The Curious Case of… random failing log shipping restores
(The Curious Case of… used to be part of our bi-weekly newsletter but we decided to make it a regular blog post instead so it can sometimes be more
(The Curious Case of… used to be part of our bi-weekly newsletter but we decided to make it a regular blog post instead so it can sometimes be more
As Kimberly blogged about earlier this year, SQLskills has an ongoing initiative to blog about basic topics, which we’re calling SQL101. We’re all blogging about things that we often see
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
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
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
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
Today's post is based on a bunch of questions I've had around the various compression features in SQL Server 2008. Does turning on data compression
It’s been almost two weeks since my last post as we’ve been offline in Scotland (another photo post to follow – I owe you two
Just got an email notification of a new whitepaper from the SQL Customer Advisory Team on Database Mirroring and Log Shipping Working Together. It covers:
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