Author: Hemantgiri Goswami

Most of my blog posts are an outcome of the work that I do over the weekend while holding the pager for my team. This blog post is no different. In this blog post, I will talk about the importance…

Blogging is something I love because it gives me a chance to share the ideas I have and the knowledge I have gained so far. Last week, one of our clients was doing some maintenance activity. Today’s blog post comes…

Life is a balancing act between the personal and professional. It is a journey and this journey should be filled with joy and happiness. It should also give you a chance to learn, to grow and to cherish moments, spending…

Hemantgiri Goswami, Microsoft SQL Server MVP and Lead Database Consultant, explains the new Always Encrypted security feature on SQL Server 2016.

Hemantgiri Goswami, Microsoft SQL Server MVP and Lead Database Consultant, discusses how to resolve an Update-Update Conflict in Peer-to-Peer Replication in SQL.

Hemantgiri S. Goswami, Pythian database expert and SQL Server MVP, discusses a new feature, Basic Availability Groups for AlwaysOn, found in SQL Server 2016

While I was working on a migration project recently, I had the task of importing and then exporting multiple packages – about 120~ on to a new server. Usually, if there are less numbers of packages we can do this task manually…

Greetings! Last time I talked about reading System Logs on the SQL Server box, explaining why it is really important that DBA(s) should scan through the logs once a day on a critical production system. As I mentioned in my previous…

Recently, while I was working on a backup failure issue, I found that it was failing for a particular database. When I ran the backup manually to a different folder it would complete successfully, but not on the folder that it…

Along with other administrators, life of us, the DBAs are no different but full of adventure.  At times, we encounter an issue which is very new for us, rather, one that we have not faced in the past.  Today, I…