Target and actual SQL Server uptime survey results
Exactly five years ago I published survey results showing target uptime SLAs and actual uptime measurements. I re-ran the survey a few weeks ago to
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Exactly five years ago I published survey results showing target uptime SLAs and actual uptime measurements. I re-ran the survey a few weeks ago to
My latest feature article for TechNet Magazine has just been published in the April edition. It focuses on planning an HA/DR strategy within the confines
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
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
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
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
Yesterday on Twitter a few people expressed disgust at a conference slide listing transactional replication as a high-availability (HA) technology. I took exception to that
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
(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
(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
(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
Over the last week or so I've been helping the Product Support folks at Microsoft write a new KB article which discusses some of the
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
A few weeks ago I kicked off a survey on how you add geo-redundancy to a failover cluster (see here for the survey). The results
I'm moving away from strictly weekly surveys as they're a little demanding, especially when we're on the road. In this survey I'd like to know
In last week's survey I asked you two things, as a precursor to a whitepaper I'm writing for Microsoft The first question was what is
This week's survey is inspired by this morning's Kimberly+Paul hot-tub conversation around data-dependent routing vs. network load balancing, which then turned to SLAs. Yes, we
This week's survey is inspired from many stories I saw on the forums and Twitter this week – mostly bad, one good (someone I'm following
Jason Massie posted an interesting statistic yesterday – Facebook has 1.5 petabytes of image storage, and it grows by 25TB daily – I wonder how
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
A short post to start the day (in India) and then at lunchtime I'll do how it works: FILESTREAM garbage collection. This is a question
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
Last week I kicked off the first weekly survey – on whether you validate your backups or not (see here for the survey). The results
While trawling through the latest 2008 Books Online this morning to answer a question, I noticed a new section that I hadn't seen before, which
OK – last content post today. I forgot that the February TechNet Magazine also has the latest edition of my regular SQL Q&A column. This
It's really scary how quickly time flies – seems like it was just last week when I last blogged about TechNet Magazine (actually it was
It's been almost exactly a week since the last post – an unusually long time for me. Kimberly and I were teaching the first week
One of our customers (and friends!) sent us this last week – a stark reminder why hardware redundancy is a good idea! The controller
I just heard today that the first whitepaper I’ve written for Microsoft has been published! The abstract is: SQL Server Replication: Providing High-Availability using Database
As you may already know, instant file initialization is a way to prevent data (not log) file create and grow operations having to zero-initialize the
While we were at TechEd in June, Kimberly and I participated in an hour-long discussion panel (Leveraging SQL Server Technologies to Build a Solid High-Availability
It seems that today is going to be one of those days where I get lost in forums and blogging – I can live with
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