Dangers of Mixing Native Backups and VSS Backups
In today’s modern world of virtualization there are a lot of different ways to backup databases. You’ve got native backups, VSS backups taken by snapshotting the VMs, third party backup tools which take snapshots, etc. When you have multiple backup techniques all being used at once you run the risk of breaking the LSN chain […]
Recommended reading from mrdenny for September 05, 2014
This week I’ve found some great things for you to read. These are a few of my favorites that I’ve found this week. Dude, who owns that #temp table? Edgenet Exec Q&A TechEd 2014 Day 4 How In-Memory Database Objects Affect Database Design: The Conceptual Model Avoiding a split brain in database mirroring This weeks […]
Stop Following Every Best Practice Document That You Find
There are a lot of best practice documents out there. Some are new, some are older. Some of worth while, others are crap. Some of the older ones were good at the time, but now are meaningless. Recently I was told that this best practices document is the gold standard that people should use. Lets […]
Recommended reading from mrdenny for August 29, 2014
This week I’ve found some great things for you to read. These are a few of my favorites that I’ve found this week. Dude, who owns that #temp table? Avoiding a split brain in database mirroring Failed To Lock Virtual Machine’s Configuration SQL Server 2014 Performance Enhancements The Infinite Space Between Words This weeks SQL […]