Recently attempting to install a new three node cluster I ran into a new issue. Once I was able to run a successful “Cluster Validation Check” and chose the option to install a new cluster I received a message “The computer xxx is joined to a cluster”. My first thought then was to […]
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Linchpin People Partner
In April 0f 2012 I was fortunate enough to be asked to become Linchpin People LLC’s first ever TeamMate. (blog). I was really cool to become part of a great group of guys like Andy Leonard (blog | twitter), Brian Moran (blog | twitter) and Mike Walsh (blog | twitter). Over the past year Linchpin […]
Speaking at PASS Summit 2013
PASS Summit 2013 will be my fifth Summit to attend. I wrote a blog post about how different my fourth Summit experience as from the previous three. Summit 2012 was all about networking and offered my first experience to speak to a crowd. Idera allowed me to present two sessions at their booth on backup […]
SQL Community Speakers – Why We Do It
I started this post over a year ago and have just now come back around to finish it. Over the years I have been asked about a few misconceptions about speakers for SQL Saturday’s. Over the past several years as I have been involved with speaking and organizing SQL Saturday’s. Like many I love hanging […]
SQL Server Installation Date
I have been working on a project recently to collect system metrics of a SQL Server environment. One of the items that came up that would like to collected is the date that SQL Server was installed on the server. In doing a quick search on where this property would be located I found that sys.server_principals […]
What is Page Life Expectancy (PLE) in SQL Server
Being a production DBA means having to quickly look at a SQL Server and diagnose issue with it. We know that a quick look at perfmon or task manager can tell us of high CPU usage, but what is a good way to quickly look at proper memory usage. Checking out the Page Life Expectancy […]
SSIS training for a cause
On Thursday March 14th (PI Day) in Duluth GA, Audrey Hammonds and Julie Smith will put on a spectacular SSIS training event to benefit the Cloverleaf School of Atlanta. Both Audrey and Julie are SQL Server MVP’s and have given a countless amount of their time to the SQL Server Community over the years. Visit their […]
How to break a high end de-duplication backup device
I have been working with a client recently who purchased a nice top of the line de-duplication backup device in order to synchronize backups between two data centers. This device is very nice in how it will de-duplicate data to reduce storage needs and also compress the data. It will then synchronize the data to […]