Monthly Archives: February 2011

What’s Your SLA?

Today I’m flying out to visit one of our customers for a few days. Usually when I go to a customer site I’m looking at solution performance, but this customer requested that we come on site to review their solution and make Disaster Recovery (DR) recommendations. I love going to customer sites for a variety…

Bulk Logged Recovery Model and Point In Time Recovery

A couple weeks ago I spoke with a customer who was having problems with their index rebuilds after a SQL Server upgrade. The database is about 160 GB and they upgraded from SQL Server 2000 to SQL Server 2005. Since the upgrade, the index rebuilds have been failing because the transaction log is filling up. …

SQLSaturday60: Who wants to be in my presentation?

Greetings, Professor Falken It’s time for some education, peeps, and I am not talking about SQLUniversity, which started two weeks ago.  These are the final days before the first SQLSaturday event in Cleveland.  I have been part of the planning committee and let me tell you, my hat is off to anyone who has ever planned…