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21 October 2009 22:57

When does 2+2 != 4 ?

Disclaimer: Results and observations are from a specific series of tests using sql 2008 enterprise on windows 2008 enterprise. I've been working on a series of benchmarking tests for an application with the aim of showing scaling of the storage for...
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03 June 2009 11:44

Build Your Own Cluster

In case you've all missed this you can now build a real cluster with just three machines http://blogs.msdn.com/clustering/archive/2009/05/14/9613924.aspx Windows 2008 Storage Server is now available for msdn and technet download, as the man says now's...
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04 May 2009 19:53

Storage – The Final Frontier

This is the presentation for the UK SSUG that I gave the other night. The link below is a pdf of all the slides and the script / notes that I wrote to go with each slide.  I’ve not edited this for style or anything – this is as I worked out what...
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26 February 2009 22:16

Thin Provisioning and ntfs

I'm currently working on a SQL Server storage project and as part of that I'm touching a number of areas that may be of interest to the DBA. The IT industry is full of buzz words, new fads, fashionable terms and so on; and Thin Provisioning was...
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