More SQL Server 2012 Licensing Info
So as a followup to My SQL Server 2012 licensing blog post I wanted to follow up on what exactly is a core license good for. When working in the physical world it’s pretty easy to figure out. However many cores there are on the physical chip is how many cores you need licenses for. […]
Slide Deck From Buena Park .NET User Group
Last week on Wednesday night I had the privilege of presenting a session to the Buena Park .NET User Group. The session that I gave was “Indexing for the .NET Developer”. The abstract for the session is: “In this session we will be looking at the best and worse practices for indexing tables within your […]
SQL Server 2012 Licensing Changes
So you may have heard earlier today about the license changes that are coming out for SQL Server 2012. I know that the official announcement can be a little hard to get through and the changes can be a little confusing at first (or even second or third) glance. The SQL Server licensing team was […]
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 […]