Maintaining database backups is an essential part of most DBA's or Sys Admin's job descriptions, yet it's common to find deployments of larger databases where the time taken to run a full backup means that they are not being taken as regularly as possible. Using differential backups is all well and..
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SQL Server BI Edition (Licencing) now makes sense!
Under the SQL Server 2012 licencing terms running a data warehouse on the BI edition of SQL Server did not make sense if your source databases were licensed per core.
Putting compute power into easy terms for non-techies
Last week I worked with a client that wants to continue running their mission critical Point of Sales system on a server first procured in 2006 for another two years. I had a catch up with a non-technical project manager who seemed to think that server compute power wasn’t an issue because the..