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Protect Your SQL Server Backups in the Cloud
Posted by Rob Risetto on May 20, 2015

Consider the following situation, you create a database backup on a AWS virtual machine EBS disk and then move the backup file to Blob storage e.g. S3. However, you have switch on the Encryption option for your S3 storage. Is your database backup file fully protected? Yes, well, sort of.

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Host vs VM Guest Performance Counters, which is right?
Posted by Rob Risetto on May 02, 2015

I thought it would useful to highlight to readers that there can be differences in what a VM Guest performance counters show verses similar counters presented by the VMware performance charts. The following articles provide an insight into some of the discrepancies you may face.

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Design and Build a Data Warehouse in 65{2ec0bbd3bfdf207d2f0779c26660c3798ccadae611e41b6dbc787103c4a85cdd} Less Time
Posted by Rob Risetto on April 19, 2015

Recently DBInsight completed a major BI/Data Warehouse project in just 79 days, utilizing a new Data Warehouse development tool called Dimodelo Architect.

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