November 2010 - Posts

• Some Thoughts on Clustering SQL Server Virtual Machines

  On my blog post Virtualizing SQL on VMware Reference List , Oscar Zamora ( Blog | Twitter ) asked the following question in a comment: As a virtualized instance has the benefit of "failing over" to another physical box, would you consider clustering Read More... Posted Wednesday, November 24, 2010 12:58 AM by Jonathan Kehayias | 10 Comments Filed under: Database Administration, Whitepapers, Virtualization

• Virtualizing SQL on VMware Reference List

  I’ve been managing SQL Server virtualized in production environments for nearly five years now, and in that time, I’ve had to do a significant amount of reading/learning about VMware as a hypervisor so that I could properly track down performance problems Read More... Posted Monday, November 22, 2010 10:00 AM by Jonathan Kehayias | 2 Comments Filed under: Whitepapers, Virtualization

• PASS Summit 2010 – Session Presentations and Demos

  I know I am late on actually publishing these, but here are the presentation slide decks and demo’s from the two sessions I presented at PASS Summit 2010. Attached to this post are two zip files that contain all the materials for each of the sessions. Read More... Posted Saturday, November 20, 2010 10:48 PM by Jonathan Kehayias | 5 Comments Filed under: Presentations, PASS Attachment(s): SQL PASS 2010 Presentations.zip

• T-SQL Tuesday #12 - Why are DBA skills necessary?

  This month’s TSQL Tuesday event is being hosted by Paul Randal (Blog|Twitter), and for November is a week early so that it doesn't clash with PASS.  For this month, Paul picked the topic  "why are DBA skills necessary?" which is quite Read More... Posted Tuesday, November 02, 2010 10:36 PM by Jonathan Kehayias | 0 Comments Filed under: TSQL2sday