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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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I have been at a couple of trade shows over the last couple of weeks and a consistent theme has emerged, the reluctance of DBA’s to virtualise SQL Server, whether or not that is Hyper-V. If you fall into this camp please read-on… Hopefully
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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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I see a lot of tweets, and questions on forums about SQL Server Express from developers, particularly around installing it on client versions of windows, so I though I’ll give it a go and see if there is nay truth to the rumours. Rather than try it on
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Usually when I mention SQL Server and map in the same blog it’s a post on geospatial data but not today; today I want to talk about assessment and planning your SQL Server infrastructure. I know of several DBA’s who don’t know how many SQL Servers
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Normally at this time of the year the evangelists would be wandering the UK with the TechNet road shows. However this year TechNet has gone virtual as it’s become very apparent that you are finding it even more difficult to justify a day out of
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There are occasions where you need multiple versions of SQL Server running at the same time and you may not have sufficient hardware to run them on separate machines. The traditional approach to this is to run an instance of each version, in fact I have
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One of the limitations of SQL Server is that it only supports 4 processors (as you can see here ). That translates into 4 virtual processors if you run standard edition in a virtual machine. If there are more than four processors available
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The possibilities for consolidating SQL Server are many and varied, and one of the key drivers for all of these is the cost of energy which curiously doesn’t seem to have fallen in line with the price of oil & gas. Anyway I found this detailed whitepaper
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Microsoft reckon that 7% of workloads are virtualised, so there’s still a lot of consolidation work to be done, but how high up the list should SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS) be? In order to answer this it’s important to understand what SSAS is there
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It’s time to spring clean the blog as I have realised that a few of my older posts have been overtaken by events and could be misleading if they were acted upon now. For example: SQL Server 2008 is now supported on VMWare and other virtualisation platforms
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I am still getting loads of questions on virtualising SQL Server so rather than blogging away here, I am getting involved with Windows ITPro magazine along with a number of cross industry virtualisation experts to run a virtual (what else would it be!)
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