In my earlier post “Adding a New Disk to a SQL Cluster Instance“, I needed to clarify something based on a comment. Any drive that gets added to your cluster that is not a mount point, as in occupies a physical drive letter, needs to be dependent on the SQL Server service. I didn’t think […]
If you’re still on the fence about going to SQL Rally, and need more rationale for why you should go, then check out the GREAT schedule at the website. Below are the sessions I plan on attending when I’m not presenting my session—Using Data Tier Applications to Deploy Applications to SQL Azure (which I’ll discuss […]
Recently, we got a new SAN (yeah!!!), unfortunately, our SAN vendor’s migration utilities are priced at such a level, that there is no way we were going to use them. So we had to resort to manually moving the disks. Fortunately in this instance all of the directory names and data files were the same, […]
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 […]