Well, this has been a great "conference season" but I'm also glad that it's over for a bit. In the past 4 weeks, Paul and I have been to Vienna (check out Paul's post here), Barcelona (for TechED EMEA ITPro), Las Vegas (for SQL Connections) and finally to Seattle (for PASS). We live in Redmond [...]
Kimberly L. Tripp
Improving my SQL skills through your questions!
Conference craziness comes to a close… (and DVD information)
Posted on: November 23, 2008 5:34 pm
Virtualization with SQL Server
Posted on: November 14, 2008 12:06 pm
This is something that both Paul and I want to research more but, there have been a lot of questions about this recently. So, I thought I'd pull together a quick post of some important resources if you're interested in virtualization. 1) You should know what the support implications are – Bob Ward (Microsoft PSS [...]
Transaction Log VLFs – too many or too few?
Posted on: November 13, 2008 12:42 pm
(Be sure to join our community to get our monthly newsletter with exclusive content, advance notice of classes with discount codes, and other SQL Server goodies!) Way back in June 2005, I blogged about '8 Steps to better transaction log throughput'. I did this blog post after seeing (again and again) overly fragmented transaction logs… Transaction [...]
SQL Server 2008 Central Management Servers – have you seen these?
Posted on: November 9, 2008 3:24 pm
There's a new feature of SQL Server 2008 that during beta was called a Configuration Server… In RTM it was renamed to a Central Management Server. It's not overly obvious and without knowing how cool it can be – you might skip right by it. And, if you're using SQL Server 2008 to manage 2000, [...]
