January 27, 2011 2:00 PM
Posted by: Denny Cherry
Dev Connections,
In Person Events,
SQL ServerIn case you missed me when I was in Tampa last week at the awesome SQL Saturday 62 event, all is not lost. I'll be back at the Dev Connections March 27th-30th, 2011.
I've got three sessions scheduled for this...
January 26, 2011 6:57 PM
Posted by: Denny Cherry
Buck Woody,
In Person Events,
Jonathan Kehayias,
Problems,
Pual Randal,
Speaking,
SQL PASS,
SQL PASS 2010,
SQL Server,
SSWUG,
Wendy PastrickSo a couple of nights ago Paul Randal (Blog | Twitter), Wendy Pastrick (Blog | Twitter), Jonathan Kehayias...
January 24, 2011 11:20 PM
Posted by: Denny Cherry
AlwaysOn,
SQL PASS,
SQL Server,
SQL Server 11,
SQL Server 2012So it is time for another vote for the second category that I have a SQL Rally session submitted for. This time the vote is for the "Enterprise Database Administration & Deployment" track. I've got a session up titled "Using SQL...
January 24, 2011 3:00 PM
Posted by: Denny Cherry
Book,
Security,
SQL ServerSo, I'm guessing that my first solo book must be getting close to shipping. You can now flip through the first 11 pages of "Securing SQL Server" (
January 24, 2011 2:00 PM
Posted by: Denny Cherry
Social Commentary,
SQL Server,
StorageSo I got an email from someone (and yes he told me that I can publish this post about it) because he was having an argument with his storage / systems team about LUN config for the SQL Servers. He wanted smaller LUNs so that they could be more easily moved around if performance problems showed up...
January 18, 2011 2:00 PM
Posted by: Denny Cherry
Data Security,
Database security,
SQL PASS,
SQL ServerThe SQL PASS organization has taken a different approach to session selection for the SQL Rally than they normally do for the annual summit. Instead of a full program committee which selects sessions then announces them, they are leaving the session selection up to the community via a vote. ...
January 18, 2011 5:22 AM
Posted by: Denny Cherry
Data Encryption,
SQL Saturday,
SQL Saturday 62,
SQL Server,
StorageI gave two talks at the recent SQL Saturday 62 in Tampa, FL and I had a blast doing it. As promised I've posted them on Monday (it is still Monday my time, so that counts right)?
January 17, 2011 2:00 PM
Posted by: Denny Cherry
Cache,
SQL Server,
StorageThe short answer is as much as possible.
The more exact answer is you typically can’t allocate cache to a specific LUN. You can usually carve up the total amount of cache into read and write cache. You want as much write cache as possible so that the database writes directly to the disk as...
January 13, 2011 2:00 PM
Posted by: Denny Cherry
iSCSI,
SQL Server,
StorageYou’ve really got two questions here. The first is if I like iSCSI for SQL, and the second is if I like NAS for SQL. NAS doesn’t support iSCSI as iSCSI is a SAN technology.
iSCSI is just fine for SQL Server as long as the server and the storage are on the same subnet, and the network has...
