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…
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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…
Brainiac Corner with Ryn Daniels
09/15/15 Ryn Daniels is an operations engineer at Etsy who got her start in programming with TI-80 calculators back when Geocities was still cool, and these days has opinions on th…
Playing Operation with Systems
09/14/15 We live in a hectic world of day-to-day operations and aggressive business requirements that must be facilitated and made possible by IT — often in a vacuum. And we do all…
Four Ways Your Network Could Change in Four Years
09/02/15 While SDN is still in its infancy, the value is indisputable as are the initial attempts at implementation in the form of Cisco® ACI and VMware® NSX. With ARIN down to abo…
Why You Still Need Network Alerts
09/01/15 Retracing an intractable alert hairball today, I’m reminded of how critical, and often critically broken, alerting actually is in many environments. You can be a departmen…