One worrisome scenario is SME's or even larger companies going to the cloud "because everyone else is". I remember a conversation back in 2000 where one client asked the...

Grant Fritchey (7/3/2014)

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That might not work...

vsamantha35 (7/3/2014)

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Hi Experts,

I need some guidance on this.

Recently I have attended a job interview for sql server database administration and was asked to speak about one of the critical issue...

Thanks Erin, very helpful.

qh

Glad I created some more discussion. 😀

As an aside I got married at the Church were old Wordsworth is buried.

qh

Thanks for the comments. Yes it was a literary wisecrack but I have mentioned cloud storage to some supposedly "IT people" not just clients and have received blank looks....

Great article, will be looking to use this.

qh

Great article, thanks.

qh

"You've just countered your own argument there, by deploying nothing but Windows clusters to support purely clustered instances of SQL Server you're forcing support of this onto others."

Not really, I...

Bill (DBAOnTheGo) (4/16/2014)

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Personally I'd like to make sure this is out there. Francis Apel, we do appreciate the article and you writing here. Not everyone will agree and in honesty...

Just a FYI:

Lenovo Forum here, seems a few people are running 16GB RAM in a T420s just fine. (page 2 of thread)

Kingston Hyper x 1600 2 x 8GB.

qh

James Horsley (3/27/2014)

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Crucial have a compatibility tool that will list modules with guaranteed compatibility - from that it looks like the T420s only supports 8GB total as 2x4GB

DDR3 PC3-12800, DDR3...

Can I ask you what memory make/type you...

Nadrek (3/24/2014)

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Assuming you mean a Lenovo Thinkpad T420, you could try any of these DDR3 8GB PC-10600 1.35v SODIMM modules - NO GUARANTEE whatsoever, but g.Skill, Crucial and Corsair have...

Have played with Virtual Box and recently I managed to get a DC, + 2 SQL 2008 R2 cluster nodes all running Win2008R2, but I only have 8GB on my...