John Grover

John Grover is a 25-year IT veteran with experience in industries from (physical) warehousing, and health care to his current position in higher education. His experience with databases started with Oracle but he has crossed over from the “Dark Side” and is now a SQL Server MCITP. John is currently the database team lead for a hybrid SQL Server and Oracle environment at the University of Notre Dame. His experience with SQL Server includes clustering, mirroring and running in a virtual environment.
Amazon AWS
- How To Resize an AWS Volume Using The AWS Console or PowerShell (last update: 10/1/2015)
- Reduce AWS Costs for SQL Server Storage, Compute and Database as a Service (last update: 3/11/2019)
Backup
- Backing up your SQL Server to Amazon's Cloud in Three Easy Steps (last update: 12/29/2014)
Database Mail
- SQL Server Alerts with Text Messaging from SQL Server Database Mail (last update: 4/4/2013)
Disaster Recovery
- How to recover a suspect msdb database in SQL Server (last update: 3/21/2014)
Policy Based Management
- Creating custom T-SQL conditions and policies for SQL Server Policy Based Management (last update: 3/14/2013)
PowerShell
- SQL Server Database Connectivity Testing Using PowerShell (last update: 1/24/2014)
SQL Server on Linux
- 7 Things Every SQL Server DBA Should Know About Linux (last update: 7/10/2017)
- Top 10 Linux Commands for SQL Server DBAs (last update: 4/17/2017)
- Using ssh to connect to Linux for the SQL Server DBA (last update: 8/31/2017)
System Databases
- Restoring the SQL Server Master Database Even Without a Backup (last update: 7/2/2014)