October 2009 - Posts
12 October 2009
Something to check for on your Disaster Recovery plan
We just had something happen that caught us by surprise. We were log shipping to a remote warm standby server. It was all running smoothly and we were ready for anything. Then the remote server went down - right down. Looks like we might have to rebuild it. Meanwhile, I've got transaction log backups...
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09 October 2009
More fun with SQL 2008 and Windows 7
I've just got round to trying out Reporting Services on my laptop, having rebuilt it with Windows 7. I'm fairly comfortable with Reporting on XP but I've clearly got some reading to do because there was some baffling security weirdness that I never would have fixed without help. Once again...
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