by Garland MacNeill | Aug 12, 2019 |
Recently, I was working with a gentleman in our IT department and we were discussing adding redundancy to a couple of SQL Servers that were used for web apps. Turns out, VMware’s disk consolidation can, and will, take a server offline. That tends to make... by Garland MacNeill | Mar 7, 2018 |
I had previously blogged about working on a SQL job that deleted data older than 13 months. Today I thought I would follow up with the database and check to see how much space was available in the database. So I ran a disk usage report out of SSMS and got the... by Garland MacNeill | Jul 16, 2017 |
If you work, or have worked, in a shop with lots of SQL servers then you either have, or will, experience an issue with storage. Like for instance you’re storage controllers go down, knocking down your SQL instances. As we all know, this is a good way to corrupt... by Garland MacNeill | Apr 19, 2017 |
WOW. That’s all I have to say after watching Microsoft’s 4/19 Data AMP Presentation. SQL 2017 is the official name of SQL vNext, otherwise known as SQL on Linux. We knew about SQL on Linux last year, so this isn’t some new revelation. That is, until... by Garland MacNeill | Feb 7, 2017 |
It’s amazing how time seems to fly, especially between blog posts. I’ve known I needed to post a blog for awhile, I’ve even thought of a few different topics. Alas, the execution has not been very good on my part. One of those things I hope to do a...
