Earlier this year, we had the opportunity to visit Vigan City in the Philippines. It was designated as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1999 and recognized as one of the New 7 Wonders Cities in 2015. One of the highlights of our trip was taking a ride on the kalesa – a horse-drawn carriage […]
I heard deafening screams of excitement in our living room. Curious, I went down to check what was happening. My wife and kids were playing Super Mario on the Wii. I haven’t played this game in a long time so I asked what they were so excited about. The three of them were trying to […]
It was my first day on the job. After signing some documents with the HR manager, I was told to drop by the IT department to pick up my company-issued laptop. As I was about to go, one of my colleagues made a comment that got me really interested: “you are about to enter Jurassic […]
I started this blog post series with one thing in mind: help SQL Server administrators prepare for the journey towards the cloud. I may be a little bit ambitious to use hybrid SQL Server high availability and disaster recovery (HA/DR) solutions as a starting point. But since SQL Server HA/DR solutions have been around for a […]
We’ve moved quite a bit as a family within the last 15 years – from moving between cities, different countries to different continents. Each move was different. The first one was pretty easy since we didn’t have a lot of stuff. All we needed was a medium-sized pickup truck. The next move was to a different country. […]