What do I do with Standard Edition SQL Servers using Mirroring
With the release of SQL Server 2012 many of the people who are using Standard Edition and Database Mirroring are quite nervous about what their HA options are going to be moving forward, and rightfully so as Microsoft has been pretty silent on this specific topic. Let me see if I can’t calm your fears […]
What do I do with Standard Edition SQL Servers using Mirroring
With the release of SQL Server 2012 many of the people who are using Standard Edition and Database Mirroring are quite nervous about what their HA options are going to be moving forward, and rightfully so as Microsoft has been pretty silent on this specific topic. Let me see if I can’t calm your fears […]
Moving huge amounts of data between data centers
Every once and a while I get the fun project of moving a data center from one location to another, often from a Managed Service Provider to either a CoLo facility or to another Managed Service Provider. When I’m doing this the data sizes typically aren’t small. In the case of my current project one […]
I’ll be at SQL PASS 2012, will you?
It appears that I’ve been selected to give a couple of presentations at the premier Microsoft SQL Server conference again this year. At the 2012 SQL PASS Summit in Seattle, WA this year I’ll be presenting a regular session titled “Where Should I Be Encrypting My Data?” where I’ll be talking about all the various […]