To celebrate the Victoria Day Holiday in Canada I drove down to the U.S.A. with 'ol Volvo Wagon (not Smart this time, since 3k of maintenance awaits it today :) to present on Database Mirroring on SQL Server 2008.

Yesterdays’ meeting when well and I met some very interesting people at the Competitive Computing’s… Read more

Next Monday, I shall be driving the Smart down to Burlington, VT, again to visit Roman Rehak's Vermont SQL Server User Group and discuss Automatic Failover with Database Mirroring on SQL Server 2008.  We shall examine the prerequisites of Mirroring (port verification, service pack levels, optimisation, etc), the preference to… Read more

 
To make it easier for others to audit the results of a script you have run on current production servers, I suggest two ways to best accomplish the debugging of the potentially problematic code. One would hope that such issues are dealt with already in a testing or development environment,… Read more