There are many articles online describing SQL Server data compression. In this post I will summarize some of the salient points.
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Category: SQL Server
SQL Server on VMware Best Practices – How to Optimize the Architecture
A couple of months ago, VMware released a new white paper called “Architecting Microsoft SQL Server on VMware vSphere”. Published in August 2018, it spells out the best practices for running SQL Server on vSphere. Twenty years ago VMware launched and forever changed the compute world.
SQL Server and VMware go together like peanut butter and jelly. Read on to look into the details…
T-SQL Tuesday #108 – Penguins and Snakes
How to Analyze the SQL Server Error Log
The SQL Server Error Log is one of the most useful thing to troubleshoot database server issues. System errors get logged here along with a host of other useful information.
Read on to see how to understand, analyze, and manage the SQL Server Error Log…
T-SQL Tuesday #107 Round Up: Death March Project
Last week I invited you to share a story of a project gone mad – a death march project that you participated in or were impacted by.
If you haven’t already read the invitation please read it first: T-SQL Tuesday #107 Invitation: Death March
Now let’s see a summary of this month’s submissions!
I’m Speaking – SQL Saturday Charlotte 2018!
On Saturday October 20th I will be speaking at SQL Saturday Charlotte on the topic of Database Corruption! Preventing Disaster to your Database.
Hope to see you there!
T-SQL Tuesday #107 – My Death March Project
This month I have the honor of hosting T-SQL Tuesday #107 about Death March Projects. The topic for this months T-SQL Tuesday #107 (hosted by yours truly Blog/Twitter) is:
“Tell me your project horror stories – the worse the better”
Through some redaction, slight change of facts, and creative control with some details I will protect the innocent; and in this case, the guilty as well.
If you don’t have time to read my lengthy exposition then please skip down to the section titled “The Making of a Death March Project”.
T-SQL Tuesday #107 Invitation: Death March
There is a famous book in our field written in the 2000’s by Ed Yourdon called “Death March“. In it he details the phenomenon in project management of death march software projects. He observed a trend in organizations who plan software projects to estimate so poorly that completion becomes overwhelming and unlikely.
More companies than ever before could be considered “software companies”. Project planning hasn’t gotten much better over time and we still have terribly managed projects. The best reason to explain this I found on Quora – Why are software development task estimations regularly off by a factor of 2-3? In particular, read the answer by Michael Wolfe midway through the page. It is both a humorous and scary analogy.
On this month of Halloween we are going to discuss our death march project horrors!
Stop and Think Before You Shrink – Shrinking a SQL Server Database
I like Halloween so I find myself getting mentally ready each year about a couple of months prior. My mind turns to horrors and I must warn wary travelers in DBA-land about an evil I see all too often – shrinking a database.
I know this has been done to death but I still see it. Gather around the fire as I tell you the ills of shrinking database files.
I’m Speaking – SQL Saturday San Diego 2018!
On Saturday September 22nd I will be speaking at SQL Saturday San Diego presenting on 2 fun topics:
- Database Corruption! Preventing Disaster to your Database
- Environmental SQL Server Troubleshooting
Read on about my presentations…