The whole last 3 days I’ve spent almost every minute with reviewing the material from the last 2 weeks (around 38 hours in total…). Today Bob Beauchemin joined us, and talks the whole week about SQL Server Development, Security, PowerShell, and some esoteric technologies like SQLCLR, Service Broker, and CDC/Change Tracking. Don’t expect too much …
Today Jonathan presented on Replication and Paul about Database Snapshots, and his baby called “CHECKDB” – he has been married with CHECKDB for almost 5 years at Microsoft. Module 8: Replication Distributes data to different locations Offloading reporting to another database Transactional Replication Used in server-to-server scenarios that require high throughput Different Agents Snapshot Agent …
Today Paul was speaking about Database Mirroring and Jonathan was talking about Failover Clustering – all in all a very intensive day J Module 6: Database Mirroring Split Brain is possible When you loose the witness, Database Mirroring goes into the asynchronous mode No automatic failover possible Witness should be also put in the same …
Today Jonathan was talking the whole day about Consolidation and Virtualization. There were again a lot of new concepts, and new things to learn. Module 4: Consolidation Event Notifications for Monitoring Deadlocks, Locking/Blocking Scenarios Multiple Instances for TempDb bottleneck Soft-NUMA should be used to bound multiple instances to dedicated CPUs CPU Affinity Maks should not …
Today Paul talked the whole day about HA DR Strategies and Backup/Restore operations. I’ve already known a lot about Backup/Restores, but Paul showed some cool things that were even new to me J. Here are my study notes for the 3 modules of today: Module 1: HA DR Strategies Zero downtime is not possible Even …
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