As a database consultant, one of the things I am most frequently asked about is dealing with database locking issues. Usually, the question is posed by someone who is experiencing a slowdown in their ...

So I've had a case open with Microsoft since October concerning SQL databases that I cannot restore from DPM unless I run a consistency check on them first. Today, it seems they assigned to me yet ...

Discord suffered what they classified as a 'massive outage' that prevented users from logging into the service or using voice chats. The outage started at 2:49 PM EST and was initially caused by an ...

I’ve had a bit of a time lately troubleshooting some database issues and I finally got them worked out so I thought I’d talk about my layered approach to pinning down issues on a busy box. The problem ...