We use some 3rd party products, but will always lean towards the MS solution if there is one.  Even if not as good, any MS solution is always going to...

"I will be interested to know whether this is a very common approach of designing an architecture"

In my experience it doesn't seem that uncommon in old applications, but it really...

My ~30 year career in IT has been with a company whose products are not software.  In that kind of environment I've worked with many people without degrees who were...

My employment record is a bit of an outlier in that I have close to 30 years in IT at the same employer.  Part of that longevity can be attributed...

For home sound system receivers I typically go with Yamaha.  Excellent sound, but their interfaces are probably the most nonintuitive and cryptic you will ever find where the directions are...

As somebody who spent a good chunk of his adult life in IT supporting the paper industry, I can say that per capita  paper consumption is down dramatically from previous...

That is an application (or application client) running local on the server with SQL.  The  "NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM" indicates it is running as a service as Local System.  Looking through the...

I don't think a linked server to SAP HANA is an option.  At least is wasn't for us.  I forget weather it was performance issues or that SAP just wouldn't...

Been a few years since I've done a multi-restore version upgrade, but there was a couple years where it happened often enough that I had a virtual box spun up...

My employer standardizes on Dell for everything.  Aside from the "Dell Tax" the only complaints I've ever had with them are a spat of bad batteries 5-6 years ago which...

We were in on the Beta for the managed instances service as we had several groups quite excited about it.  Having just completed a lift and shift of five datacenters...

My current home / work setup is dual LG 27" monitors attached to a KVM switch connected to my home and work laptops (monitors are running at 1080 so not...

If your cloud is Azure.....

Another thing to look at is weather you are exceeding the maximum I/O throughput threshold for either the VM or the destination disk for your backups. ...

"A common theme is that there is a minimum number of people needed for a support rota.  Below that and you risk burn-outs and resignations."

Definitely.  In the 2007-2009 timeframe our...

Our DBA team supports 24/7 production facilities so we definitely have an on call rotation.  We organize our systems so each has a primary and backup DBA.  When an after...