May 27, 2009 2:00 PM
Posted by: Denny Cherry
Forums,
ServerFault.comThis week ServerFault.com has transissioned from Beta to fully live. This means that you no longer need to have the beta access code to access the site.
Hopefully you find the site as useful as I have while it was in beta.
Denny
May 25, 2009 11:00 AM
Posted by: Denny Cherry
Lock Pages,
SQL,
VMwareWith the recent release of the ability for the Lock Pages in Memory setting to be used on SQL Server 2005 and 2008 Standard Edition I see more and more people shooting them selves in the foot with this setting when running under VMware. I see this as becoming more of an issue now that this switch...
May 20, 2009 1:32 PM
Posted by: Denny Cherry
Beta,
ServerFault.comAs of Monday it's official, that I'm now one of the two moderators over at ServerFault.com. From what I understand this means I basically go through the list of posts that people have tagged as not being relevant to he site and remove them,...
May 20, 2009 12:16 AM
Posted by: Denny Cherry
EMC World,
EMC World 2009,
Storage Vmotion,
VMwareToday was day 2 of EMC World 2009. There were some great sessions today. I'm focused on two tracks this year, VMware and the CLARiiON product as we have just deployed both of these in our
May 19, 2009 5:24 AM
Posted by: Denny Cherry
EMC World,
EMC World 2009Thanks to my wife Kris reminding me that the SD card in my camera will also fit in my blackberry I've gotten the photo's uploaded to flickr.
Denny
May 18, 2009 1:28 PM
Posted by: Denny Cherry
EMC World,
EMC World 2009This morning is Day 1 of EMC World, so it's a perfect time to review yesterday.
Day 0 is all about getting to the show, and getting checked in. And of course the party.
The food was pretty good, as was the beer. The band sounded ok, but the sound guy wasn't all that great.
I'll be...
May 16, 2009 7:16 PM
Posted by: Denny Cherry
CLARiiON,
EMC,
EMC World,
EMC World 2009,
TwitterWell tomorrow begins my annual trek to EMC World. This year I'm headed back to Orlando as EMC World is being held at the Orange County Convention Center. As I've done the last couple of years I'll post as often as I can during the conference both on here on my blog, as well as on
May 14, 2009 11:00 AM
Posted by: Denny Cherry
MSMQ,
Open Source,
Outside Queue to SSB Adapter,
Service BrokerSomething that I think that Microsoft should include with the SQL Service Broker is an adapter so that MSMQ messages (and other messaging systems as well) will flow automatically into the SQL Service Broker. Since Microsoft hasn't gotten around to writing one I'm going to start.
It shouldn't...
May 11, 2009 11:00 AM
Posted by: Denny Cherry
distrib.exe,
Replication,
SQL Server 2000,
SQL Server 2005,
SQL Server 2008The official answer is to delete the subscriber and recreate it pushing a new snapshot to the subscriber.
The much quicker and easier method is as follows.
1. Stop the distribution agent on the machine that it's currently running on.
2. Disable the SQL Agent job that runs the distribution...
