TechNet Magazine: May 2010 SQL Q&A column
The May edition of TechNet Magazine is available on the web now and has the latest installment of my regular SQL Q&A column. This month's topics are: How to change the file locations for a user...
View ArticleWhitepaper on high-availability architectures published
The 20-page whitepaper I wrote this Spring for the SQL team has just been published. This whitepaper is titled Proven SQL Server Architectures for High Availability and Disaster Recovery and ties in...
View ArticleSurvey: monitoring database mirroring
In my survey for this week, I'd like to know what you monitor if you're using database mirroring. [Edit: The survey has closed now. See here for the results.] I'll report on the results during the...
View ArticleSurvey: database mirroring latency between servers
In my survey for this week, I'd like to know what you what the network latency is between your mirroring principal and mirror servers, and what kind of mirroring you're using. I'll report on the...
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Importance of monitoring a database mirroring session
Last week I kicked off a survey about how you monitor your database mirroring sessions. See here for the original post. Here are the results of the survey: The "Other" values were: 6 people monitor...
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Importance of network latency when using database mirroring
Last week I kicked off a survey about network latencies and database mirroring. See here for the original post. Here are the results of the survey: I was really interested to see whether the...
View ArticleTechNet Magazine: July 2011 SQL Q&A column
The July edition of TechNet Magazine is available on the web now and has the latest installment of my regular SQL Q&A column. This month's topics are: Deferred log truncation from concurrent data...
View ArticleA SQL Server DBA myth a day: (30/30) backup myths
(Look in the Misconceptions blog category for the rest of the month’s posts and check out the 60-page PDF with all the myths and misconceptions blog posts collected together when you join our Insider...
View ArticleDatabase mirroring: avoiding ‘cannot obtain a LOCK resource’ problems
This is an interesting case that came up recently, and that I’ve seen a few times before, but which I haven’t seen explained anywhere. Using database mirroring, you may see 1204 and 1454 errors on the...
View ArticleWhen is fast recovery used?
It’s been a bit light on technical posts here over the last few months but now that summer’s over I’ll be ramping up again with lots of cool stuff planned. First up is a question that came up on the...
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