For some reason this has been hot in my search options of late, and since I’m speaking on “Deploying Your Applications to SQL Azure” there, I needed to figure it out myself. So here’s a brief list of costs for the event. Registration: $299+$199 for pre-con seminars–so $500 Flight: Orlando is one of the cheapest […]
Slides here. No comments about steaming piles of DAC, please 🙂
This is the slide deck from my presentation from #sqlsat69 Building your first Sql Server cluster http://slidesha.re/etJZ5z Will update with my Data Tier Application slides following that presentation.
I have the good fortune to be presenting at upcoming events in Philadelphia, Boston, and Orlando. This weekend at SQL Saturday #69 I will be presenting the following: 10:00 AM Building your first SQL Cluster 12:30 PM (Along with Mark Kromer from Microsoft) Migrate SQL Server Apps to SQL Azure Cloud DB 3:45 PM Deploying […]
I’m in the process of developing a presentation entitled “Building Your First SQL Server Cluster” for some upcoming SQL Saturdays, and some inspiration for a few blog posts have come out of it. This one is short and fairly simple. Windows, as we all know and love, has us use drive letters as the root […]
When I left you last week, we were discussing a recruiter horror story, passed along from a friend in a past job. She had a really awful phone screen with HR, but the hiring manager still wanted to speak with her. The story continues… The hiring manager schedules a phone screen with me, and we […]
This conversation came up on Twitter a few weeks ago between Brent Ozar (blog | twitter), Tom LaRock (blog| twitter) and Adam Machanic (blog|twitter). Brent has posted before about how to work with recruiters, here and here. There is a perception in the IT community that recruiters are nothing better than bottom feeding, used car […]
A couple of weeks ago I got some really good news—I was transferring into a new role at my current company. Since this is an internal transfer, the standard two-week notice stretched to four and I had time to properly transfer my existing projects. It is important to be as effective as possible in doing […]
For those of you who don’t know, PASS has a new event this year, in addition to the annual PASS Summit in Seattle. SQL Rally will be May 11-13 in Orlando, Florida, and will be a lower cost, slightly more community focussed event. Â In addition to the lower cost, sessions will be voted on by […]
In order to do anything involving a SQL Server clustered instance (restore, backup, store/read data) storage must be accessible to the clustered instance. Here we will discuss the process of how to add a new LUN to a SQL cluster. First off, have your storage admin add the disk, and make it accessible to all […]