Top 7 Things Every DBA Should Do Before They Go On Holiday
12/19/17 Everybody wants to take a relaxing holiday from time to time, whether you are a veteran DBA standing watch over million dollar mission-critical database systems or a jack-…
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Everything I Needed To Know About IT I Learned From Logan (Part Two)
12/18/17 (This is the second part of a series. You can find Part One here.) It behooves me to remind you that there are many spoilers beyond this point. If you haven’t seen the mov…
DevOps Wrap-Up
12/15/17 Welcome to the final post in my series on DevOps. If you’ve been following along, you know the content generated several questions. In this post, I will consolidate those …
The Future is Always Bright
12/15/17 In my last couple of posts, I’ve tried to paint a picture of the past and present of database management and monitoring. We’ve seen that good database performance has ever…
Is Compliance Something I Should Be Thinking About?
12/15/17 Over the past 12 months, I’ve heard the word “compliance” thrown around quite a bit. Only now does compliance depend on what department or industry you are in. From ISO to…
Committed To Security: SolarWinds Database Performance Monitor and SOC 2 Type 1
12/13/17 Security has always been a priority at SolarWinds® Database Performance Monitor (DPM), and we have architected and built our product for security from the beginning, frequ…
The Only Source of Knowledge is Experience…
12/06/17 The title of this post is a quote that might be (or not be) from Albert Einstein. I first thought the title of the post would be something like: “why root cause analysis i…
5 More Ways I Can Steal Your Data: Hire People Who Lack Empathy
12/06/17 In this last post of my 5 More Ways I Can Steal Your Data series, I focus on my belief that all data security comes down to empathy. Yes, that one trait that we in technol…
Non-IT File Sharing and HIPAA Implications
12/06/17 When I first considered writing this post about possible HIPAA violations, I could clearly imagine how non-IT compliant file sharing could cause issues with HIPAA complian…
How Can I Become A Microsoft MVP?
12/05/17 This is such a common question that, were I to write a FAQ of questions I get after speaking, it should sit somewhere in the top 3 positions. (Update 19-Dec-2017: This pos…
Monitoring, Analytics, Diagnostics, Observability, and Root Cause Analysis
12/03/17 Monitoring is a hopelessly overloaded term in tech culture. The term now carries decades of inaccurate and imprecise use. The result is that several people can be engaged …
Why do I Have to Think About Business Continuity?
11/30/17 You’ve probably heard about the importance of business continuity and disaster recovery. Today, more businesses have business continuity plans than ever before. With so ma…