Microsoft has made the decision to unleash me on Tech Ed North America

Apparently someone at Microsoft has completely lost their mind.  They have signed me up as a speaker for Tech Ed NA 2011.  I’ll be presenting a session titled ‘What’s New in Manageability for Microsoft SQL Server Code-Named “Denali”‘. This is a 300 level session so it will be full of all sorts of “Denali” goodness.  […]

SQL Backup Compression and Backup Dedup are mortal enemies

If you have a modern tape backup solution you probably have some sort of dedup process in your backup environment.  What these deduplication processes do normally is look at the data which is being written to the backup platform and remove duplicate values in order to save space on the tape backup system. However if […]