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18 February 2010 15:56

If you have Enterprise Servers you should read this blog

I feel that a DBA should have a good working understanding of the underlying server that SQL Server sits upon and the storage system(s) that it connects to, otherwise you may not know if you're being spun a yarn when you're trying to understand...
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27 January 2010 21:44

Setting Environment variables

Now you may well ask what on earth windows server environment variables have to do with SQL Server, and it's a fair question and only relevant in certain circumstances. I'm currently running a series of replay profiler traces on a server, I need...
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17 August 2009 18:59

Windows 2008 build fun and games.

I run a number of test servers at home, these are technically PCs running a server o/s, these currently number 6. I generally build these myself with a base spec of supporting 8GB ram in 4 slots, a minimum of a dual core proc and at least one x16 pci...
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