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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 April 2011 20:41

Windows doesn't like Squirrels ?

Strange goings on when setting a sevrice account password ^^ I was setting a service account for a dev SQL server and wished to change the account password from that which it had been created with. I can list all of this as I'm not giving away server...
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27 October 2010 16:06

ah I remember it well ! or not in this case

I've been following a few posts about the impact of filecopies on servers ( x64 w2k8 ) and how memory is affected. Now I've seen what appears to be memory being taken by file copies - I haven't fully tested this as I've only noticed on...
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20 August 2010 10:47

Windows 2008 Cluster Shares

If you're reasonably new to windows 2008 clusters, well we don't all get to upgrade to the newest technology when it first appears, then you might find the whole process of file shares somewhat bewildering compared to w2k3. I certainly struggled...
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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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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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