I will be speaking for the PASS DBA Virtual Chapter on February 22nd, 2012. I will be delivering my presentation on Mirroring. If you have not checked out the virtual chapters that PASS has, then you need to Go Check Them Out. These chapters are designed to fill the gap for areas of the country that [...]
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Jes Borland will be speaking for the Performance Virtual Chapter this month. Don’t miss out on this free training. Here are the details and click the link to visit the chapter website for the LiveMeeting link and to add to your calendar: Filegroups: Putting The Pieces Together by Jes Borland February 23, 2012 at [...]
Move over Poseidon. I’m hitting the sea with my own trident (assuming I can get it through the TSA). My trident is made from the culmination of my favorite three things. My wife, SQL Server, and cruising. Let me explain. Back in October of last year, Idera ran a contest called the “Get a life [...]
The PASS Performance Virtual chapter is getting a reboot. We all know that responsibilities and schedules change, and that meant this chapter needed some additional hands on deck. Erin Stellato (Blog|Twitter) valiantly volunteered to take the helm and she put out an SOS for volunteers. The response was great with some wonderful people volunteering to help. I [...]
PBM raises errors for policy violations. We can create alerts on those errors to be notified of policy violations. In order to setup alerts on these errors there are three prerequisites. Note that violations for the “On Demand” evaluation mode do not raise errors. A policy must be set to “Enabled” to raise an error, [...]
The Professional Association for SQL Server and the North Texas SQL Server User Group have been working hard behind the scenes to bring SQLRally 2012 in Dallas Texas to the SQL Community. We are excited to announce that event registration opens November 30, 2011. Make sure to get registered soon and take advantage of the [...]
We will walk through creating a policy to evaluate the status of “Auto Create Statistics” on our server named “File2”. First we need to open SQL Server Management Studio and connect to our server. Then we need to enable Policy Management by expanding the Management node, right clicking on Policy Management, and selecting Enable. You [...]
Let’s take a look at how to import the Microsoft Best Practice Policies into your Policy Based Management Server. You can also import policies that you have exported from other servers. The Microsoft Best Practice Policies are a great place to start learning what you can do with PBM, by simply importing them and inspecting their [...]
If you need to setup a Central Management Server or just want to check it out, then here is how to do it. Open SQL Server Management Studio and connect to the SQL instance you want to host your CMS. By default SSMS does not show you the Registered Servers pane. If you do not [...]
I recently had the need to move the MSDTC for a cluster to a new SAN drive. It’s a quite simple thing to do, but you can’t redirect the MSDTC resource to a new drive. Let’s just walk through the basic steps. The first thing you need to do is get the new drive added to the cluster and [...]
