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Metals Supplier Sees 70% Reduction in Cloud Costs Following Heraflux’s SQL Server Platform Analysis

A leading Metals Supplier had embarked on a journey to enhance their business operations with a new SQL Server-based ERP system. Excitement quickly turned into concern as they faced performance issues a few months into testing on a pre-production environment with a...

Data Platform SLAs

Database professionals of the world – I have a question. Has your organization defined service level agreements (SLAs) for your data estate? I’m talking specifically the Recovery Point Objective (RPO) and Recovery Time Objective (RTO), and to have these defined not in...

SQL Server on VMware Accelerator now free!

My SQL Server on VMware Accelerator boot camp video series is now live on Youtube! There's no strings attached and no price of entry, so now there's no reason why you can't join me in this adventure to learn more about how to performance and availability tune your SQL...

Scale your SQL Server data files without an outage

Do you have quite large MDF files on your database? By large, I mean hundreds of gigabytes (or larger). Have you ever noticed that your SQL Server disk stall metrics for these data files are much higher than the storage latency metrics exhibited on the...