Database protection goes far beyond backups; ensuring the quality and consistency of those backups is equally important. Here are the maintenance tasks that will make sure your databases stay in top shape.
- By Joey D'Antoni
- 11/16/2020
Ignite 2020 saw the public preview of Azure Arc enabled data services, the latest step in Microsoft's bid to demystify multicloud. Principal program manager Travis Wright explains how it works.
- By Joey D'Antoni
- 09/29/2020
In the second part of this series, Joey describes the methods that Microsoft uses to manage code rollouts, and how it detects hardware and software problems on Azure SQL.
- By Joey D'Antoni
- 09/10/2020
Microsoft promises 99.995 percent uptime for the Azure SQL platform, which is incredible. In the first of a two-part series, Joey takes an close look at the infrastructure that supports high availability in Azure database services.
- By Joey D'Antoni
- 09/08/2020
First introduced in SQL Server 2012, columnstore indexes can give you major performance gains -- provided you have the right workloads. Here's how columnstore indexes work and what types of data work best with them.
- By Joey D'Antoni
- 07/22/2020
Joey explains why it's worth it to endure a little inconvenience for the long-term benefits of a password manager and multifactor authentication.
- By Joey D'Antoni
- 06/29/2020
An open source project gives DBAs the ability to channel PowerShell for automating and scaling complex SQL Server tasks, starting with the most basic: database backups.
- By Joey D'Antoni
- 05/13/2020
There are plenty of ways to get the most out of SQL Server without just upgrading to the latest version. For database admins working with older (maybe much older) SQL Server systems, here are four ways to make life easier.
- By Joey D'Antoni
- 02/10/2020
Ransomware affects databases in very specific ways. Joey describes the mechanics of a SQL Server ransomware attack, what DBAs can do to protect their systems, and what security measures they should be advocating for.
- By Joey D'Antoni
- 01/21/2020
Microsoft has clarified the more confusing elements of SQL Server licensing and extended major benefits to customers. The catch is that Software Assurance is required to take advantage of them.
- By Joey D'Antoni
- 11/08/2019
From Big Data clusters to faster database recovery, here are the biggest changes Microsoft has made to its new flagship database server.
- By Joey D'Antoni
- 11/04/2019
Microsoft's portfolio of PaaS databases has grown way beyond Azure SQL. Here are its most important cloud-based database services, and exactly how each one works differently from the other.
- By Joey D'Antoni
- 09/16/2019