It's been a while since I did a Where In The World Are Paul and Kimberly blog post, so here's one from a trip we did at home yesterday. We took the Bainbridge Island ferry across Puget Sound and toured the area around Sequim, WA to see the lavender farms and coastal scenery. Here's an [...]
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Photos: Lavender farms and coastal scenery around Sequim, WA
Posted on: July 25, 2009 11:33 am
New whitepaper on SQL Server 2008 failover clustering
Posted on: July 23, 2009 5:04 pm
The SQLCAT team has published a very detailed (and very long) whitepaper on implementing failover clustering with SQL Server 2008. There are some major differences from 2000 and 2005 related to setup and SP/CU installs so this is worth reading even if you're experienced with 2005 failover clusters. You can download it from http://download.microsoft.com/download/6/9/D/69D1FEA7-5B42-437A-B3BA-A4AD13E34EF6/SQLServer2008FailoverCluster.docx and the link's [...]
New whitepaper on Resource Governor
Posted on: July 18, 2009 12:19 pm
A new whitepaper has been published that comprehensively covers the Resource Governor feature of SQL Server 2008, written by fellow MVP Aaron Bertrand and SQL PM Boris Baryshnikov. I read through this a while back (but didn't have the bandwidth to do a full technical review) and it's an excellent whitepaper with lots of code [...]
TechNet Magazine: August 2009 SQL Q&A column
Posted on: July 17, 2009 1:57 pm
The August 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: Proactive page checksum failure detection Why GUIDs make for bad clustered index keys Possible problems using a log shipping secondary for reporting Recovery model choice for log size [...]
Public SQL Server Immersion Event in Dublin in September
Posted on: July 10, 2009 3:36 pm
Kimberly and I will be teaching a week-long public Immersion Event in Dublin, September 21-25, in partnership with our good friends at Prodata and Microsoft Ireland. The class will cover: Day 1: SQL Server Internals (On-disk structures, index internals, logging, recovery, transaction log architecture) Day 2: Designing for Performance (data types, table and index partitioning) Day [...]
Wasting time on vacation
Posted on: July 6, 2009 1:54 pm
This isn't a SQL Server blog post so doesn't count against my vacation. Just finished making the Lego model of the original Death Star that I got for Christmas. Took me about 24 hours altogether. Click the photo for a larger version. No need to grow up when there's Lego to play with :-)
July Vacation
Posted on: July 1, 2009 8:12 am
Well – the first half of the year is over and it's been a pretty busy time for Kimberly and I. I only managed to get one day at home in June but I'm at home for whole month of July, and this year I'm taking a proper break. I'm going to be essentially dark [...]
