Sometimes people are annoyed by the term ‘Database DevOps’. Why not call it simply ‘DevOps’? After all, Database DevOps follows the same core principles.
The answer is simple: implementing DevOps is tricky by itself, but most teams are set up to fail when it comes to implementing DevOps for databases. This makes it worth defining as a specialization.
Sometimes you keep a classic around.
Will cloud services render DBAs obsolete? Does the cloud mean that developers will use less of SQL Server? In this post I talk about the future of database administration and give tips on strategizing your career.
It’s a big week for SQL Server! And it’s the perfect week to talk about this week’s question, which is about explaining to your management why it’s worth it to upgrade to SQL Server 2016, and which features you can use right away.
What tools in SQL Server will notify you about blocking and help track the queries behind your toughest blocking and deadlocking problems?
You finally got approval to move to new hardware and a fresher version of SQL Server. After months of work, you do the migration and then… performance gets worse. What can cause this, and what do you look for?
You’re setting up SQL Server log shipping for disaster recovery. What else do you need to do to best prepare for a failure?
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