DBAs – soon to disappear??
Heres a thought
With all the monitoring tools and performance gauging software available on the market these days, will there ever...
2010-05-07
594 reads
Justin H-Davies
Log Shipping Problem
Log Shipping Issue (encountered by Abi Chapagai May 7th)
I had set up log shipping between two servers few weeks ago....
2010-05-07
7,601 reads
Daily SQL Server 2008 New Feature
Every day for the next couple of weeks, I aim to highlight one of SQL Server 2008’s new features, simply...
2010-05-06
575 reads
Script of the week
Every week I will scour the internet for useful SQL scripts and post my favorite on here.
This weeks comes from...
2010-04-23
391 reads
SQL Server 2008 R2 reaches RTM
On April 21 Microsoft announced SQL Server 2008 R2 has been released to manufacturing.
The downloads on Technet/MSDN on May 3....
2010-04-22
402 reads
SQL Server Agent
Found out this week – that we should be restarting this service at least once a week ! (thus allowing the CPU...
2010-04-20
377 reads
Difference between log shipping and database mirroring
Compiled by Abi Chapagai (April 2010)
Implementation of High Availability depends in the need of the business. Each of the technologies...
2010-04-18
24,365 reads
SQL Server 2008 Database Mirroring – Abi Chapagai
Introduction
In any distributed environment, database synchronization between two different locations or different servers’ is very essential for mission critical applications....
2010-04-18
2,245 reads
SQL Log Shipping – by Abi Chapagai
SQL Server 2008 High Availability Solution: Log Shipping
In SQL Server, transaction log provides an ability to recover a database...
2010-03-19
1,696 reads
Self-Managed Oracle Databases – Good or Bad ?!
Should we as DBAs be worried that we will become surplus to requirements if Oracle continues to enhance its capabilities to deliver a self-managing...
2010-02-23
383 reads
Blogs
2025 Wrapped for Steve
By Steve Jones
I’ve often done some analysis of my year in different ways. Last year I...
The Book of Redgate: Spread across the world
By Steve Jones
This was Redgate in 2010, spread across the globe. First the EU/US Here’s Asia...
Merry Christmas
By John
Today is Christmas and while I do not expect anybody to actual be reading...
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The Last Binary Value of the Year
What does this code return?
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