Cloud Computing

You’re used to managing your own SQL Servers in VMs, but now they’re asking you to work with the cloud. You’re already comfortable installing, backing up, and performance tuning “regular” SQL Servers, and you just need to catch up with what’s different about the cloud. You don’t want hype – you just want honest opinions…

For the last twenty years, SQL Server performance tuning has relied on a few facts: SQL Server provided a lot of performance metrics with thorough documentation from both Microsoft and the community. You could fetch those metrics in a variety of ways, like Perfmon counters and dynamic management views. Many of the metrics were cumulative…

Here’s how the interview started: Forrest Brazeal: Brent, you’re a performance specialist who’s worked with massive SQL Server deployments; how does it make you feel when you hear cloud architects saying things like “relational databases don’t scale?” What do you wish they knew? “Time for a smoke break.” Brent Ozar: They’re right. Nothing scales worth a…

It sounds like a trick question, but I’m serious. If your company’s management is just now starting to consider the cloud in 2020, your reaction shouldn’t be to cast a shadow on cloud vendors. Instead, think of it as writing your own resume: what the capabilities that you and your team are really proud of?…