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Gail Shaw SSC Guru Points: 1004494 More actions · Answer 1

Regarding your earlier question about a version of SSMS for Linux, announced this morning was SQL Operations Studio (aka Project Carbon), a cross platform SQL client for Windows, Mac and Linux.
It's not available right now (no download page), but should be very soon

Gail Shaw
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Lynn Pettis SSC Guru Points: 442447 More actions · Answer 2

GilaMonster - Wednesday, November 1, 2017 12:54 PM

@Lynn

Regarding your earlier question about a version of SSMS for Linux, announced this morning was SQL Operations Studio (aka Project Carbon), a cross platform SQL client for Windows, Mac and Linux.
It's not available right now (no download page), but should be very soon

@Gail,

Awesome, thanks for the update. I will keep a watch for it. Now, once it is released, will Redgate support it cross platform with their tools.

jasona.work SSC Guru Points: 50021 More actions · Answer 3

I'm hoping someone here can help me out finding a blog posting...

I *know* a couple weeks or so back, I saw a posting, I thought by Brent Ozar (but I couldn't find it on his blog,) that the gist of it was "whoever is taking the backups of the SQL database, they're the DBA."

I'm to the point of talking to my boss to try to wrest control of my SQL backups from our datacenter guys and I think that article would be worth showing him as well, kind of to indicate *why* the database backups should be pulled in-house, as it were.

Of course, then the fun of getting sufficient storage (also from the datacenter guys) to put the backups on starts, followed by making sure they have a schedule to backup that location and take said backups off-site...

Thom A SSC Guru Points: 99009 More actions · Answer 4

Lynn Pettis - Wednesday, November 1, 2017 1:00 PM

GilaMonster - Wednesday, November 1, 2017 12:54 PM

@Lynn

Regarding your earlier question about a version of SSMS for Linux, announced this morning was SQL Operations Studio (aka Project Carbon), a cross platform SQL client for Windows, Mac and Linux.
It's not available right now (no download page), but should be very soon

@Gail,

Awesome, thanks for the update. I will keep a watch for it. Now, once it is released, will Redgate support it cross platform with their tools.

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Edit; initial hype done. Gail, any links to the announcement page?
Edit2; Found it! https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/dataplatforminsider/2017/11/01/sql-server-2017-and-azure-data-services-the-ultimate-hybrid-data-platform/

Thom~

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Gail Shaw SSC Guru Points: 1004494 More actions · Answer 5

Thom A - Wednesday, November 1, 2017 1:06 PM

Edit; initial hyper done. Gail, any links to the announcement page?

Other than the tweets from the keynote this morning, no.

Gail Shaw
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SQL In The Wild: Discussions on DB performance with occasional diversions into recoverability

We walk in the dark places no others will enter
We stand on the bridge and no one may pass

Thom A SSC Guru Points: 99009 More actions · Answer 6

GilaMonster - Wednesday, November 1, 2017 1:11 PM

Thom A - Wednesday, November 1, 2017 1:06 PM

Edit; initial hyper done. Gail, any links to the announcement page?

Other than the tweets from the keynote this morning, no.

Thanks. I did some twitter diving and found a link 🙂

Thom~

Excuse my typos and sometimes awful grammar. My fingers work faster than my brain does.
Larnu.uk

jasona.work SSC Guru Points: 50021 More actions · Answer 7

jasona.work - Wednesday, November 1, 2017 1:01 PM

I'm hoping someone here can help me out finding a blog posting...

I *know* a couple weeks or so back, I saw a posting, I thought by Brent Ozar (but I couldn't find it on his blog,) that the gist of it was "whoever is taking the backups of the SQL database, they're the DBA."

I'm to the point of talking to my boss to try to wrest control of my SQL backups from our datacenter guys and I think that article would be worth showing him as well, kind of to indicate *why* the database backups should be pulled in-house, as it were.

Of course, then the fun of getting sufficient storage (also from the datacenter guys) to put the backups on starts, followed by making sure they have a schedule to backup that location and take said backups off-site...

Aanndd found it!
https://spaghettidba.com/2017/09/13/expensive-enterprise-backup-tools-a-survival-guide/

Now to write up an outline of the whys and wherefores to explain why I want to take control of my DB backups.

Luis Cazares SSC Guru Points: 183686 More actions · Answer 8

jasona.work - Wednesday, November 1, 2017 1:18 PM

jasona.work - Wednesday, November 1, 2017 1:01 PM

I'm hoping someone here can help me out finding a blog posting...

I *know* a couple weeks or so back, I saw a posting, I thought by Brent Ozar (but I couldn't find it on his blog,) that the gist of it was "whoever is taking the backups of the SQL database, they're the DBA."

I'm to the point of talking to my boss to try to wrest control of my SQL backups from our datacenter guys and I think that article would be worth showing him as well, kind of to indicate *why* the database backups should be pulled in-house, as it were.

Of course, then the fun of getting sufficient storage (also from the datacenter guys) to put the backups on starts, followed by making sure they have a schedule to backup that location and take said backups off-site...

Aanndd found it!
https://spaghettidba.com/2017/09/13/expensive-enterprise-backup-tools-a-survival-guide/

Now to write up an outline of the whys and wherefores to explain why I want to take control of my DB backups.

Or explain why they should guarantee RPO and RTO. Even better, you should get some guarantee on PTO.

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Eirikur Eiriksson SSC Guru Points: 182631 More actions · Answer 9

Luis Cazares - Wednesday, November 1, 2017 1:49 PM

jasona.work - Wednesday, November 1, 2017 1:18 PM

jasona.work - Wednesday, November 1, 2017 1:01 PM

I'm hoping someone here can help me out finding a blog posting...

I *know* a couple weeks or so back, I saw a posting, I thought by Brent Ozar (but I couldn't find it on his blog,) that the gist of it was "whoever is taking the backups of the SQL database, they're the DBA."

I'm to the point of talking to my boss to try to wrest control of my SQL backups from our datacenter guys and I think that article would be worth showing him as well, kind of to indicate *why* the database backups should be pulled in-house, as it were.

Of course, then the fun of getting sufficient storage (also from the datacenter guys) to put the backups on starts, followed by making sure they have a schedule to backup that location and take said backups off-site...

Aanndd found it!
https://spaghettidba.com/2017/09/13/expensive-enterprise-backup-tools-a-survival-guide/

Now to write up an outline of the whys and wherefores to explain why I want to take control of my DB backups.

Or explain why they should guarantee RPO and RTO. Even better, you should get some guarantee on PTO.

Throw some RIOs, TCOs and handful of TLAs in the mix, starts to look like a proper habanero salsa
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Michael L John One Orange Chip Points: 26551 More actions · Answer 10

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November 1, 2017 at 2:43 pm

#1966318

Can someone possibly be this thick?

https://qa.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/1905649/HA-and-DR-Solution

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Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1000539 More actions · Answer 11

Michael L John - Wednesday, November 1, 2017 2:43 PM

Can someone possibly be this thick?

https://qa.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/1905649/HA-and-DR-Solution

Yes... and it's not that rare. Seems to be it's becoming the rule rather than the exception. I blame a whole lot of it on MS no longer including local BOL with SQL Server.

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Lynn Pettis SSC Guru Points: 442447 More actions · Answer 12

Jeff Moden - Wednesday, November 1, 2017 3:15 PM

Michael L John - Wednesday, November 1, 2017 2:43 PM

Can someone possibly be this thick?

https://qa.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/1905649/HA-and-DR-Solution

Yes... and it's not that rare. Seems to be it's becoming the rule rather than the exception. I blame a whole lot of it on MS no longer including local BOL with SQL Server.

O.M.G.
Please tell me that this person isn't a DBA, System Admin, Storage Admin.

Brandie Tarvin SSC Guru Points: 172918 More actions · Answer 13

Jeff Moden - Wednesday, November 1, 2017 3:15 PM

Michael L John - Wednesday, November 1, 2017 2:43 PM

Can someone possibly be this thick?

https://qa.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/1905649/HA-and-DR-Solution

Yes... and it's not that rare. Seems to be it's becoming the rule rather than the exception. I blame a whole lot of it on MS no longer including local BOL with SQL Server.

I miss BOL being local.

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jonathan.crawford SSCertifiable Points: 6604 More actions · Answer 14

Steve Jones - SSC Editor - Tuesday, October 24, 2017 4:54 PM

I used to do this periodically with the pile on my desk. People would drop work off, or I'd print emails. Once it got more than an inch or so thick, I'd throw everything below the top few items in the trash. Clearly I was never going to pop that work off the stack.

so, there's this story that Henry Ford used to interview people by putting them at an empty desk with sample memos in the inbox to work (all paper days, of course). Within a couple minutes they could tell who to hire and who to pass on because halfway down the stack was a memo that said the factory was on fire.

some people went through the stack and identified priority, others just worked from the top down.

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jonathan.crawford SSCertifiable Points: 6604 More actions · Answer 15

jasona.work - Thursday, October 26, 2017 6:51 AM

The downside to working from home is, if the cats decide it's the season to start throwing up on the carpet, you kind of need to clean it up instead of pretending you don't see it until the wife gets home and notices it...

this. so much this. Or, you have to do it right away because the dog's not in her kennel, she's roaming about and is going to eat it. (also a possible solution)

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