--- title: The Coeo Blog | Les Reading description: Les was previously a consultant at Coeo --- [![](https://www.coeo.com/wp-content/themes/coeo/images/logo.svg)](https://www.coeo.com/) +44 (0)20 3051 3595 | [info@coeo.com](mailto:info@coeo.com) | [Client portal login](https://my.coeo.com) # The Coeo Blog ## Les Reading ![](https://blog.coeo.com/hubfs/Icons/Logo%20no%20strapline.jpg) Les was previously a consultant at Coeo ### Recent Posts ## [Are your database backups completing as quickly as they could?](https://blog.coeo.com/lesreading/2015/06/11/are-your-database-backups-completing-as-quickly-as-they-could) 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.. [![Les Reading](https://blog.coeo.com/hubfs/Icons/Logo%20no%20strapline.jpg)](https://blog.coeo.com/lesreading/2015/06/11/are-your-database-backups-completing-as-quickly-as-they-could) [Les Reading](https://blog.coeo.com/author/les-reading) | June 11 , 2015 ## [SQL Server BI Edition (Licencing) now makes sense!](https://blog.coeo.com/lesreading/2014/10/13/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. [![Les Reading](https://blog.coeo.com/hubfs/Icons/Logo%20no%20strapline.jpg)](https://blog.coeo.com/lesreading/2014/10/13/sql-server-bi-edition-licencing-now-makes-sense) [Les Reading](https://blog.coeo.com/author/les-reading) | October 13 , 2014 ## [Putting compute power into easy terms for non-techies](https://blog.coeo.com/lesreading/2014/10/13/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.. [![Les Reading](https://blog.coeo.com/hubfs/Icons/Logo%20no%20strapline.jpg)](https://blog.coeo.com/lesreading/2014/10/13/putting-compute-power-into-easy-terms-for-non-techies) [Les Reading](https://blog.coeo.com/author/les-reading) | October 13 , 2014 ### Recent posts ### Categories - [SQL Server (118)](https://blog.coeo.com/topic/sql-server) - [Azure (58)](https://blog.coeo.com/topic/azure) - [Microsoft (49)](https://blog.coeo.com/topic/microsoft) - [Dedicated Support (47)](https://blog.coeo.com/topic/dedicated-support) - [Coeo News (43)](https://blog.coeo.com/topic/coeo-news) - [Professional Development (34)](https://blog.coeo.com/topic/professional-development) - [Industry News (27)](https://blog.coeo.com/topic/industry-news) - [cyber security (27)](https://blog.coeo.com/topic/cyber-security) - [power bi (25)](https://blog.coeo.com/topic/power-bi) - [Opinion (21)](https://blog.coeo.com/topic/opinion) - [Cloud (17)](https://blog.coeo.com/topic/cloud) - [Business Intelligence (16)](https://blog.coeo.com/topic/business-intelligence) - [analytics (15)](https://blog.coeo.com/topic/analytics) - [Security (14)](https://blog.coeo.com/topic/security) - [career (14)](https://blog.coeo.com/topic/career) - [SQL Server updates (13)](https://blog.coeo.com/topic/sql-server-updates) - [windows Updates (11)](https://blog.coeo.com/topic/windows-updates) - [Azure Databricks (10)](https://blog.coeo.com/topic/azure-databricks) - [data platform (10)](https://blog.coeo.com/topic/data-platform) - [Clustering (9)](https://blog.coeo.com/topic/clustering) - [Finance (9)](https://blog.coeo.com/topic/finance-news) - [podcast (9)](https://blog.coeo.com/topic/podcast) - [azure sql database (8)](https://blog.coeo.com/topic/azure-sql-database) - [data (8)](https://blog.coeo.com/topic/data) - [Data Science (7)](https://blog.coeo.com/topic/data-science) ### Popular posts ![](https://www.coeo.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/logo-invert.png) +44 (0)20 3051 3595 | info@coeo.com ## Contact Us By clicking submit below, you consent to allow Coeo to store and process the personal information submitted above to provide you the content requested. 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