SQL Connections is in less than two months now and our pre-con and post-con workshops are filling up fast – checkout my previous blog post here for the full list of what we’re presenting. Now we’ve finalized our TechEd US sessions with Microsoft and can let you all know that we’re going to be there [...]
Paul S. Randal
In Recovery...
Conferences coming up: SQL Connections in April and TechEd US in June
Posted on: February 25, 2008 4:11 am
Search Engine Q&A #16: Concurrent log and full backups
Posted on: February 21, 2008 2:23 am
Here’s a question that came in – what changed in SQL Server 2005 that allows concurrent log and full backups? First a little background, in case you didn’t know about the change in behavior. In SQL Server 2000, a concurrent log backup with either a full or diff backup (I’ll just say ‘full’ from now [...]
Administrivia
Posted on: February 19, 2008 9:10 pm
A few short notes this morning regarding the blogs and other stuff. We had a big outage over the weekend, which rather embarrassingly manifested itself as ‘out-of-disk-space’ errors for anyone trying to get to any of our blogs. As you all know we preach about pro-active monitoring of data and log file space, so this [...]
SQL Server 2008 JumpStart
Posted on: February 15, 2008 12:38 am
Phew – last week Kimberly and I spent 3 days teaching the ins-and-outs of SQL Server 2008 for DBAs/IT-Pros to about 130 Microsoft SQL Server experts and MVPs (like Kalen Delaney, Adam Machanic and Ron Talmage). This was the (95% complete) Beta delivery of a course we’ve been developing for the last six months for Microsoft [...]
Wow – so many blogs!
Posted on: February 14, 2008 5:58 pm
Last year I posted on my old blog about the active SQL Server team blogs. I just happened to post on February 14th and so in every class Kimberly teaches, she makes fun of how romantic I was to post that on Valentine's Day. So what better thing to post this year than an update [...]
CHECKDB From Every Angle: Example DBCC CHECKDB run-times
Posted on: February 12, 2008 8:35 pm
Almost a year ago to the day I asked a question on my old blog – how long does *your* CHECKDB take to run? Well, I had a bunch of replies but I never got around to posting the results. I was reminded of this recently so threw together some graphs of the results. I've [...]
Updated aggregated feeds
Posted on: February 7, 2008 1:03 pm
After many reminders (thanks Adam Machanic!) I’ve added Conor and Simon to the two aggregated feeds over all the SQLskills.com blogs. There are two feeds: SQL Server 2008 Category Posts Provides previous 30 day’s posts http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.run?Age=30+days+ago&_id=mhCQs_B13BGv3jGgjtzu1g&_render=rss All posts Provides previous 20 day’s posts http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.run?Age=20+days+ago&_id=vv9PBOp13BGAc67kLO2fWQ&_render=rss The amount of content is really growing as Simon and Conor [...]
Search Engine Q&A #15: Mirrored backups
Posted on: February 5, 2008 5:39 pm
This post is based on one from my old MSDN blog but the topic has come up a few times in recent days so I want to revamp it and re-post. There are two things that confuse people about mirrored backups – can you mix-n-match backup devices from the mirrors, and what exactly do the [...]
SQL Server 2008: Enabling FILESTREAM through T-SQL and SSMS
Posted on: February 4, 2008 7:57 pm
The second post in my series on FILESTREAM (see here) deals with how to enable FILESTREAM through T-SQL and using SSMS. You can’t just create FILESTREAM data – you have to specifically enable it at the instance level and then possibly restart the instance or host computer. The reason for this is that there’s a [...]
Search Engine Q&A #14: Beware 3rd party file-system drivers with DBCC CHECKDB
Posted on: February 4, 2008 6:36 am
Here’s an issue that I thought was a one-off but it just popped up again over the weekend so I want to publicize it. DBA runs a DBCC CHECKDB and gets output like the following: Msg 5172, Level 16, State 15, Line 1The header for file ‘E:\Data\namechanged.mdf:MSSQL_DBCC14′ is not a valid database file header. The [...]
Personal: Final day in Beijing sightseeing (lots of photos)
Posted on: February 3, 2008 4:50 am
Now we’re back at home and working very strange hours as we deal with jet-lag. The flight back from Beijing to Vancouver was a great flight but with weird seats in business class – individual pods instead of actual seats. Nice to be able do lie down flat but not very wide – not the [...]
