Author: Warner Chaves

As Microsoft Azure’s NoSQL service offering, Cosmos DB has received a lot of investment and development effort. Microsoft considers Cosmos as a “ring zero” service, which means that it is available by default from all regions as soon as they…

As part of their cloud offerings, all major providers (Microsoft, Amazon, Google) have developed very exciting and interesting NoSQL/NewSQL offerings. Microsoft Azure’s is called Cosmos DB, a rebranding of the product initially known as DocumentDB. Cosmos DB is no longer…

As a SQL Server production DBA, at some point in time you will have to deal with a stack dump. A stack dump is a file that is written to disk with an “.mdmp” extension when SQL Server encounters a…

SQL Server is one of Microsoft’s strongest enterprise software products. Both in terms of revenue and industry reputation, it is widely adopted for its ease of use while at the same time offering high end features in terms of security,…

Storage Spaces Direct (S2D) is a new feature of Windows Server 2016 that takes the ‘software-defined storage’ concept to the next level. The value proposition is that instead of deploying expensive SAN hardware, similar results can be achieved by pooling…

Warner Chaves outline the goals he is setting for his clients in 2017.

Warner Chaves, Principal Consultant at Pythian and Microsoft MVP explores and explains the basic fundamentals of Azure Data Lake.

Warner Chaves, Principal Consultant at Pythian, compares cloud providers NoSQL and SQL, offerings from AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud, their similarities, differences, and use cases for each one.

Warner Chaves, Microsoft MVP and MCM, explores the Columnstore indexes feature and explains why it’s important, and where you can leverage this functionality.

Warner Chaves, Microsoft MVP and MCM, sheds some light on Azure SQL Database Threat Detection.