June 2010 - Posts

• Anyone running Thin Provisioned storage?

  A friend recently asked me for some advice about implementing SAN storage for SQL Server, and I was able to explain how we'd implemented our storage, but ours is a more traditional setup with static LUNs tied to specific physical disks. Anyone out there Read More... Posted Tuesday, June 29, 2010 2:51 PM by merrillaldrich | 10 Comments

• Long I/Os and TCP Timeouts are not a SQL Server Problem, Except When They Are

  My coverage of old SQL Server problems seems to be turning into a blog series. In any case, here's at least a reminder, or perhaps just more fodder for the search engines. Two types of errors pop up on occasion that look very much like network or disk Read More... Posted Tuesday, June 22, 2010 11:18 AM by merrillaldrich | 1 Comments

• Outstanding SQL Saturday

  I had the privilege to attend the SQL Saturday held in Redmond today, and it was really outstanding. Among the many sessions, I especially enjoyed and took a lot of useful information away from Greg Larsen’s Dynamic Management Views session, Kalen Delaney’s Read More... Posted Saturday, June 12, 2010 9:49 PM by merrillaldrich | 1 Comments

• Psyched for SQL Saturday #43

  Hope to see YOU at SQL Saturday in Redmond, WA. If not, well, bummer. I'm pumped! Read More... Posted Thursday, June 10, 2010 5:58 PM by merrillaldrich | 0 Comments

• Windows Server 2003 network boogey men every DBA should know

  Recently I was again visited by my old friends TCP Chimney and SynAttackProtect . (Yeah, sometimes I feel like I mostly blog about 5-year old problems, but many of us as DBA's have to work on older versions or older systems, and so repeat older problems Read More... Posted Thursday, June 10, 2010 5:10 PM by merrillaldrich | 1 Comments Filed under: connectivity, network

• OT: Improbable use for an iPad?

  Here's an interesting tidbit: I have noticed an even more pronounced trend toward centralized or virtual workstations lately. Both my wife and I can sit at home, as we are now, at the dining room table and work on our laptops (exciting life, I know!) Read More... Posted Tuesday, June 01, 2010 11:58 PM by merrillaldrich | 5 Comments Filed under: iPad