There are some skills which are extensions of your instincts, and which you can only learn though years of experience. Matt Simmons has this brought home by the fact that he was recently minutes away from a data-loss disaster, and he doesn't quite know how he prevented it.
2012-12-13 (first published: 2010-03-25)
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This article describes how to use Microsoft SQL Server 2005 or Microsoft SQL Server 2008 log shipping to create a disaster recovery farm in a geographically distributed data center for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 with Service Pack 2 (SP2). By using this configuration, you can provide a disaster recovery site that provides current search results when a failover occurs. The article assumes that you are familiar with the concepts and terms presented in Plan for availability (Office SharePoint Server).
2009-10-09
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High-Availability depends on how quickly you can recover a production system after an incident that has caused a failure. This requires planning, and documentation. If you get a Disaster Recovery Plan wrong, it can make an incident into a catastrophe for the business. Hugo Shebbeare discusses some essentials, describes a typical system, and provides sample documentation.
2009-09-14
4,158 reads
Many articles on database administration take the perspective of trying to help you do your job better. We thought we might take a different tack and poke a little fun at some of more egregious mistakes we've seen over the years at IT shops.
2009-08-27
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Two sets of scripts to help setup mirroring or remove mirroring - handy during disaster recovery exercise
2010-06-07 (first published: 2009-03-17)
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Tjay Belt brings us a quick and easy DR solution that might provide you some protection if you don't have a DR plan and want some lessons learned in this area.
2008-07-31
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James DiMauro brings us a story of how a transaction log was deleted and then recreated. (from July 2008)
2009-08-07 (first published: 2008-07-14)
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So, how do you prepare for a master rebuild and what do you do afterwards? Hopefully this checklist will give you an idea.
2008-07-08
4,416 reads
Have you seen disasters in your environment? I would bet you have at some point. Let's see if our top 13 disasters matches your experiences.
2008-06-24
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2008-04-22
4,256 reads
If you've ever loaded a 2 GB CSV into pandas just to run a...
By James Serra
What problem is Fabric Ontology trying to solve? For years, most data conversations have...
By Steve Jones
Recently I ran across some code that used a lot of QUOTENAME() calls. A...
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