December 2010 - Posts

• 2010: It’s a Wrap

  So, last day of the year, and I can see many people are in a reflective mood. I don’t usually deep dive into goals or resolutions, but I’m not immune either :-). But I’ll try to keep this short and to-the-point. First a big shout out to Adam for letting Read More... Posted Friday, December 31, 2010 6:27 PM by merrillaldrich | 2 Comments

• Existing Instance, Shiny New Disks

  Migrating an Instance of SQL Server to New Disks I get to do something pretty entertaining this week – migrate SQL instances on a 2008 cluster from one disk array to another! Zut alors! I am so excited I can hardly contain myself, so let’s get started. Read More... Posted Tuesday, December 14, 2010 1:05 AM by merrillaldrich | 6 Comments

• Operations Manager SQL monitoring issue?

  We're in the early stages of implementing System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2, and from what I've see so far it looks really good. I am still interested to see the depth of performance counter information that it'll collect and store, but haven't Read More... Posted Friday, December 03, 2010 11:32 AM by merrillaldrich | 6 Comments