On May 13 and May 20, Ben DeBow and I will be giving two days worth (six sessions) of webinars dedicated to the topic of consolidation with SQL Server. There is no requirement to attend both days, and you can do just one, or both. These webinars are not free, but are great value for the money and your boss does not need to send you anywhere – you can… Read More
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Come See Me at World of Windows Server in Singapore Dec 8 – 10.
Well, it’s official – the website just went up. Can’t hide it anymore … I’m delivering a 3-day masterclass on consolidation and virtualization at World of Windows Server in Singapore as well as delivering two sessions (although the current website shows two different, it is going to be a two parter on clustering). I’m very exicted and honored to have been asked to do this. If you don’t live in Singapore… Read More
Consolidation Using SQL Server 2008 Whitepaper Now Posted to MSDN!
I’ve been talking about it for awhile, but it’s finally here – my update of the old SQL Server 2000 consolidation whitepaper. It just went live less than an hour ago. The basic info including the link to the download of the Word document can be found here:http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee692366.aspx or you can just download the Word doc from http://download.microsoft.com/download/D/B/D/DBDE7972-1EB9-470A-BA18-58849DB3EB3B/SQLServer2008Consolidation.docx. I hope you find it useful!
Some Updates and A Bit of Technical Content (Hyper-V/Live Migration/iSCSI)
It’s been a busy month between client work, travel, playing bi-weekly with a big band, and the holidays … as well as getting ready to go into the studio to start my first new album in 10 years in a week! First, the updates: Thanks to the folks at SQL Saturday in Redmond – I had a lot of fun and the audience was great. Even though I was the last… Read More
Is Virtualization the DBA's Friend?
With the SQL Server consolidation whitepaper a bit delayed, I wanted to touch on a hotbed topic I’ve talked about in other areas and ways. Since it’s my blog, I can address this topic in a different way than a formal whitepaper. Brent Ozar also blogged about some of this recently, and it looks like we’re on the same page! Anyway … SQL Server Consolidation – The Quick Skinny Consolidation… Read More
Consolidation, Application Compatibility (or lack thereof), and SQL Server
I do a bit of work in the consolidation space, and speak about it a lot. The update to my old SQL Server 2000 consolidation planning whitepaper is almost done and I should be doing a webcast next month. But I wanted to address one thing here in the interim: the biggest sticking point is not moving databases or maintenance plans; it's applications. There are lots of aspects to this… Read More
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Performance tuning can be performed on many levels including the hardware, software, schema, code base. Focus on the hardware and software configuration first as these need to be optimal and known before reviewing the schema and code base. I always say, “Clean the room up first so we can better see what we are dealing with.”