Interesting Lessons Learned in the Cloud As we’ve been going through this conversion of SSWUG.org to a new model and platform, we’ve been converting just about everything along the way to new systems, new databases, new front- and back-end technologies. It’s been a very complex project, by far the most complex I’ve worked through with the site in the entire […]

Where Does Responsibility Land with a Data Breach? I read an article today, the first of these that I had then seen posted on the AP wire site. Essentially, there has been a massive, comprehensive data breach of systems containing all sorts of information – personally identifiable in the most damaging ways – for current and past federal employees. We’re […]

Bursting to the Cloud In SQL Server 2016, we’ll be seeing some pretty incredible features that will fully integrate cloud and hybrid cloud solutions. One of those is bursting to the cloud – when additional capacity is needed, it’ll be possible to dynamically extend to Azure in real-time. This is a fantastic feature, full stop. I think it will relieve […]

Heads up: SQL Server 2014 SP1 On Hold If you started the process of testing and getting read to install SP1, you’ll want to hold off. There are some issues with it that Microsoft will be addressing in a re-release of the service pack as soon as they’re ready. In the meantime, hold off on the installation and/or testing. Here’s […]

Where Do You See Biggest Tuning Challenges? When you’re working with your databases, do you see the areas you go after for tuning and for performance in general changing? There have been more and more instances where we’re working with people on tweaking installations where the specific areas to consider are getting… fuzzier. This comes from the fact that so […]

Hybrid Database Environments I had lots of great feedback on the types of environments that people are working with. My specific question, I *thought* in the editorial earlier this week had to do with multiple database platforms. Microsoft, Oracle, DB2, yes. But also the relative newcomers to the scene. Things like Hadoop and others. What are you all facing, and […]

Hybrid Database Environments: How do you choose? As we look into different pieces that we want to deploy on sswug (more on this at a later date when we have stuff to show), we’re faced with the opportunity to consider and re-consider the base technologies that drive the site. I’m curious how you choose. What is your process for making […]

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Cloud Use Changing – Bursting? Paul Zikopoulos of IBM has been talking about both the "now" of cloud usage and the future look at how things will lean on the cloud for different types or modes of functionality. The concept is started here in this article, but I think there are a few interesting and important takeaways in this whole […]

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