All is well. Megan is having a good day. She’s a SQLServer DBA and her environment is humming along. Then…. someone drops a critical table bringing efficient data retrieval to a screeching halt. Now what? It’s a weekday morning and business…

Part I of II

One of the more interesting storage improvements in recent years was the addition of deduplication to what was traditionally “just plain storage”. Deduplication makes better use of storage by reducing the amount of duplicate information…