One of the things that drives me crazy as I'm getting older is that my brain is losing the capacity to differentiate version numbers. As I speak travel around speaking with customers and at conferences, I find my self saying things like ''I can't recall if this problem was fixed in SQL Server 2000 or 2005. But you don't have to worry about that ...

When dealing with VLDB availability, I found it useful to keep in mind a set of simple and general guidelines. Let me highlight them here.    1. Identify VLDB Early in the Application Lifecycle The importance of this is rather self evident. But it is often ignored in practice, and it may take a high-profile outage for people to wake ...