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James and I are on our way to TechEd Berlin, but we’re driving because we’re both a little bit eccentric. Not only that we have a bit of stuff to take.. four laptops, a shuttle, a hub assorted drives, cables so that we can demo a bunch of interesting
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To wrap up this mini-series on virtualisation, I wanted to clarify the support and licensing stuff you need to know if you want to Virtualise. The support is really simple, Microsoft support virtual machines just as though they are real environments.
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As I have said already in this series the major concern most DBA’s have when virtualising SQL Server is performance. I think this is actually a bit of myth for a number reasons: Virtualisation just keeps getting better . This is down to a partnership
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Given the almost mandatory drive to server virtualisation in data centres, what do you need to worry about and what’s in SQL Server to help you? The biggest worry is probably trying to manage everything, as typically many organisations simply create
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I get quite a few questions about virtualising SQL Server and typically today this is on VMWare so yesterday I went along to find out more at the VMWare London User Group. In the current world of computing, vendors compete with everyone but also
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When I am not doing the day job I like to draw and paint to relax so I have combined a bit of business & pleasure for the SQL Bits Goes West conference by doing a few cartoons for them… As you can see the event has grown to three days. While
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I see a lot of comments on Twitter making comments about how hard SQL Server is to install and so I thought I would go through a simple installation based on the August Technical Preview, SQL Server 2008 R2. I also used the latest operating system Windows
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I have decided to install the SQL Server 2008 R2 August technical preview (aka CTP2) on Windows Server 2008 R2. On this new OS there is a specific role the application sever role that you should setup before installing SQL Server This role adds in the
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The first publicly available technical preview of SQL Server 2008 R2 has just been released to TechNet / MSDN subscribers. As with the development of SQL Server 2008 each successive CTP will have more features in. This CTP’s main feature is the
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A lot of teenagers are on work experience at the moment, and as I don’t have any of my own children I got to be cool uncle for a week and took my nephew Harry to spend a week inside Microsoft. We run a full week course of lectures and practical
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Excel and analysis services are pretty open technologies so it’s very easier for anyone to grow their own stuff in for a richer experience, and even Microsoft provide things like the data mining add-ins which follow this principle. These add-ins are not
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I knew that there were a few course on SQL Server 2008 on the Microsoft training site : Course 2778A : Writing Queries Using Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Transact—SQL Course 6231A : Maintaining a Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Database Course 6232A : Implementing
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Life isn’t fair, Microsoft bring out some new fangled gizmo, but I needed it five years ago. Back then I was working for several utility companies who were managing such things as water quality & half hour electricity meter readings for large customers.
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I wanted to call out the BI evening on 10th June because they’ve given me a slot to talk about SQL Server 2008 r2 and specifically the BI features you can expect. There’s also sessions on Data Modeling and information architecture from Alex
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My post announcing the next version of SQL Server picked up a couple of comments and rather than squeeze my reply in another comment I thought i would make it into a post. Most customers started adopting SQL Server 2000 in 2001/2. Back in those days my
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