Paul and Kimberly interview on RunAs Radio – What’s New in SQL Server 2008?
While we were in Barcelona we sat down with Richard Campbell and Greg Hughes from RunAs Radio to record a 1/2 hour interview on SQL Server 2008. We touch on a ton of different features (look at the...
View ArticleSQL Server 2008 JumpStart
Phew – last week Kimberly and I spent 3 days teaching the ins-and-outs of SQL Server 2008 for DBAs/IT-Pros to about 130 Microsoft SQL Server experts and MVPs (like Kalen Delaney, Adam Machanic and Ron...
View ArticleTechNet Radio interview with Paul and Kimberly on SQL Server 2008 – Part 1
Wow – almost 10 days without a blog post – that must be a record for me! :-) Never fear – I'll be posting more over the next couple of weeks. Kimberly flew off to India yesterday to teach some...
View ArticleAvailable for download: Our High-Availability hands-on labs and SQL Server...
A couple of weeks ago I blogged about the three tracks of the SQL Server 2008 JumpStart course that SQLskills.com taught internally for Microsoft and some MVPs – see here for details. Well, the...
View ArticleSQL Server2008: New whitepaper on combining transactional replication and...
I just heard today that the first whitepaper I’ve written for Microsoft has been published! The abstract is: SQL Server Replication: Providing High-Availability using Database Mirroring This white...
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Adding geo-redundancy to failover clustering
A few weeks ago I kicked off a survey on how you add geo-redundancy to a failover cluster (see here for the survey). The results as of 8/26/09 are as follows: So why is this interesting? Well, many...
View ArticleSQL Server 2008 High Availability whitepaper published on MSDN
The 35-page whitepaper on high availability I wrote for the SQL team over the summer has been published on MSDN. It's a 2-300 level whitepaper that describes the various high-availability technologies...
View ArticleWhat can cause log reads and other transaction log questions
Earlier today there was a question on SQL Server Central where someone wanted to know what could be causing so many reads on their transaction log. I was asked to chime in by fellow MVP Jonathan...
View ArticleWhitepaper on high-availability architectures published
The 20-page whitepaper I wrote this Spring for the SQL team has just been published. This whitepaper is titled Proven SQL Server Architectures for High Availability and Disaster Recovery and ties in...
View ArticleIn defense of transactional replication as an HA technology
Yesterday on Twitter a few people expressed disgust at a conference slide listing transactional replication as a high-availability (HA) technology. I took exception to that and argued. I think the...
View ArticleREPLICATION preventing log reuse but no replication configured
Last week, for the second time in as many weeks, I was sent a question in email from someone who had a transaction log that was growing out of control. He’d already queried log_reuse_wait_desc for the...
View ArticleSQLskills SQL101: Why does repair invalidate replication subscriptions?
SQLskills has an ongoing initiative to blog about basic topics, which we’re calling SQL101. We’re all blogging about things that we often see done incorrectly, technologies used the wrong way, or where...
View ArticleREPLICATION preventing log reuse but no replication configured
Last week, for the second time in as many weeks, I was sent a question in email from someone who had a transaction log that was growing out of control. He’d already queried log_reuse_wait_desc for the...
View ArticleSQLskills SQL101: Why does repair invalidate replication subscriptions?
SQLskills has an ongoing initiative to blog about basic topics, which we’re calling SQL101. We’re all blogging about things that we often see done incorrectly, technologies used the wrong way, or where...
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