seen that a lot. a lot of SAN vendors will use RAID5 arrays and then the software will carve out your volumes from the big array. it's very possible the...

added your special columns to my table for this so that it now looks like

USE [Performance]

GO

/****** Object: Table [dbo].[perf_index_usage_stats] Script Date: 06/16/2011 15:41:13 ******/

SET ANSI_NULLS ON

GO

SET...

Jim Johnston (6/16/2011)

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We have been mandated to virtualize all of our SQL Servers (Tier 3 -> Tier1). We have had discussions with VMware SQL experts and short of telling...

missed this 2 years ago but will check this out now and see how it fits in with what i built in the last 6 months. i have the DMV's...

i recently did a test conversion of 2 SQL servers to VMware. a total of 3GB of databases. the developer i worked with who owns the data gave me some...

we're in the process of going to windows 2008 r2 and sql 2008 r2 or denali. we put windows 2008 r2/sql 2005 on our QA/UAT servers for the application testing....

Lorenzo DBA (5/26/2011)

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I would agree that Virtualization is the answer and is cost effective for both the hardware and licensing perspective. If you licence the by ESX host instead...

RyderD (5/17/2011)

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I do appreciate the article. I really do hope that the root cause of the corruption is explained.

I must say that in 5-ish years of 2005,...

Mark S. Rasmussen (5/16/2011)

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Interesting story! You don't mention anything about what caused the corruption however?

One thing is fixing the corruption, but I'd be very wary of just restoring the system...

James Stover (4/21/2011)

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Sometimes in large organizations - particularly government - you will see jobs advertised with very specific skills and experience. I've never been able to prove this, but I...

i read on some internet forum last year when amazon was having issues that the only way to make money as a cloud provider is to oversubscribe. looked up amazon's...

one of the easiest ways is to use a product like Operations Manager or some other management software that requires SQL server. play around with the small databases and get...

6pm on a friday? my wife is home by 3 most days

ever hear of this cool tech known as vpn? the other day i had to press the power button...

this isn't a new thing, when i first left the army and was looking for a job i saw that all the listings want everything in the IT world. I...

Eric Hobbs (4/15/2011)

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Hopefully I'm not being dim here, but this seems like a lot of effort and increased overhead on your SQL database, for something that can be handled much...