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
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Should you buy or build a monitoring system for your SQL Server? Todays' guest editorial from Grant Fritchey talks about the resistance to recommendations that many people seem to have.
2009-09-14
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Should you buy or build a monitoring system for your SQL Server? Todays' guest editorial from Grant Fritchey talks about the resistance to recommendations that many people seem to have.
2009-09-14
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Should you buy or build a monitoring system for your SQL Server? Todays' guest editorial from Grant Fritchey talks about the resistance to recommendations that many people seem to have.
2009-09-14
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I have not worked with SQL Server 7.0 in a loooong time. So when I received a call from a...
2009-09-14
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This article describes and demonstrates the problem of using asterisk to select all fields from a table within a table function. (from Apr 2008)
2009-09-11 (first published: 2008-04-30)
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Moore's Law has been in the front of technical people's minds for years. However is the end of it's applicability to our world near? This Friday Steve Jones asks if you pay attention to the news about processor hardware.
2009-09-11
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Moore's Law has been in the front of technical people's minds for years. However is the end of it's applicability to our world near? This Friday Steve Jones asks if you pay attention to the news about processor hardware.
2009-09-11
557 reads
Moore's Law has been in the front of technical people's minds for years. However is the end of it's applicability to our world near? This Friday Steve Jones asks if you pay attention to the news about processor hardware.
2009-09-11
571 reads
SQL Server Service Broker provides support for building asynchronous messaging and queuing applications with the SQL Server Database Engine. This paper describes a large scale customer scenario and the techniques employed in scaling Service Broker to process tens of thousands of messages per second on one server.
2009-09-11
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By Vinay Thakur
Transparent Data Encryption(TDE): TDE was initially introduced in SQL Server 2008 Enterprise Edition; this...
By Steve Jones
Only a little break for me. I’m actually heading to Las Vegas today for ...
By Steve Jones
I have a presentation on finding balance in your career that got quite a...
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When thinking of the Identity property for auto incrementing columns and sequences for the same action, which can be used with the BIGINT data type?
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