Month: July 2023

sql server data storage strategy

10 Data Storage Considerations for Growing Companies

As the business world becomes more and more data-centric, what questions does your growing company need to ask about its data storage? Recently, we began a series of posts on data strategy by asking whether your company data is an asset or a utility. In this post, we will look at 10 key data storage…
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SQL Server heartbeat

Why is it important to monitor SQL Server?

SQL Server is good. You install it, give it some databases to manage, and let it do it’s thing. When queries come in, it figures out how to resolve them. If it needs some statistics, it creates them. If the database is running out of space, it’ll grow the data file for you. Automatically. And…
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sql server data utility or asset

How to Justify IT Spend: Is Company Data an Asset or a Utility?

How do you justify investment in IT? That’s a commonly asked question for companies whose core business area is not technology. For many, it is a challenge to justify investment in technology. The primary purpose of IT, as some companies see it, is enabling the operation of the business. It’s not driving revenue. Every business,…
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