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I wish you knew a few things about VMWare and SQL Server perfromance. These aren’t deep and mysterious secrets. But they’re things we see a lot of folks still missing…
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SQL Server: Should I move from Enterprise to Standard?
Do you need SQL Server Enterprise Edition? Maybe. Maybe not. Lately, we’ve been finding more and more folks who can answer that probably not. I’ve lost track of the number…
Cluster Validation – BEWARE!!!
Subtitle: SHAME ON YOU MICROSOFT! This is not a new behavior. It’s not a new risk. It’s the same old risk that’s been in Windows Failover Clustering for quite some…
Inspect Early. Inspect Often.
I almost didn’t get to write this post tonight about a lesson from my farm life for us DBAs. I could have been dealing with a massive headache or a…
SQL Server In Place Upgrades: Too Expensive?
About eight years ago, I wrote a (kind of long) answer to a DBA. Stackexchange question, “Are SQL Server In-Place upgrades as ill-advised as they used to be?” My summary…