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Notes on SQL Server BI MCTS 70-448 Exam
Last year, I finally became certified as a Microsoft Technology Specialist for SQL Server 2008 DBA. Here are my notes from that exam along with my studying and certification prep work. As a SQL Server...
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Quick Note on Always On Availability Groups Performance in SQL Server 2012
It’s still early in the lifecycle of SQL Server 2012 (heck, we just RTM’d 2 weeks ago and not yet GA!) but some of the whitepapers, best practices, guidance, etc. are starting to flow out and I’ll make...
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System Center for the SQL Server DBA, cont’d SCOM Pack for SQL
My original posting on System Center Operations Manager for SQL Server DBAs start in part 1 of the series here. Today, I want to take just a minute to give you some pointers in getting started using...
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Philly Code Camp 2012.1 SQL Server Presentation
Hi all! Many thanks for joining me at the SQL Server 2012 what’s new session at Philly Code Camp this past Saturday in Abington, PA at the beautiful Penn State campus! Here is the Slideshare link to...
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SQL Server 2012 AlwaysOn Availability Groups In Action
I think of SQL Server 2012 AlwaysOn Availability Groups as both high availability and scale-out database. This is because you can identify multiple secondary servers in your Availability Group that can...
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SQL Server 2012 Database Backups in Azure
SQL Server 2012 inlcudes new & updated features to SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) that provide out-of-the-box integration into the Windows Azure platform-as-a-service Cloud service from...
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It’s a SQL Server Weekend!
Tomorrow is SQL Saturday Philly in our Microsoft Technology Center in Malvern, PA!! Here is the SlideShare link to my presentation on Microsoft Cloud BI This is my blog post from today on SQL Server...
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Continuing Series: System Center for the SQL Server DBA (SCOM Data Warehouse)
Not really a new part to my multi-part series on System Center for the SQL Server DBA … I’m going to post more on the other products in the System Center Suite shortly, but I want to go back to the...
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System Center for the SQL Server DBA: Wrap-Up
I’m going to call the series on System Center for the SQL Server DBA complete with this one last post today. First, here is the full series to date … my apologies for the lack of post naming...
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Monitor SQL Server CDC with Customer Data Collector
I’ve posted several times over the years here @MSSQLDUDE on the benefits of SQL Server Management Data Warehouse (MDW) for baselining your SQL Server performance and sending those measurements to a...
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