Your database runs somewhere. The question is: does it run in the right place? Most companies we talk to don't start with a multicloud strategy. They end up with one. A Microsoft SQL Server here, a PostgreSQL instance on AWS there, maybe an Oracle database still...
[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column width="1/2"][/vc_column][vc_column width="1/2"][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text css=""]Let’s start our blog series about SQL Server 2025 with the installation of it. In this part, we’ll cover the prerequisites needed to get started and walk through the installation process step by step. We’ll...
[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column width="1/2"][/vc_column][vc_column width="1/2"][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text css=""]Upgrading SQL Server is just one of those things you'll have to do every once in a while, as a DBA. Whether it's because a version is nearing its end-of-support date, you're refreshing hardware, beefing...
[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column width="1/2"][/vc_column][vc_column width="1/2"][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text css=""]I'm Peter Kruis, SQL engineer at Monin and in this blog series, I’m highlighting some of the bad practices I frequently encounter when visiting our customers. In the previous post, I discussed the pitfalls of...
[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column width="1/2"][/vc_column][vc_column width="1/2"][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text css=""]As many of you know, at Monin, we’re committed to helping our customers keep their database environments stable and fast. Recently, one of our colleagues had the chance to speak at Data Saturday Sweden (Data...
It has been 3 months since Microsoft announced the new release of SQL Server 2022. Microsoft did this at the Ignite conference in November 2021. At the time of this writing, the new release is in private preview. It will be in public preview somewhere...