Jason Massie and Brent Ozar work with SQL Server for a living and write blogs for fun, but that’s where the similarities end. Jason’s a fan of shared storage SANs: putting SQL Server data and logs on the same set of physical hard drives. Brent’s a cheerleader for dedicated configurations where the arrays are separated [...]
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SQL Server Virtual Conference: A $100 Bargain
Lemme play psychic for a minute. Put your hands on the monitor, and I’ll tell your future.
It’s coming to me…wait…I see. Your boss is cutting your budgets. You know those conferences you wanted to attend? Those ones that were going to require expensive airfare and hotels? It ain’t happening. Sure, the boss might not have [...]
Storage virtualization for SQL Server: friend or foe?
Storage virtualization is a really slick SAN technology that does for SANs what VMware did for servers: it abstracts away the underlying hardware to make management easier. Multiple SANs can be swapped around back and forth behind the scenes without affecting any servers that store data on those SANs.
It’s nowhere near common yet - it’s [...]
