Author: Shannon Lowder

Shannon Lowder is the Database Engineer you’ve been looking for!
Look no further for expertise in:
Business Analysis to gather the business requirements for the database; Database Architecting to design the logical design of the database; Database Development to actually build the objects needed by the business logic; finally, Database Administration to keep the database running in top form, and making sure there is a disaster recovery plan.

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Build Your Own Domain Controller

I’ve worked with a handful of companies helping them integrate their on-premises infrastructure with Azure. About half of them already have an Active Directory domain. If you’re coming from one of those companies, you can skip this blog entry and wait for the next one. But the other half of the companies I’ve helped were…

20200116 by Shannon Lowder 0 comments

The New Beast

Back in college, I had a workstation I named Beast. I named it for the furry genius mutant in the X-men. It was the first multi-processor machine I ever built. By today’s standard, I’m sure my iPhone has more processing power. But, for those days it was an absolute beast! This was also the first…

20200115 by Shannon Lowder 2 comments

It’s been a long time

It’s been more than a year since I contributed anything here. I could say it’s because it’s been a really good time to be in consulting. I could also say, I’ve been finding more and more ways to fill up my time. In the end, the biggest reason is, I fell out of the routine.…