by David | Feb 22, 2024 | Best Practices, Cloud, Performance, SQL Server, Storage
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...
by David | Jan 21, 2024 | Best Practices, Cloud, Performance, SQL Server
You might be able to shave off thousands – or more – in your monthly cloud bills for your critical SQL Servers, all while maintaining or even improving performance. Public cloud providers charge organizations for everything they deploy, and while a few items in the...
by David | Jul 7, 2023 | Best Practices, Business, Cloud, Performance, Professional Development, SQL Server, Storage, Tech Video, Technology, Virtualization
My SQL Server on VMware Accelerator boot camp video series is now live on Youtube! There’s no strings attached and no price of entry, so now there’s no reason why you can’t join me in this adventure to learn more about how to performance and...
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 | Jul 29, 2021 | Best Practices, Cloud, Performance, SQL Server, Storage, Technology
I’m thrilled to have recently released a video with Microsoft’s Data Exposed on Channel 9 where I discuss setting up Linux storage appropriate for on-demand disk expansion for your production SQL Server on Linux workloads. I’ve been working with...
by David | Jul 8, 2021 | Best Practices, Performance, SQL Server, Storage, Technology
Do you have quite large MDF files on your database? By large, I mean hundreds of gigabytes (or larger). Have you ever noticed that your SQL Server disk stall metrics for these data files are much higher than the storage latency metrics exhibited on the underlying...