October 12, 2009 11:00 AM
Posted by: Denny Cherry
SQL,
UpgradingThat's right folks. Once you upgrade SQL Server versions there is no going back. Continued »
October 10, 2009 10:58 PM
Posted by: Denny Cherry
Backup & recovery,
Cell Phone,
Data LossAnother major data loss is showing that if you want to keep your data, its up to you to back it up. T-Mobile customers who have a sidekick phone are being told this weekend that they...
October 7, 2009 11:00 AM
Posted by: Denny Cherry
Service Broker,
SQL ServerOver on the SecurityFightClub.com site I wrote a post about why database servers shouldn't be on the Internet.
Denny
October 7, 2009 7:50 AM
Posted by: Denny Cherry
DTS,
SearchSQLServer.com,
SQL Server 2008,
SSISI recently published an article on SearchSQLServer.com about DTS and SSIS where I talk about some of the differences. Obvsiolly I didn't cover all the differences between DTS and SSIS, just...
October 5, 2009 6:42 PM
Posted by: Denny Cherry
In Person Events,
Quest SoftwareShhh... Don't tell anyone, put I'm planning on sneaking into Quest's presentation this Friday (which in itself is a feet when half the people there know you by site) grabbing some of the free lunch, and giving a quick presentation on Virtualization....
October 5, 2009 11:00 AM
Posted by: Denny Cherry
Installation,
SQL,
SQL Server 2005When installing SQL Server 2005 SP3 you may get an error about the password being to short, and it may have nothing to do with your sa password. It's because the Install Scripts are trying to create a certificate with a password which doesn't meet your domain's password requirements.
If you...
October 3, 2009 9:50 PM
Posted by: Denny Cherry
Cade Metz,
Google,
John Skeet,
MVP,
The RegisterRecent C# programming Guru John Skeet who has been a Microsoft MVP for a number of years was advised by his employer (Google) that he shouldn't accept the Microsoft MVP award this year.
Personally I don't...
October 2, 2009 7:14 PM
Posted by: Denny Cherry
Clustering,
iSCSI,
SQL,
Starwind,
WebcastAll,
On October 21st, 2009 at 11am (Pacific) / 2pm (Eastern) I'm going to be presenting a free Webcast on how to setup a Windows 2008 Cluster when using iSCSI. Additionally I'll be going over some tuning tricks you can use to improve the performance of your iSCSI network.
October 1, 2009 11:00 AM
Posted by: Denny Cherry
Clustering,
SQLWhile many of the technologies used for HA and DR are similar (or even the same) HA and DR are two different types of events which should be handled differently.
