The Voice of the DBA
Archives: April 2007
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We also lost power, which was a rude awakening. We had full laptop batteries, but no connectivity. I was taking kids to school and by the time I…
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Posted in The Voice of the DBA on 25 April 2007
Post SP2 Fixes
They do a good job explaining it and I'm actually releasing a link Monday to it so people can understand what's going on and what they should install to be current.
The one thing…
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Posted in The Voice of the DBA on 13 April 2007
Not 4GB
I saw this very interesting post from Hilton Locke at Microsoft on the issue. Apparently it's mostly hardware, depending on what you have, and an architectural decision that there are memory…
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Posted in The Voice of the DBA on 13 April 2007
The Data Warehouse Lifecycle Toolkit
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Posted in The Voice of the DBA on 6 April 2007
QA/QC
I'm not a great tester and I'm sure I'd have missed these things as well, but there's no excuse for Microsoft, with a SQL Server team of hundreds, to not regression check everything…
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Posted in The Voice of the DBA on 6 April 2007
Hot Fixes
I wrote about Hot Fixes being inclusive of previous hot fixes. Someone questioned this and so I went back to Simon's blog and checked his source. He's a SQL Server MVP (and a great guy, I got to meet him at the Summit last year) and he got it from…
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Posted in The Voice of the DBA on 3 April 2007