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...
by David | May 4, 2022 | Best Practices, Business, Events, Performance
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...
by David | Apr 26, 2022 | Best Practices, Performance
Have you ever wondered why Windows Server doesn’t show disk performance metrics in Task Manager, but your Windows 10/11 OS does? It’s a really silly difference. Let’s fix that. Open PowerShell or the command prompt with administrative permissions....
by David | Feb 28, 2022 | Best Practices, Performance, SQL Server, Storage, Virtualization
I’m thrilled to be presenting a new session on SQL Server-on-VMware storage performance tuning as part one of four in the ActualTech Media Expert webinar series this Friday, March 4, at 11am Central time. Any change that you make in SQL Server — be it...
by David | Jan 29, 2022 | Best Practices, Cloud, Events, Professional Development, SQL Server, User Groups
I am looking forward to presenting to the Ohio North Database Training User Group this Tuesday, February 1st, starting at 4:00pm CST. It is exciting for me to kickoff another year of virtual presentations to my fellow SQL Server Data Professionals looking to...
