Author Archives: WARDY IT Solutions

August 2019 Roundup: Joining MOQ Limited, Virtual DBA Service Q1 2019 Roadmap, Cloud Beacon Announcement, Virtual DBA Case Study

WARDY IT Solutions - August 2019 Roundup

As many of you will now be aware, earlier this month we announced that WARDY IT Solutions has been acquired by MOQ Limited (ASX: MOQ). Despite this, it is business as usual for WARDY IT Solutions, as we will become a subsidiary of MOQ and I will continue to lead the business on a day to day basis.

How Brisbane’s Top SQL Server Consultants Stay Up-to-date

SQL Server Consultant Brisbane

We spoke with ten of our Brisbane-based SQL Server Consultants to find out what their roles involve. It wasn’t as easy as tying all their capabilities up into one sentence, we realised that their day to day really depends on their customers needs. Here are just some of the skillsets our consultants exhibit daily.

SQL Server Security Auditing: Checking Who Has Access to What

SQL Server Security Auditing: Checking Who Has Access to What

With changes often needed around security to ensure people have access, how does an organisation ensure who has what level of access? How can you identify potential security threats? The answer is to review or audit the security of your SQL Server environment on a regular basis. Here’s our suggestions for what to consider including in a SQL security audit:

May 2019 Roundup: WARDY IT Solutions’ feature on Industry Leaders, Azure Billing Models, Power BI Automation

May 2019 Roundup: WARDY IT Solutions' feature on Industry Leaders, Azure Billing Models, Power BI Automation

Last week I spent some time judging the final presentations for the Information Systems Consulting course at QUT. I am part of the QUT Alumni and it was good to spend some time back where I first gained an interest in Information Technology. The students had a fictious customer project where they needed to design a marketing solution and present this to their cohort.

Virtual DBA Service Q4 Roadmap

Virtual DBA Roadmap WARDY IT Solutions 2019 Q4

We developed SQL Beacon™ and MyVirtualDBA™ to underpin our world-class team of DBAs who work on shift, 27x7x365 to support our clients. SQL Beacon™ is an agentless monitoring and alerting engine that polls your infrastructure and SQL Servers to generate notifications for events before they become issues. The data captured by SQL Beacon™ is also […]

April 2019 Roundup

April 2019 - SQL Server News Stories Roundup

Over the last few days my daughter has been in hospital with repository issues. The last time I spent any time in a hospital was when my wife gave birth to this bundle of joy in the same hospital 19 months ago. In this time the technology in the hospital has changed dramatically, with each nurse now empowered with a mobile phone running a number of health applications to measure and capture vital statics.