Disk Encryption Do you need Disk Encryption? Let’s ask a few questions? Do you have a laptop you carry with information you would not like for others to obtain? Do you have complete security on all of your workstations containing protected information? Do you have servers that may be decommissioned without destroying all sensitive information? These are all scenarios we […]

Online Data SAN Configuration When configuring a SAN for online services such as OLTP or OLAP databases there are so many different options to choose from. Many SAN servers are configured with a large amount of Cache resulting in acceptable performance regardless of disk configuration. On these larger SANs you may find a single RAID 5 or RAID 10 physical […]

SSWUGtv With Stephen Wynkoop In this episode: Avoiding surprises with your SQL Server configuration… who is changing what? Raj Sabhlok of ManageEngine on the show to talk about more holistic monitoring of your servers, plus Laura Rose with time management tips. Watch the Show The Devil is in the Details In response to our editorial yesterday I received the following […]

SSWUGtv: Avoiding surprises with your SQL Server configuration… who is changing what? Raj Sabhlok of ManageEngine on the show to talk about more holistic monitoring of your servers, plus Laura Rose with time management tips. [Watch the Show] Raid with DB In response to Accidental DBA editorial Adam asks,” Could you please send some article about RAID, main problems of […]

Reader Interaction In the editorial today we have interesting responses from our readers on the topics of Cloud Integration and Accidental DBA. Cloud Integration Frank: first thanks for your ongoing insights via SSWUG. Last was about cloud integration. One solution to integrate SQL (and other on premise applications) with the cloud is data replication. What do you think about this […]