I'll second the reliability of a Synology NAS.  I've got a DS218+ set up with a pair of mirrored WD RED 10TB drives which has been running continuously for over...

I've found that doing and creating things in the physical world is critical to my mental health.  Working in IT the vast majority of my work hours are spent doing...

What we are doing on the process control side is setting up a local VMWare appliance to handle all the Windows and Linux servers in that realm.  HP and Dell...

I have some fond memories of getting out the screwdriver to deal with the big pile of boxes from Compaq.  Was never officially my job, but the server build guys...

"My employer created an "Innovation Hub" on our Intranet where people could submit ideas, a committee would rank them for value and feasibility, and a small dedicated team would implement...

I can't think of a way to do it natively that would be robust enough that I would trust it for a production application.  Something like hand coded triggers on...

My company did a wholesale move to the cloud in 2015-2018.  We closed down all five North American data centers and did a lift and shift of everything that was...

Building on what Jeffrey says...  You can have the new alias set up in AD prior to the migration pointed at the existing cluster.  That gives you time to migrate...

For better or worse I have a large collection of old tech in my home office.  I've got at least four iPods, three Zunes, half a dozen no-name MP3 players,...

After the vendor stated there is no support for running that version of their application on a version of SQL later than SQL2012, the application support team set up a...

I spent much of the first half of this year doing upgrades to get off SQL2012.  Was mostly successful by the deadline, the exception being about 25 servers which were...

Our line has always been the loss of extended support.   We've got enough prepaid support hours built into our enterprise agreement to cover the once every three years or so...

In SSMS I dream of having the MSX / Multi Server Administration "Manage Target Servers" window to be resizable, like just about every other window in SSMS.  It has been...

A timely article.  I woke up this morning to discover my home office router had locked up overnight.  Turning it off and then on again restored functionality (seems I have...

We've got a series of questions we go through whenever we are interviewing a new potential DBA (hasn't happened in awhile).   There are a few "how would you do this"...