May 1, 2012 2:00 PM
Posted by: Denny Cherry
SQL Excursions,
SQL PASS,
SQL ServerSo it appears that May is going to be one of the busier travel months for me this year (at least so far). With three important week long events scheduled for this month it's going to be a hell of a month.
First is SQL Rally where I'm in Dallas Texas from May 7th-12th (I've got a pre-con on the...
April 30, 2012 2:00 PM
Posted by: Denny Cherry
Book,
Robert Cain,
SQL Server,
SQL Server 2012One of the many projects which I had the pleasure of working on during the second half of 2011 and the first quarter of 2012 was Wrox's
April 26, 2012 2:00 PM
Posted by: Denny Cherry
Amazon,
Database security,
Securing SQL Server,
SQL Injection,
SQL Server,
SQL Server 2012In case you missed my announcement earlier this week over on SecuringSQLServer.com...
I'm pleased to be able to announce that the
April 23, 2012 5:25 PM
Posted by: Denny Cherry
Budget,
Computer Science,
Social Commentary,
SQL Server,
STEM,
University of FloridaThis past week the University of Florida decided that they no longer need to teach their customers (let’s be realistic with decisions...
April 23, 2012 2:00 PM
Posted by: Denny Cherry
SQL Server,
SQL Server 2012,
Windows 2008 R2Microsoft has recently released hot fix 388724 under MS KB 2687741 which resolves a performance issue when failing over a SQL Server 2012 Availability Group from one replica to another.
The basic jist of the problem is that there was an...
April 19, 2012 2:00 PM
Posted by: Denny Cherry
Connection Issues,
SQL ServerOne of the things that people will need to change to their applications when using AlwaysOn under SQL Server 2012 will be that the applications will need to have retry logic added to the application so that if the SQL Server is down that the application can retry the connection.
Now this...
April 18, 2012 8:30 AM
Posted by: Denny Cherry
In Person Events,
SQL ServerCome and join me in Poland, May 24th, 2012 (24-05-2012) at SQL Day 2012. During this day long session we will be looking at storage and virtualization from a...
April 16, 2012 2:00 PM
Posted by: Denny Cherry
In Person Events,
SQL Saturday,
SQL ServerI've uploaded my slide decks from SQL Saturday 111. The sessions can be found on the session pages for the two sessions. I gave two sessions at SQL Saturday 111 in Atlanta, GA. The first was
April 12, 2012 2:00 PM
Posted by: Denny Cherry
Error Message,
Grant Fritchey,
Hyper-V,
SQL Server,
SQL Server 2000,
SQL Server 2005,
SQL Server 2008,
SQL Server 2008 R2If you have physical SQL Servers that you plan on moving into a virtual environment you'll want to double check your affinity mask settings before actually moving the machine from a physical server to a VM when using P2V software. The reason for this is that if the affinity mask is set for...
