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SQL Server 2008 R2 Released to Manufacturing

Posted on April 21, 2010 by way0utwest

Microsoft scheduled a conference call this morning, and I jumped on since I was laid up in bed with a pinched nerve in my neck. What else did I have to do? Actually I had work to do, but I … Continue reading →

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Log Shipping Delays are Good

Posted on April 21, 2010 by way0utwest

In the past, when I’ve set up log shipping, it was primarily as a DR device, designed to get copies of logs to another server ASAP. The idea being that if we had an issue on the production server, we … Continue reading →

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Sad Sack – Hardware Failures all over

Posted on April 20, 2010 by way0utwest

I feel like I have some bad digital karma lately. In the past week I’ve had these downed systems: iPod iTouch Lenovo Laptop Acer laptop Windows Home Server To be fair the Windows Home Server died just before we went … Continue reading →

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Just one mirror

Posted on April 19, 2010 by way0utwest

You can only have one mirror of a SQL Server database in SQL Server 2005/2008. I researched that last year when someone asked the question. It didn’t make sense to me why you couldn’t have more than one, and I … Continue reading →

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