The 35-page whitepaper on high availability I wrote for the SQL team over the summer has been published on MSDN. It's a 2-300 level whitepaper that describes the various high-availability technologies in SQL Server 2008 and how they can be used to mitigate disasters. It's chock-full of links to other whitepapers, technical articles and Books [...]
Paul S. Randal
In Recovery...
SQL Server 2008 High Availability whitepaper published on MSDN
Posted on: September 28, 2009 12:42 pm
Physical database layout vs. database size
Posted on: April 27, 2009 12:21 am
A couple of weeks ago I kicked off the latest survey, on what the physical layout of your databases are and why you have them that way (see here for the survey). I let the survey run for a while to get a good sampling, and I wasn't disappointed, with over 1000 responses! Here are [...]
Weekly survey: does size really matter – or is it what you do with it?
Posted on: April 10, 2009 3:05 pm
This week's survey is a little more complicated. I'm interested in the physical layout of your databases. I've got four surveys, for a variety of database sizes. Please vote multiple times in each survey, as you see fit – and by all means forward this link to your friends/clients/etc or re-blog/tweet it. I'm going to report [...]
Search Engine Q&A #21: File header pages, and file header corruption
Posted on: July 25, 2008 2:10 pm
Following on from my previous post on boot pages and boot page corruption, I’ve been asked about file header pages – and I was already planning this post as the next in the series. So what’s a file header page? Every data file in a database has the very first 8kb page (i.e. page 0 [...]
Available for download: Our High-Availability hands-on labs and SQL Server 2008 JumpStart materials
Posted on: March 12, 2008 5:23 pm
A couple of weeks ago I blogged about the three tracks of the SQL Server 2008 JumpStart course that SQLskills.com taught internally for Microsoft and some MVPs – see here for details. Well, the content is now available to download! Note that this was based on CTP-5 (November 2007 CTP) and there have been *lots* [...]
Conference Questions Pot-Pourri #5: Database snapshots, and creating a snapshot of a single filegroup
Posted on: November 14, 2007 7:32 am
One of the sessions we did yesterday at IT Forum was an Instructor-Led Lab on database snapshots, an Enterprise Edition feature of SQL Server 2005. Database snapshots are not particularly well known in the DBA community and there are many misconceptions about them. The session generated a bunch of questions, some of which I’ll answer [...]
