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Re: Is 80/20 a 90’s Estimate?

sunanda — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 08:34:01 -0000

Hi, can you provide us with some references for this 80-20 rule?

Re: Imagine a 3500 Page Book…

BrentO — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 03:20:11 -0000

Who showed you our confidential roadmap?!?!!!?!?

Re: Imagine a 3500 Page Book…

baint — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 00:24:14 -0000

Hey I have been logging GUID’s into a table 24x7 for the last 3 years. Laugh you might, but you’ll come with your check book open like all the rest when the world runs out.

Re: Imagine a 3500 Page Book…

twitter-14086452 — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 00:18:25 -0000

I met with the Quest guys today. You should make app to store adhoc sql in a middle tier db table and parameterizes it. Wait... what about storing vm's in file stream?

Re: Imagine a 3500 Page Book…

BrentO — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 22:20:16 -0000

It's all part of my master plan to take over the SQL talents of the world and launch a giant MLM scheme to sell triggers and cursors.

Re: Life

robboek — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 17:33:07 -0000

Looks like fun!

Re: What is Professional Development?

way0utwest — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 14:43:05 -0000

I'd also include ways to increase your specific career knowledge. So resources, ideas, ways to learn more about SQL Server (or development) for DBAs. For lawyers, how to better debate or write a brief, for doctors, new medicines, etc.

Re: Another Overlooked Windows Setting for the DBA

twitter-42128045 — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 19:20:53 -0000

Understood, but if you have the cache and want to use it, it seems you have to leave the enable adv performance UNchecked and enable write caching checked based on references sited by Matt and myself.

Re: Another Overlooked Windows Setting for the DBA

twitter-14086452 — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 22:14:01 -0000

Chuck - That is why I have the bold warning, do not do this until you have a battery backed cache. Most enterprise level servers(HP for sure) will send traps if the battery juice is running out or the battery backing is unavailable for some reason.

Also, if you do not have a write bottleneck then you may still want to leave it off.

Re: Another Overlooked Windows Setting for the DBA

twitter-42128045 — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 14:53:07 -0000

It seems based on this and another thread I found http://forums.storagereview.net/index.php?showt... that we should not enable the Advanced Performance as it will remove the flush cache option to improve speed, but during power failure override the option you really want on a database server? Does anyone have a test box that they can power off to do a test?

Re: Another Overlooked Windows Setting for the DBA

Matt — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 12:00:13 -0000

Note: "Enable Enhanced Performance" doesn't do anything but re-introduce an old bug:
http://207.46.16.252/en-us/magazine/2007.04.win...

It's likely that SQL Server 2000 and up do not rely on this bug at all.

Re: Another Overlooked Windows Setting for the DBA

twitter-14086452 — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 11:46:40 -0000

Not presently but I was planning on writing a script that will generate a report of which servers this needs to fixed on. As far as changing, it is probably a reg key but once for each disk but it doesn't need to be turned on for all disks.

It is on my list but several things just got bumped up in priority ahead of it...

Re: Another Overlooked Windows Setting for the DBA

robboek — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 20:55:16 -0000

Do you know of a way to script this?

Re: Professional Development: Internet Image

twitter-14955268 — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 11:37:52 -0000

Neat story about what your grandfather had overcome in his life.

Re: Professional Development: Internet Image

twitter-36394357 — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 12:07:08 -0000

I have to let you know the DBCC DROPCLEANBUFFERS only doesn't deal with puss because we ran out of time for SQL Server 2005 - otherwise I'd have put it in. Sorry. And I like LOTR. :-)

Re: Can you be too Thorough?

chrisleonard — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 10:36:06 -0000

I like this! Can you post the code? :oP

Re: Can you be too Thorough?

rodcolledge — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 03:39:03 -0000

Great post Jason. The first bit of my PASS presentation is on this very topic.

The best DBAs are "cautiously pessimistic". Optimists are not suited to the DBA role, but neither are overly negative people. Cautious pessimists know when to apply the brakes and how hard.

Re: Can you be too Thorough?

michaelswart — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 00:08:18 -0000

Wisdom I think (for top dbas... can't vouch for geeks) Only if wisdom means "knowing and making correct choices". That is certainly a different flavour than intelligence but it's related somehow.

I know a couple intelligent people without wisdom, they often put their feet in their mouths or are too proud etc...

Re: The Biggest Cloud Computing Pitfall

twitter-14086452 — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 23:23:48 -0000

You are correct. That is infrastructure as a service. I checked out their product line and it looks like they only serve linux vm's. Am I missing it?

BTW, I would like to think the company that I work for has a better offering than RackSpace. We do offer SQL 2005\SQL 2008 on Win2003\Win2008 in the enterprise cloud. http://terremark.com

Re: The Biggest Cloud Computing Pitfall

Solomon Rutzky — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 15:42:18 -0000

Has anyone looked into Mosso, the RackSpace cloud?

http://www.rackspacecloud.com/

They allow for .Net and SQL Server 2008 access. That does not seem very "locked". I am not as familiar with the Amazon cloud. I think they have a proprietary DB that is simplistic and not as relational but might allow for your own DB to be loaded since they give you a VM and I guess you could load SQL Server on it (however, I have not looked into this option).

Re: Offtopic: Muzique ala Ill Repute

twitter-14899456 — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 11:41:22 -0000

Choads of the World Unite!

Re: Chris ‘”Meme” Shaw is at it Again

twitter-14086452 — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 11:20:11 -0000

Dap back atcha.

Re: Chris ‘”Meme” Shaw is at it Again

David Stein — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 11:11:36 -0000

ding ding ding... We have a winner. I never in my life thought I would see a pic of Snoop Dogg's right hand man, Don "The Magic" Juan, on a SQL Blog.

Fo shizzle mah nizzle.

Re: Mounting a Volume as a Folder on a Cluster

twitter-14086452 — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 16:40:55 -0000

I don't recall having to set permissions but we installed to the root drive and put data\log files on mount point.

Re: Mounting a Volume as a Folder on a Cluster

Helge Rutz — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 15:52:14 -0000

Hi Jason,

I tried the same with W2K8 and SQL 2008 Cluster but ran into trouble with the mount point permission.
I had to preset the permission on the mounted volume to get the cluster setup succeed. The setup only set the permission on the mount point folder and not on the underlying volume, which cause setup failure with the default permissions.

Can you explain how you did this in your project?
I found the permission issue a little bit disappointing.