Planning to move to new hardware for your SQL Server? Techniques like log shipping and database mirroring can be incredibly useful to make the change fast and painless– but you’ve got to pick the right techniques for your environment ahead of time, and know how to do a few things that aren’t in the GUI.
Here are some of my favorite whitepapers and resources to get you going.
Sometimes we learn things in the wrong order. Or skip a step. If you’re just starting out as a SQL Server DBA, here are three questions that you need to be able to answer at any given time. If you aren’t 100% sure that you can handle these questions at 3 AM when you’ve had a few drinks, it’s time to revisit them.
I love writing presentations. I like outlining them, I like writing the demos, putting the slides together. I even like reconsidering everything, backing up, scrapping it, and starting from a new approach!
But I hate writing abstracts. It’s just tough to capture your vision in the format a conference organizer wants. And often, if I’m writing the abstract before the presentation is done, I’m wary about possibly describing something that I’ll want to change later.
Want a new kind of sample data? Maybe you want to use it to learn, or to do a project with it. Either way, you can blog about to build up your experience, resume, and share it with the community.
I recently gave LittleKendra.com a bit of a refresh. I wanted the website to be colorful, personal, and approachable.
It’s a big week for me! I’m moving on from Brent Ozar Unlimited.
Update, Feb 2017:
Here’s Microsoft’s overview of what the telemetry collects: https://www.microsoft.com/EN-US/privacystatement/SQLServer/Default.aspx
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