Happy new year, SQL peeps! I hope everyone had a wonderful holiday. Last week was very quiet at work, but I did have a developer email me with a problem she was having. (I do believe she may have been the only one actually working, can you imagine??) But that’s ok, I love using this […]
So I finally managed to get my hands on a VM with Windows 2008 R2 SP1 so I could install SQL 2012. (Aside: one of the biggest obstacles to progress is bureaucracy.) Anywho, I plan to explore all of the new features and functionality in 2012 and, of course, blog all about it here. But […]
In the world of SQL Server, a process is either running, runnable, or waiting. A running process is, obviously, running; it’s the one getting CPU time. A runnable process has everything it needs to run, it’s just waiting for its turn on the CPU. A process that’s waiting, however, is one that needs some resource […]
This picture has never been more applicable to me than it was today. Here’s the story: One of my fellow DBAs was trying to configure DTC in an existing cluster and he was having some problems. In an effort to see where the problem lay, I added a DTC resource to the cluster. I then […]
So what have I been up to? Well not writing blog posts, obviously. Everybody Panic!!! Really though, I haven’t exactly been slacking off these past couple weeks. As you may recall, one of my goals this year was to present at a SQL Saturday. To help me towards that goal, I have my very first […]
