Performance tuning can be daunting but rewarding - I love making systems go faster due to my changes. This is a topic where it really helps to have an understanding...

Interesting - I am glad you posted this article. Makes me think: "Who Watches the Watchmen?"

Outside of rare legal reasons I think most database restores will be somewhat contemporary - hopefully close to the present as we can.

The right to be forgotten is...

I'm breaking the trend because I don't have and cannot make pictures right now - sorry!

2 things jump to mind:
* Dilbert comics - for years I have...

I look at this in a few different ways. Here are my thoughts:

The majority of IT / engineers are doing their job and going home. Nothing wrong with...

I like to check by:
DBCC DBINFO ('MyDbName') WITH TABLERESULTS

Search the field column in the output for dbo_dbccLastKnownGood for the datetime stamp value.

Tone matters in the sense that sometimes the way the message is communicated is just as important or more important than the content of the message itself. Also depends on...

Going to learn Power BI....be right back

I can more easily see SQL Server running on Linux in the cloud vs on premise. The main driver is the cost and staff you will need. Linux system administrators...

It is a truism that security is best done as a layer set of actions. I think at certain levels redundancy of security is necessary. Perimeter isn't enough either -...