Grant Fritchey (8/1/2014)
cdm33.com (7/31/2014)
Janson, Grant and Ed,After poking around and reading what you had to say about what I wanted to do, I think I'm off to a good start. It's just a pain trying to do stuff without a lab sometimes.
Great forum by the way.
Thanks a lot,
Chris
Strong suggestion, get a test lab of some kind. A virtual machine running on VMware, HyperV, VirtualBox, anything, is good enough, so you can validate stuff before it goes to production.
And welcome to the forum.
Let me second Grant's suggestion. Even a decent desktop PC running SQL Server that sits under your desk is better than nothing. You don't even have to load it up with everything from production, just a good representation of your databases. The ideal scenario would be to have a copy of production sitting in test with the same hardware, SAN drives and everything else, but I don't know of anyone (including myself) who actually gets budget for that.