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A small problem with Managed Service Accounts
I am very fortunate to always have the latest versions of Microsoft stuff to play with such as SQL Server 2008 R2, but occasionally something doesn’t work, and so I need to tell the relevant product team what the problem is. In this case I was trying Read More...
SQL Bits Friday session
I promise this is the last time I mention SQL Bits this week, but I wanted to let you know I have got 25 free tickets for the paid for event this Friday which would normally cost £149 to attend.  The venue is the Celtic Manor in Newport… and is probably Read More...
TechEd 09 Ask the Experts
I have been at TechEd Berlin last week and when I wasn’t speaking I spent most of the time in the Learning Centre (TLC) or ask the experts. I must confess I felt a bit of a non-expert this year for two reasons; I have been spending time getting up to Read More...
Wir fahr'n fahr'n fahr'n auf der Autobahn
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 Read More...
Virtualisation for the DBA part 4 – Licensing and Support
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.  Read More...
Virtualisation for the DBA part 3 – SQL Server Performance
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 Read More...
Virtualisation for the DBA part 2 – SQL Server Management
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 Read More...
Windows Server 2008 Enterprise edition and Virtualisation
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 Read More...
SQLBits Goes West 19-21 November, Newport
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 Read More...
Installing the SQL Server 2008 R2 August Technical Preview
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 Read More...
SQL Server 2008 R2 August Technical preview Installation Guide
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 Read More...
SQL Server 2008 R2 CTP1 released
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 Read More...
Work Experience
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 Read More...
Excel add ins for Analysis Services
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 Read More...
Free stuff SQL Server Courses & Software
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 Read More...
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