen up! Query execution time is not everything you should be worried about. You need to examine the parse and compilation time for each of your queries too. When you run a query, the SQL Server engine executes it. You get a runtime in...

Data Platform SLAs

Database professionals of the world – I have a question. Has your organization defined service level agreements (SLAs) for your data estate? I’m talking specifically the Recovery Point Objective (RPO) and Recovery Time Objective (RTO), and to have these defined not in...