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 […]
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A recruiter story, Part II
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 […]
A Recruiter Story, Part I
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 […]
How to Transfer an IT Project Effectively
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 […]
SQL Rally — Vote for Me!!
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. In addition to the lower cost, sessions will be voted on by […]
Adding a new disk to a SQL Server Cluster Instance
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 […]
Server Virtualization–the bottom end of the spectrum
Brent Ozar posted an excellent blog yesterday, on the upper limits of server virtualization. In his post, he discussed the limitations of the upper limits of using VMWare for database servers. I mentioned to Brent on twitter that, I had just been talking about the other side of this–what’s too small to virtualize. I was […]