by David | Nov 16, 2020 | Best Practices, Cloud, Performance, SQL Server, Tech Video
Have you ever cringed when you received your monthly cloud bill? Does it feel like you’re overpaying for your cloud services, but don’t know how to reduce your monthly cloud spend? In this video, I am revealing the secret to save on cloud costs that vendors...
by David | Mar 19, 2020 | Cloud, SQL Server, Technology
I’ve talked for months now about the ability to run SQL Server on the Linux platform. For those of you interested in exploring the benefits of this platform, you’re in luck! Microsoft has pre-built images ready to go on the Azure cloud, running SQL Server...
by David | Mar 1, 2018 | Cloud, Technology
You might have noticed that I’ve been pretty quiet as of late. We’re working on a super top secret internal project here at my company, and we’ve got the need to ingest a LOT of data around the clock for some analytics work. My preferred DBMS is, of...
by David | Jan 8, 2014 | Best Practices, Cloud, Performance, Technology, Virtualization
For those of you with your mission-critical servers already virtualized on a VMware-based virtual infrastructure, are you using the VMware Paravirtual SCSI driver to boost your I/O performance by an average of 12%? I use it for all of my I/O intensive virtual...
by David | Dec 30, 2013 | Cloud, Performance, SQL Server, Technology, Virtualization
Jonathan Kehayias (b | t ) posted a fantastic write up today on VMware’s vNUMA interactions when the operating system feature ‘CPU hot plug’ is enabled over at SQLPerformance.com. I’ve been mulling around ideas for a similar post but he...
by David | Sep 3, 2013 | Business, Cloud, Events, Performance, Personal, Professional Development, SQL Server, Storage, Technology, User Groups, Virtualization
If you live life in the manner that I do, life is all about change and self-improvement. To me, life in technology means constantly keeping up with the exceptionally rapid evolution of the IT industry. This constant change has helped drive me personally and...
