VMware’s vCenter and SQL Server Database Backups
VMware’s vCenter system uses SQL Server as it’s default database platform. One thing that needs to be looked into for a lot of VMware installations is the backup setup for the vCenter databases. Often I find the vCenter databases configured in SIMPLE recovery. Now this doesn’t mean that the database is simple to recover in […]
Learn Storage and Virtualization online
Now you as a database professional have the chance to earn Storage and Virtualization from home, work, or where ever is convenient for you. As a partnership with SSWUG.org I’ve recorded an 11 session class titled “Storage and Virtualization for the DBA” which is being delivered online via SSWUG’s virtual conference platform which will allow […]
Out of office messages, gmail and mailing lists
Email is pretty much the most annoying necessary evil out there. Another annoying necessary evil out there is the out of office message. Normally these aren’t to annoying over all as they let you know that someone that you’ve sent a message to isn’t going to be responding for a while. Where they start getting […]
Working with replication snapshots to large to fit on your distributor
I ran across an interesting problem the other day. I was setting up replication for a couple of VERY large tables. These two tables between there are about 553 Gigs in size. There isn’t enough room on the distributor, and there is a slow link between the distribution server and the subscriber. After 6 days […]