October 31, 2012 8:49 PM
Posted by: Colin Smith
DatabaseFor a few years I went without paying for cable or satellite television. It cost me some money up front, but I was able to save about 2500 dollars after all my expenses based on a 100 dollar per month cable bill and the amount of time that I was not paying. Recently, I have connected again....
October 31, 2012 8:30 PM
Posted by: Colin Smith
DatabaseTo use Delphix for SQL Server, you must use ISCSI disk. This is not really an issue, but Delphix does not automatically set ISCSI up to automount as I think that it should. So the other day, I had to reboot my PPT server, that is the one with the databases in a recovering state and always applying...
October 29, 2012 5:00 PM
Posted by: Colin Smith
DatabaseThe other day I talked about Delphix. I think this is a great product and I have talked about how it can save you, the DBA time and money. You want to save time...
October 29, 2012 3:37 PM
Posted by: Colin Smith
DatabaseSince I am getting old, lat night I was thinking back to my youth and how I thought that working at McDonalds was great. Or any place really. I just thought that having a job to go to every day was great, and do not get me wrong, it is. Any job is a good job and I do not put myself above doign...
October 26, 2012 8:25 PM
Posted by: Colin Smith
DatabaseDelphix, simply put is a database virtualization tool. That is what it does and you may ask why is that meaningful and why would I ever want to use something like this. I have many answers to that question and I am sure that others have many...
October 24, 2012 9:45 PM
Posted by: Colin Smith
DatabaseNow that the vendor of the software that I have been Beta testing has gone public for SQL Server support, I do not feel that I have to hide who they are. Delphix is the vendor of the virtualization platform. Go check them out. They are doing some really cool things...
October 24, 2012 9:36 PM
Posted by: Colin Smith
DatabaseThis year I decided to go to a haunted house. I thought it would be a lot of fun and I was hoping that it would be scary as well.So I went to the 13th Floor here in Phoenix. This is supposed to be one of the better haunted houses in the country. I got some...
October 24, 2012 9:22 PM
Posted by: Colin Smith
DatabaseRecently my team started using CName records instead of server names for applications to connect to. This makes moving things around on backend much easier. So here is the script that I am using.
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October 23, 2012 7:30 PM
Posted by: Colin Smith
DatabaseWe recently had our bits upgraded to the latest and since that we have had some issues with the product. We have run into issues where the SQL Server that has copies of your databases in a restoring state, have stopped grabbing the log backups and applying them. This is an issue as it has made me...
