Hey, Ok, so the third and final part of my little series on virtualization and SQL Server, the disk. In my opinion, laying out a disk on VM is the area which most closely resembles it’s physical server counterpart. It doesn’t really have the hidden pitfalls that memory and CPU bring to the table. So
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Hey, Sorry, I had hoped to have this out last week but working on fixing the problems I want to talk about has kept me from it! So last week I covered Virtualization and CPU’s at a high level, and this week I’d like to look at considerations you need to take when speccing out
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Hey, So a hot topic in my work life at the moment is virtualization, and it’s going to become a hot topic in other peoples work lives very soon. Virtualization as a whole is a great idea, it’s a money saver, it makes hardware redundancy so much easier to manage, and there are so many
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So a two-for for the first day. One thing I find going in as a DBA to smaller companies is that the SQL versioning across the site is very rarely uniform. I think the reason for this, is that there are quite a few different versions of SQL, and unless you delve deeply, they all
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