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Emergency Support
My system is down, what do I do? It's unfortunate, but sometimes a company has to experience a complete server failure before I'm invited to help. During these
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Disaster Recovery and High Availability Planning
How long could your company go if your database server simply stopped? Many of my clients have never even thought about this question. It's a question you need
Windows Azure
Migration to Windows Azure SQL Database: Step 1
Last time I introduced you to Windows Azure and some of the key features: pay as you go, scalability, and ease of use. These are the three key points I make
Windows Azure
On-Premises To Azure Migration
I've been presenting this presentation all year. I've tweaked it a little after each section. Funny thing is I never blogged that content... So I'd like to take
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Windows Azure SQL Database Backups!
If you've seen my OnPrem to Azure presentation, then you know one of the two big reservations I had about windows azure was we couldn't create a transactionally
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From “All in” to “Hybrid”
For the past 3 years...up until TechEd 2013, Microsoft was "All in" when it came to the cloud. Their goal was to see all new features and services come to the
Certification
Studying for the 70-457:Revenge of the Sith
I passed the exam! Woo hoo! It feels great to have passed this milestone. I want to finish up this series so I can help you pass too! I will say there are some
Certification
Studying for the 70-457: Part Deux
January 31 is coming up pretty fast ,Just 3 more days, so I want to try to knock out the rest of the study guide in the next couple days so that I'm ready
Certification
Studying for the 70-457
January 31st is the day I've set to take the 70-457: Transition Your MCTS on SQL Server 2008 to MCSA: SQL Server 2012, Part 1. So let's jump right in to the
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Changing Job and Database Owners to SA
I'm the Doctor One of the services we're trying to flesh out a bit more over at Hive Mind is our standard health check and resolution script. Every DBA has his
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Why should we migrate our ETL from DTS to SSIS?
I know I just threw a bunch of technical acronyms at you at once, but this is a topic that comes up more and more as people finally move off of SQL 2000 and
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HELP! My Log Drive is Full!
A few weeks back I received a call from a client who isn't running one of our monitoring solutions. "Help! ServerX is not responding! I can't even connect to it