Very interesting things are happening with updates, features, new directions and such for SQL Server. At last, we’re working with real-world, information about how SQL Server is used, what types of things it’s coming up against in that usage and what types of issues are being seen. How? With Azure. There’s a great post on RedmondMag.com that starts to explore […]
Author: Stephen Wynkoop
Critical Data Recovery is Multi-Faceted
Yesterday, the post was about cyber-attack recovery. Talking about the need for a more comprehensive recovery mechanism and approach than just “restore to the most recent backup.” As mentioned, this also applies to failover systems. In many cases, people will put in failover systems (or cloud-based services that are highly unlikely to go down) and figure they’re covered. But the […]
Cyber-Attack Recovery – Are You Ready?
Many times when folks are planning for recovery of a system, it’s because they anticipate that the system will crash or will be unavailable in a fairly traditional way. (Is there a traditional way for a system to crash???) However, as I was reading a post about the premise that the “Majority of banks [are] still vulnerable to cyber attacks” […]
When Does AI Start Threatening Data Security?
There was an interesting post in the Daily Mail about AI and phishing attacks. Essentially, they were saying that future cyber attacks for phishing and such could be driven by AI. AI could get so intelligent that it was able to assume the identity of people you work with and are used to corresponding with, could mimic them based on […]
The Morphing DBA Responsibilities
One of the things that pundits (do DBAs and data professionals really have pundits?) like to talk about is the demise of the DBA. What with managed services, automation (autonomous administration) and tuning, security and all of that – combined with better administrative models for backup and recovery and those types of things – all of this comes together to […]
Interesting Things Happening with Databases as a Resource
A quick check of the news and posts about what people (particularly municipalities) are doing or planning for databases will show that there are indeed big plans. From better gun purchase background checks to military participation in adding names to watch lists for criminal activity to gang affiliations and much, much more One of these that was a little surprising […]
How Did You Learn About That?
Do you have a great tip or idea or passion for working with data? Do you have a product or service that you’d like the world to know about? Free? We’re off and running for the SSWUG Virtual Conference for May and I wanted to ask; how did you learn that really cool trick, technique or approach when working with […]
Is Cloud Storage the New USB Key?
There’s been a disturbing trend in several security incidents of late where people lose control of bits of information that are, essentially, left lying around. This happens with storage in the cloud – you set up a quick container on the service of choice, push a copy of your files to the storage area… “just for the time being” and […]
Surprises to Consider for (Cloud) Integration
All of this talk about considerations for moving your database to a new SQL Server (be it the cloud or on-premises) brings up a number of questions about your systems, how they’re set up and running and what types of things you need from a potential update to the infrastructure. There are many outlier type situations that, while they’re critical […]
When Is Your Database Ready to Consider the Cloud?
I read an interesting post about moving your database to the cloud (or, rather, hybrid cloud) and was surprised about the elements the writer chose to determine whether your database is a candidate for that type of infrastructure. (Here’s a link to the post) It’s hard to determine just what elements are most critical to considering a move to the […]