Presenter: Mike Hillwig
Topic: Operational mistakes to avoid
Downloads: Slides
How often do you launch a remote desktop session to your SQL Server? And how often do you ALTER a TABLE during peak hours? These can cause performance problems. Mike Hillwig has a top ten (and growing!) list of operational mistakes to avoid and will help you understand why you should avoid them. And in many cases, he will show you how to work around them.
Biography:
Mike Hillwig is a 15-year IT veteran, having spent the last ten in the world of databases. He works as a contract DBA for a Boston-based provider of software and cloud-based solutions for the financial industry where he manages customer database environments. He specializes in making these environments grow and scale, where he believes that consistency and sanity are very closely linked.
Outside of work, he is an avid blogger, a passionate cook, and dad to two Rescue Pugs, Reggie and Ruby.