by David | Feb 23, 2023 | Best Practices
I’m thrilled to announce that the “Architecting Microsoft SQL Server on VMware vSphere” 8.0 best practices guide has been released! I’m pleased to have been able to contribute to this document. This document covers some very positive and...
by David | Nov 25, 2022 | Best Practices, Performance, SQL Server, Storage
We all (should) know that running SQL Server in hyperconverged virtual environments, both on-premises and in the cloud, has some interesting trade-offs. The biggest is write latency from the hyperconverged storage platform underneath the database. We find that write...
by David | Nov 15, 2022 | Technology
I’m proud to be a part of the SQL Server communities globally. I do everything I can do to give back when I can. Too many times, I feel that DBAs think that infrastructure is not their problem, and the challenges I face in day-to-day consulting demonstrate this....
by David | Jun 25, 2022 | Announcements, Best Practices, Cloud, Performance, SQL Server, Storage, Virtualization
You’re invited! I’m thrilled to be co-presenting a session on the top five SQL Server virtual machine performance tuning tips with our friends at Sanity Solutions on July 21st at 10am Mountain time. Virtualized SQL Servers are the norm these days, but...
by David | May 18, 2022 | Best Practices, SQL Server, Technology, Virtualization
We’ve been tracking a weird state with SQL Server virtual machines on VMware and possible warnings on database corruption while VM backups are running, largely centered around (but not isolated to) the tempdb database. TLDR: We’ve now got a VMware KB...
by David | May 17, 2022 | Best Practices, Business, Events, Professional Development, SQL Server
I am thrilled to have been a part of this year’s Storage Field Day 23 event, held by Gestalt IT during the first week of March. This event is a series of vendor-led technical presentations where technologists like myself can ask hard questions so that we can...
