by David | Sep 18, 2023 | Best Practices, Business, SQL Server
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...
by David | Aug 25, 2023 | Events, Personal, Professional Development, SQL Server
Are you bummed that you can’t attend the PASS Data Community Summit conference in-person this November during the week of November 13? There’s lots of reasons to be there, but sometimes life tends to get in the way. Finances, travel and distance, family or...
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 | Jun 27, 2023 | Announcements, Business, Cloud, Events, SQL Server, Technology
Heraflux is returning to deliver a new webinar with Rubrik and ActualTech Media titled “How to Secure Your Azure SQL Data.” With Azure SQL Server offerings continuing to grow in popularity, customers are looking to prevent ransomware attacks by securing data from...
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 | 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...