Articles by Warwick Rudd

In Part 1 we built somewhere safe to put the backups: a storage account with a delete lock and a..

Most people know they need backups. Fewer have thought about what happens when somebody else gets to them first. Ransomware..

If you’re moving SQL Server to the cloud, you’ll be pushed fairly hard toward a platform as a service. It’s..

A lot of organisations approach backups the wrong way round. They decide they need backups, they put backups in place,..

Most people know they need backups. Far fewer know they need integrity checks, and the difference between the two matters..

That has been the problem for as long as there have been database administrators, and I don’t think we’ve ever..

Today at Microsoft Ignite 2024 SQL Server 2025 was announced.  Given it’s name and previous release cycles, we can expect..

Data Saturdays were created back in 2020 with the first event held on January 23, 2021, in Guatemala. Creating an..

SQL Server Express edition is a fantastic product as an entry into using SQL Server for your applications. The main..

Working in SQL Server Management Studio is potentially an everyday occurrence for you! And having to work with many queries..

In the previous post, we introduced you to how Azure Arc-enabled SQL MI provides High Availability based on the tier..

So far in this series of posts, you have been able to deploy and configure your newly provisioned Azure Arc-enabled..