When you’re working with resources that are dedicated instances, powerful instances, you can get caught up a bit in the fact that it can take a lot more to trip up those resources than perhaps you’re used to. It’s sort of like flying as the only passenger in an airplane made for commercial flight; there is likely a lot more […]
Author: Stephen Wynkoop
Using Throw-Away Databases, Tables
We’ve been doing some work with a few different database systems that are supported on the different cloud platforms – work where we’re using the databases as either a pre-processing or holding-zone for data that isn’t quite yet ready to be fed into the overall scheme of things for the customers. It was an odd realization that with many of […]
Data Architecture Challenge – “Active Archives”
Perhaps one of the biggest challenges that we’re all working through right now is working with the volumes of data on hand, and maintaining it in a usable way. We’ve been working with a couple of different clients to create ways to either use some of Azure’s Elastic Database approach, or move different information bits to different systems that would […]
Storage Space Costs are Skyrocketing…
At a time when you can have nearly unlimited storage in the cloud, when you can purchase disk space and storage options for pennies on the dollar of what it used to cost, you may consider that the statement that the costs are skyrocketing is, well, silly. The acquisition costs are indeed lower. But the risks and management and administrative […]
You and I, we have a reputation problem…
I’ve been talking to all sorts of folks about speaking for the upcoming virtual conference – and we’ll have a heck of a roster, to be sure. But the thing is, there is a weird pattern emerging. When it comes to talking with people that are deep in the security space, and we’re talking about possible topics, they’re genuinely surprised […]
Basics: Your performance bottleneck may not be what you think it is
Been running into an interesting trend in working on different systems, looking for performance issues, finding things that need to be addressed. Typically it all starts with a client that is confused about the performance they’re seeing after an upgrade that was supposed to fix everything automagically, but doesn’t seem to have accomplished that once completed. There are many, many […]
We’re At A Critical Tipping Point Data Control and Privacy-Wise
This is an incredibly important time in the life of a data professional I believe. These are times that are going to shape exactly what’s expected of us all in terms of data ownership, data protection, data privacy, data security and so-on. All of those things sort of fall under the heading of Data Management, particularly when you consider the two […]
Availability as a Database Security Component?
In trolling around reading up on different thing to do with database security, I came across a graphic (credit: checkmarx.com) that took what I thought was a surprising look at security and what was included in an overall secure model for data. There were limited items – Availability, Integrity, Confidentiality. I won’t go into a lot of specifics, I suspect […]
Keeping It Real – Or Communicating, Without Insulting
One of the things that seems to come up over and over again in talking with data folks is this concept of having to communicate. I’m not saying we’re collectively hermits. What I mean is that it’s difficult to explain complex topics to people that are impacted by them, but sometimes… they just don’t care. They want to get their […]
SQL Server (and IT) and the Experience Differentiator
It’s always funny (to me) to see posts, articles and even overheard and been part of discussions about experienced vs. younger (see what I did there?) DBAs and technical people in general. It seems like so many times the conversation revolves around “keeping up” and staying involved. But it seems to me that there are very clear advantages to all […]