How to Explain Virtualization to Newbies
10/15/15 In the world of enterprise architecture, many parts of our daily conversations are taken for granted. We talk about virtualization, vMotion®, Storage vMotion, Replication,…
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What If You Can’t Trace End-to-End?
10/15/15 A lot of monitoring systems have a goal of end-to-end tracing, from “click to disk” or something similar. This is usually implemented by adding some kind of tracing inform…
Monitoring: How and Why We Do It
10/14/15 Put simply, we monitor to find and fix problems before our customers and users do, so they’re not tempted to go somewhere else for their purchases, or take our names in va…
Queueing Theory: Faster Trains Might Make London Underground Slower
10/10/15 Let’s take a look at a great real-world example that effectively illustrates how queuing theory can be unintuitive even in situations that seem simple. A recent BBC report…
The Premise of Premises: All Clouds Are Not Created Equal
10/09/15 If you take one thing away from this article, it will be that you will have a far better fundamental understanding of the premise of your premises. The title of this artic…
A Look into the Pi-Shaped Expert Model
10/07/15 So you’ve started planning your career using a VCDX skillset. Continuing on that same train of thought, I want to walk you through an additional concept that might help yo…
Mastering the Sort Buffer and sort_buffer_size
10/02/15 The sort buffer, which is controlled by the sortbuffersize setting, is probably one of the most-discussed MySQL settings. Interestingly, in many cases it has a lot less po…
Are You Getting Full Benefit of your IT Monitoring Tools?
10/01/15 In both cases we thought we were covered and our monitoring systems had our back. As it turns out, that’s a more common situation than it should be, and following a few be…
Troubleshooting SQL Server, Part 1 : Do You Use These Shortcuts?
09/30/15 In the popular white paper entitled Troubleshooting SQL Server Wait Statistics, I take you through three scenarios in which a wait stats-only approach is insufficient or e…
Using VSAN to Maximize Database Performance
09/28/15 Every database administrator knows that they get paid for performance, but keep their jobs with recovery. Failing to make a query run faster will not get you fired as fast…
Selecting Queries for Optimization
09/25/15 Query optimization can feel like an overwhelming task. Where to start? In this blog post, we’ll discuss how to select which queries you really should optimize. This is a s…
Learning to Pivot
09/18/15 Industries as a whole tend to resist change. This makes sense because industries are made of corporations, those corporations are made of people, and people tend to resist…