The Problem with Processing at Light Speed We’ve come so far with being able to work with data loads, figure out what we target to learn and then be processing those workflows at break-neck speed. It’s really quiet remarkable how quickly information can be processed, especially once you’ve identified the processes and rules you want to apply. Of course the […]

Big Data Ethics and DBAs For many, many years we’ve spent time here on SSWUG.org talking about ethics. We even went so far as to create a community-based code of ethics for DBAs. It went repeatedly through many revisions and has "rested" since. (Here’s a link to the finalized look at the statement) Wired just published an interesting article on […]

What Do You Think of Hybrid Environments? I have been working with several different people setting up hybrid environments. With pieces on-premise, and pieces in the cloud, it gets pretty interesting very quickly. There are a number of things I’ve learned, and one ruling that has just been issued certainly weighs heavily on configuration thoughts. First, something that is becoming […]

Is Your SharePoint Installation In Need of a Brush-Up? The interesting thing is that many companies are using SharePoint for their own systems and to facilitate collaboration and all of the great things you can gain from a rock-solid SharePoint installation. Turns out a majority of companies have installations of SharePoint, but many aren’t quite there yet on getting what […]

More Choices! Wait, Fewer Choices! More options! More granularity! More features, but let me choose… OK, here you go. Wait… too much. That’s a bit how I feel about how things are shaking out with cloud licensing for SQL Server (and other services too, but I’m picking on SQL Server for this…) It’s really great to see how many different […]

This webcast is today – I’ll be the host. Will you join us? Facing a System Rebuild? There have been a few times in life when I’ve had to go through rebuilding the world – re-creating a server from scratch due to a system failure. It wasn’t much fun, and it was painful. You have different backups in different places, […]

More to DR than Just Databases…. When you look at the recoverability of your systems you quickly find that it’s not just about database backups. It’s more about system rebuilds and the ability to bring things back online as a whole, not just data-wise. If you’re curious what it takes, and how to better manage it, I hope you’ll join […]

SQL Server Agility … and more I’m excited to be hosting the webcast with DH2i – we’ll have a couple of outstanding presenters talking about things you need to think about, points to consider and some solutions when it comes to building out SQL Server solutions that help you support your high availability requirements, even moving beyond clustering, mirroring and […]

How is Your Cloud Usage? Are you spending what you expected on your cloud implementation? This really comes to light when you consider some of the newer features of SQL Server, specifically the ability to backup to the cloud and to put data files on the cloud as well. These types of things can really lead to surprising utilization of […]

Shifts Suggest Traditional Admin Roles Changing Dramatically A really big change is hitting the Microsoft system admin space in a recent departure from the teams. (Read more about it here – the departure of Wally Mead). The reason this is so critical and interesting involves a few things that seem to me to be coming together. First, the change to […]