OK everyone, it’s SQL Rally voting time
So it is time for another vote for the second category that I have a SQL Rally session submitted for. This time the vote is for the “Enterprise Database Administration & Deployment” track. I’ve got a session up titled “Using SQL Server Denali’s Always On” again in the Summit Spotlight section. The abstract for my […]
Book release must be getting close, sample pages now available on Amazon.
So, I’m guessing that my first solo book must be getting close to shipping. You can now flip through the first 11 pages of “Securing SQL Server” (preview page) on Amazon’s website. Now the images in the online preview are in color, but the book won’t be (or so I was told) so they must […]
Your job is to make the systems run at their top performance.
So I got an email from someone (and yes he told me that I can publish this post about it) because he was having an argument with his storage / systems team about LUN config for the SQL Servers. He wanted smaller LUNs so that they could be more easily moved around if performance problems […]