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House of Brick provides cutting-edge software innovation and industry-leading consulting experience to help navigate the most challenging cloud migration and operational challenges.

Learn best practices for configuring continuous database inventory with automated discovery, unified tracking, and historical snapshots to eliminate audit surprises.
Mike Stone (@HoBMStone), CIO & Principal Architect When we are asked to introduce new database technology or a new architecture at an existing customer site,
Joe Grant (@dba_jedi), Principal Architect One of the not so fun jobs for a DBA is the never-ending task of refreshing non-production databases from their
Joe Grant, Principal Architect In keeping with the use of templates, as we did in part one of this post, the next thing would be
Mike Stone (@HoBMStone), CIO & Principal Architect I recently read about a feature of NetApp called “FlexClone”, which promises instant virtual-to-physical (v2p) cloning of VMDK

Nathan Biggs (@nathanbiggs), CEO I have been meeting with customers all around the world recently and talking commiserating with them about their experiences dealing with
Shawn Meyers (@1dizzygoose), Principal Architect In this post I will discuss High Availability (HA) and list native SQL Server types along with their pros and

Use NEWID to safely rename a database in SQL Server: steps, file name updates, single-user mode, and validation tips.
Jim Hannan (@HoBHannan), Principal Architect & Joe Grant, Principal Architect In this final part of a recent interview between Jim Hannan and his colleague, and
Jim Hannan (@HoBHannan), Principal Architect & Joe Grant, Principal Architect This is the third part of a recent interview between Jim Hannan and his colleague,
Jim Hannan (@HoBHannan), Principal Architect & Joe Grant, Principal Architect Jim Hannan recently interviewed his colleague, and fellow Principal Architect Joe Grant, who has completed