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SQLRally, just proud to be in there with you
What did I submit? Several months ago, I submitted two sessions to SQLRally with great enthusiasm as detailed in this post. The first “The Great High Availability Hustle” I had been thinking about for...
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What is DR?
“What is DR?” -I was recently asked this question after talking about SQL Clustering, Mirroring and the like and the answer is quite simple right? The question was asked not because they didn’t know...
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Clustering Nodes on different subnets?
It’s rather ironic that the answer to a question that came my way recently, had been sitting in my feed-reader for the last month. Apart from the length of time that the item/s had been sitting there,...
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SQLBits 8 – finis!
Nearly two weeks has passed after another SQLBits and what another fabulous event. After an incredibly early morning train journey down to Brighton for the excellent Thursday training session with...
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SQLRally Scalable Shared Database Demo Redux
Several weeks ago now I had the honour of presenting at the very first ever SQLRally event in Orlando Florida and I gave a presentation around the very large (no pun intended) subject of scaling out...
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T-SQL Tuesday #19 – Your mistake… my problem
This month’s T-SQL Tuesday is brought to you by Allen Kinsel (blog|twitter) who contributes a great amount of his time to the SQL Community and so we can only say a huge thank you for your efforts and...
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Lets keep it short – problem creating availability group listeners
Someone once said to me that he thought I should work as a GUI tester since I always seemed to find problems in the UI after I highlighted a problem to him that I’d found in Linux Gnome that he had...
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Weight doesn’t ALWAYS have to be AlwaysOn
One thing I keep hearing myself mentioning more and more in conversation (and most recently in a discussion group at SQLBits a few days ago) is the ability to configure your Windows Cluster Quorum for...
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Remember your OS when upgrading to SQL 2012
Probably as far back as the end of last year when I first started putting material together for my Enter the Dragon and Moves like Jagger presentations and giving very early mash up presentations of...
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10 reasons why I HAte you!
(or My Top Ten High Availability annoyances) Designing, planning, deploying, administrating and recovering (known from now on as DePlanDeAR – and pronounced in the tone of a Caribbean Grandma :) ) a...
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Problems creating Windows Cluster through Powershell
Creating a Windows Cluster is surprisingly easy, but every now and again you run into small problems which irritate and are not really helped by the error messages – a problem which is exacerbated by...
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