WAN Optimization Solutions–Input Needed Please!

I was just wondering if anyone has a WAN optimization solution as part of their infrastructure.  I have a few...

10 More Days Until Inspiration! - SQLInspireNYC 2011

Can't believe we're ONLY 10 days out from what's shaping up to be quite an extraordinary awesome event!  We've been...

Backup/restore/checkdb/shrinkfile progress

Have you ever wonderet how long you need to wait for a backup or restore command to complete? If you...

Being an Effective DBA Remotely

Do not let the phrase “out of sight, out of mind” apply to you.
As Data Professionals a lot of us...

BI Pyramid (read categories of users in a BI solution)

Purpose of any business intelligence solution is to provide users information and enable them to make intelligent decisions that benefit their...

Fame and Social Media

Reading this post about Alton Brown from Good Eats triggered me to think on the topic. It looks like initially...

Fatal Error Emails This Morning…

So every morning I check my email on my phone.  Normally, I don’t see any error emails from SQL Server...

Free Business Intelligence Workshop

If you are in and around Dallas next week drop by my FREE half-day Business Intelligence workshop.  The details are...

Get Inspired – SQL Inspire 2011 New York

Coming up next week is the SQL Inspire 2011 event in New York City. It’s an event with a number...

Log file size after backup and restore

Quick summary of the post:

A restoration of a full database backup retains the log file size before restoration.

Now...