I’ve been wanting to write for the CanITPro.net website for quite sometime now, primarily because there hasn’t been any new content on SQL Server on the site lately. The Canadian IT Pro and developer communities are very vibrant and active, thanks to the effort of Canadian Microsoft MVPs Jean-René Roy (blog) (DevTeach/SQLTeach) and D’Arcy Lussier (Twitter | […]
PostFundamentals of SQL Server 2012 Availability Groups (Webcast)
The premise of this webcast is based on my conversations with customers who wanted to implement SQL Server 2012 Availability Groups. There have been a lot of confusion about the terminologies, technologies and implementation ever since Availability Groups was introduced in SQL Server 2012. This webcast seeks to explain the underlying fundamentals behind Availability Groups. You […]
PostAlways On Readable Secondaries: That Extra 14-bytes In Your Record You Didn’t Know About
– “Progress comes at a price.” Edwin Sarmiento- I’ve responded to customers’ inquiries about the benefits of implementing SQL Server 2012 Always On Availability Groups since Microsoft released a public CTP of “Denali.” I’ve delivered presentations, written articles, prepared proof-of-concept designs and even recorded a video on this topic. While it may be a new […]
PostAre you switching to BULK_LOGGED recovery model? Know your risks.
For years I have been led to believe that using the bulk-logged recovery model for SQL Server databases was a safe place to be in (that was entirely my fault, not MSDN’s nor TechNet’s.) I took it upon myself the definition of this recovery model – MINIMAL log space is used by bulk operations. My […]
PostDeploying a SQL Server 2012 Multi-Subnet Cluster
I’ve been wanting to write a series of articles on deploying a SQL Server 2012 on a multi-subnet cluster for quite some time now. This was driven by the fact that my series of articles on SQL Server 2008 Failover Clustering had been in the Top 10 Tips for more than 2 years since being […]
PostInstalling SQL Server 2012 on Windows Server Core
I’ve been waiting for a few of my articles to be published before referencing to them. This particular topic has been the content of my previous presentations – SQLConnections 2012 and 24 Hours of PASS: Spring 2012 – and I’ve received requests for resources. Here they are. This article walks you through configuring Windows Server […]
PostVideo: TechDays TV Episode on SQL Server 2012 Always On Availability Groups
This is a recording of the Microsoft Canada TechDays TV episode I back in 20-Mar-2012. The video walks you thru converting your database mirroring and log shipping configurations to SQL Server 2012 Always On Availability groups, providing database availability and maximizing your investments by allowing read-only access to database replicas. You can download the resources […]
PostSQL Server 2012 High Availability Webcast Resources Now Available
There have been requests from attendees of last week’s webcast to make the resources available for download. If you’ve attended or viewed (thru MSSQLTips.com’s recording) my webcast on SQL Server 2012 High Availability with AlwaysOn, you can download the resources – Windows-based client application together with the Visual Studio 2010 project files, batch files to […]
PostFrom *-SqlHadrService to *-SqlAlwaysOn
If you’ve been playing with SQL Server “Denali” AlwaysOn, you probably have seen the new PowerShell cmdlets for managing the new AlwaysOn feature. However, as SQL Server 2012 RC0 has been made available for download, you need to watch out for these “breaking changes” for AlwaysOn (I call them breaking changes because if you are […]
PostBuilding a Scale-Out SQL Server 2008 R2 Reporting Services Farm Whitepaper Now Available
Back in 2009, I wrote a 4-part series article on installing SQL Server 2008 Failover Cluster on Windows Server 2008 and, for the past two years, has been on the Top Ten Tips. I think one of the reason is because of the fact that we humans learn easily with the use of visuals (the […]
