SQL Server, Azure SQL Database, Amazon RDS & AWS, Oracle and IBM Help
We’re about to undertake a mission to move some databases to a PaaS environment from a SQL Server database server. Sizing is proving to be more art than science thus far… I think sometimes that SQL Server folks invented the consulting response of “it depends.” It’s the catch-all response when someone asks “how long…” or “how much…” or “why is […]
Interesting survey came out about cloud plans – while I’m sure our audience is somewhat biased, I’m curious what others think of the findings. Specifically, in a nutshell, the findings were that Azure is overtaking AWS in terms of environment of choice where there is a preference. This last bit I thought was intriguing. I haven’t personally been able to […]
I had originally asked about the success/failure of rebuiding due to trying to implement new technology, new approaches, ideas, etc. Here’s a link to the original post In our own work, our experience with our own systems and with customers has been that this is one of the hardest projects to succeed in putting together. There are so many variables […]
It’s not difficult, you don’t have to be a professional writer (though you will instantly be one) and we’d love to work with you… SSWUG is all about sharing lessons learned, things that happen in the field, thoughts about where things are going, etc. All of those things that impact someone working with data platforms. We’re actively seeking authors, presenters, […]
Have you worked with any machine-learning scenarios? With SQL Server? There are so many options and opportunities for starting work with SQL Server in particular and with interesting data flows in general. It’s a bit overwhelming the types of things you can do – from working across database platforms to analyze information to machine learning right in the SQL Server […]
Things are really rolling along with the SSWUG virtual conference prep – the FREE event is open for registrations – and we are very excited about the sessions and information we’re bring you, free. Register here, on our expedited registration page. When people think of virtual conferences from others, they think “oh, great. I’ll sit through promotional sessions talking about […]
There are so many hacks going on – in a big, general sense, and yet the news and information about these seems to me to be less and less prominent. I was reading around security, databases, all of that which we beat up pretty regularly here on SSWUG – and realizing that there are a good number of headlines kind […]
Has there been a time where you had to change out the schema, security, views, etc. associated with an established application? I ask because with new technologies, new techniques, increasing security needs and the like, along with just flat learning better ways to do things, sometimes it’s nothing short of a re-architecting situation. We’ve worked through situations like this where […]
Definitions and functionality expectations seem to be all over the board for what makes up a private vs. public cloud infrastructure solution. It seems like everywhere you look you see all sorts of defintions – particularly for private cloud. Is a private cloud a VPC hosted on a public cloud provider’s system? Is it on-premises “cloud-type” solutions where your users […]
Having the pre-considered controls and processes in place for your information is more and more important every day. While I’m no fan of the 999 page specification, I am in favor of having spent the mental time on things prior to needing them. This is true of disaster recovery, it’s true of management of systems. Data governance is just a […]