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September
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The DR Cloud: An Example
Disclaimer: The enterprise Infrastructure as a Service(IaaS) that I will be using is for offered by the company I work for. I have been there 10 years and I am proud of our product set so I may be a little bias. However, these steps should be similar for most ...
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First look at SQL 2008 R2
I’ve started to install the CTP of SQL Server 2008 R2. The first change I ran across was this screen during installation. I don’t have a copy of SharePoint Fourteen(?) so I chose the more familiar SQL Server Feature Installation. I’m installing this on a virtual server so I can ...
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24 Hours of PASS
If you haven't already heard, PASS is hosting 24 hours of PASS on September 2nd. These are a series of free, one hour long webcasts on a variety of SQL 2008 subjects. You can check out the schedule on the PASS website. The first webcast is actually at 7 PM ...
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Replaying Traces – What I’ve Learned
So I’ve been running these replays for a while now, with mixed results. There are a number of lessons I’ve learned along the way.Check what’s running inside the workload you’re replaying. There may be something that will affect the replay. In my case there was a collection trace that was ...
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East Iowa SQL User Group meeting
This may be one of the nuttiest things I’ve ever done, at least from a technical side.Yesterday I drove to Cedar Rapids to attend the monthly meeting of the I380 Corridor (East Iowa) SQL User Group. That’s a 9 hour round trip drive for a 2 hour meeting, not a ...
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Alas, no booting to a .VHD for me
I’ve been reading quite a bit lately about attaching a virtual drive to a computer in Windows 7 and Windows 2008 Server R2. It would be nice to have the ability to boot directly into a virtual server. But I’m not seeing a way I can achieve it, at least ...
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Crystal Reports Formula for MSDB Dates and Times
As a DBA, I find myself spelunking through data and often having to present it in a somewhat human-friendly format. This is where my skills with Crystal Reports come in quite handy. I joke that I’m a Crystal Reports Jedi Master. Truth be told, I’ve just been working ...
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HP SIM Manual Discovery causes issues
Recently we upgraded to a new version of HP SIM (systems insight manager), of course not testing it or letting the DBA's know. Suddenly some things crash. The new version of HP Sim provides a "richer discovery model"; oh it's rich! Seems the new version performs some type ...
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I am not the first DBA to take up this cause… but I am determined to be the last
OK maybe this article is not THAT important LOL but it was a great quote by Obama so I figured I’d work it in LOL Please know what Recovery Mode your databases are in and your recovery requirements and then back them up accordingly. Too often I see databases ...
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