Tonight I will presenting on Virtualization for SQL DBAs at the Northern Virginia SQL Users group at 7 PM in the ATT Building in Vienna, VA. I’ll be talking about topics like memory management for VMs, how monitoring your virtual servers is different than your physical, and why storage performance is even more important in […]
Author: jdanton1
Party Planning and Managing Databases—Similar or Different?
One of my many hobbies is food—cooking, eating and preparing it are some of my favorite ways to relax and wind down. I’ve taken this way too far at times, and while I would never call myself a chef (that term is reserved for leaders of teams of cooks), I’m not a bad cook. One […]
SQL Saturday #121–It’s a Wrap.
On Saturday I completed the first SQL Saturday, I’ve ever personally organized, I’ve spoken at many, volunteered at several, but this was my first time running the whole show. Our usergroup had done this twice before, so we weren’t totally new to the process. After sleeping about 15 hours yesterday I wanted to blog about […]
Database Stats in AlwaysOn Secondary Replicas
I’ve been doing a lot of presenting lately on the new feature in SQL Server 2012—AlwaysOn Availability Groups, though most of by presentations are more configuration and infrastructure related, I am always interested in system performance. So one day, while getting ready for a presentation I read this in books online. Little did I know […]
The Dog ate My Checklist—Or Why Backups Are Important
So as most of you may know, I’m the event organizer for SQL Saturday #121 Philadelphia. So I’ve been making lots of lists, given that I’m not as organized as I should be, some of these are in OneNote, some of them are in a text file in Notepad++, but in the last few days […]
SQL Saturday #121 — Philadelphia
For the past several months, along with my outstanding volunteer staff, I have been in the planning phases for SQL Saturday Philadelphia. Thanks to the wonderful folks at Microsoft we have an outstanding location, our sponsors have been wonderful, and we have an awesome group of speakers assembled. You can find the schedule here. Also, […]
Upcoming Events
My speaking schedule is pretty packed for the next few weeks. Here goes: 5/17 The Impact of FDA Regulations on Maintaining Your Database Environment — SQL PASS Healthcare Virtual Chapter. This talk will harken back to my days in the Pharmaceutical and Medical Device industries. I will discuss the rules and some tips and tricks […]
SQL Saturday #118 — Madison WI
I’m here in balmy Madison, Wisconsin presenting today at SQL Saturday #118 presenting on High Availability and DR options in SQL Server 2012. Jes Borland (b|t) and the outstanding crew have done a fantastic job with this event. Anyway, I wanted to slides and some resources. Slides are here. Books online for AlwaysOn Availability Groups […]
Windows Server 2012 Impressions, Part 2
I’ve been doing some testing with Windows 8, and after fighting with VMWare for a while yesterday, I was able to get a SQL 2012 Failover Cluster Instance up and running on two nodes. All in all, the process wasn’t that different from building a cluster in Windows 2008R2, but there are a couple of […]
Windows 8 Early Impressions
Late last week, I fired up a Windows Server 8 VM—I wanted to play with it a home a bit, before setting up a large scale environment here at work. The first thing I noticed was how much the GUI has changed—there isn’t a start button, and most tasks are driven by the Server Manager […]