One of our customers (and friends!) sent us this last week – a stark reminder why hardware redundancy is a good idea!
The controller card in one of his servers literally blew up at 7.15am Tuesday morning. Although they didn't have redundant hardware, they were back online by 9am – pretty good going. Funnily enough they've been considering clustering for a while now…
(Posted with permission.)
It’s quite common for a company that experiences a corruption-causing disaster, but has no valid backups to restore from and no ability to fail over
I thought it was bad previously, but in 2026 I’ve noticed a big rise in emails trying to scam me into clicking a link –
There are a huge number of best practices around SQL Server performance tuning – I could easily write a whole book on the topic, especially
Jonathan had a client issue recently where SQL Server’s buffer pool had been forced down to a ridiculously small size, only a few hundred MB,
(This post first appeared on SQLperformance.com four years ago as part of a blog series, before that website was mothballed later in 2022 and the
One of the easiest ways to increase query performance in SQL Server is to make sure that it can quickly access the requested data, and
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