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21 June 2011 19:46

Bare Metal Restore Part 2

I blogged previously about how Windows 2008 R2 has native "bare metal restore"   http://sqlblogcasts.com/blogs/grumpyolddba/archive/2011/05/13/windows-2008-r2-bare-metal-restore.aspx , see the Core Team's blog post here; ...
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11 March 2011 11:09

Tech Days in UK

There's a series of Tech days announced http://uktechdays.cloudapp.net/techdays-live.aspx including one for Database on 26th May in London, http://uktechdays.cloudapp.net/techdays-live/mission-critical-database.aspx If these days follow the standard...
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30 June 2010 13:09

Do you manage your SQL Server with rdp sessions?

I was just having a catch up on FeedReader and I found this gem from the Windows Cluster Team http://blogs.msdn.com/b/clustering/archive/2010/06/23/10028855.aspx If you use rdp sessions and currently manage them with remote desktop manager I think you'll...
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15 April 2010 21:00

1 Million IOPS

As a keen follower of storage performance I couldn't help but be drawn to this article in The Register http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/04/14/lsi_million_iops/ this morning. I gave my 5 year old laptop a new lease of life with a SSD and in combination...
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27 October 2009 07:40

Well there's a thing

Just noticed this post from the PSS Team http://blogs.msdn.com/psssql/archive/2009/10/26/reduce-locking-and-other-needs-when-updating-data-better-performance.aspx never knew you could do double assignment x = y = z.
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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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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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07 January 2009 12:00

SQL Server 2008 Information

I was searching for a particular document for SQL 2008 and thought I'd list the links to what I found, there's some especially good white papers in Technet, I can recommend the T-SQL enhancements and the indexed view white papers especially: SQL...
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01 May 2008 10:44

Information Overload ??

As I've remarked before the profusion of Blogs ( from the various Microsoft teams and individuals ) whilst exposing so much more information then we ever had before also requires you to almost spend all your time just checking every blog you can find...
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18 April 2008 12:53

Come to the UK SSUG

Support your local user group! If you missed out on attending the UK SSUG Meeting in London last night then you missed an excellent evening, OK if you can't get to London Victoria beacuse you're in Scotland fair enough, but with the close proximity...
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