by David | Sep 10, 2021 | Announcements, Best Practices, Business, Cloud, Events, Performance, Personal, Professional Development, SQL Server, Storage
I’m thrilled to announce my preconference training session ahead of this year’s virtual PASS Data Community Summit, held during the week of November 8-12, 2021. This event is available for registration at https://passdatacommunitysummit.com. I’ll see...
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 22, 2021 | Best Practices, Cloud, Events, Performance, SQL Server, Storage, Technology, Virtualization
I’m thrilled to be presenting with Deji Akomolafe a new session at this year’s VMworld 2021 conference called “Virtualization Microsoft SQL Server on vSphere – Stories from the Trenches” (session number MCL1318). Virtualizing Microsoft...
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...
by David | Jun 8, 2021 | Cloud, Performance, Storage, Tech Video, Virtualization
With the rise of Kubernetes and other completely cloud-based deployments, on-premises data centers seem to be on the way out to make way for the scalability and dynamism of the cloud. Innovations in data center and AI composability showcased by Xilinx and Micron...
by David | Feb 23, 2021 | Best Practices, Performance, Storage, Technology, Virtualization
After doing some digging today with a Client, we hit a roadblock on something that I need to share with using the NVMe virtual disk controller on the VMware ESXi 6.5 and above platform. If you’re using this vDisk controller, you cannot expand or add virtual...
