Thomas LaRockFor the past few months I have been trying to outline the most effective way for our team to recover a server in the event of a disaster. Say, for example, if you have a production box on the SAN and someone accidentally reallocates your server storage, wiping away everything and forcing you to rebuild … Read more
Linked servers are driving me crazy. Well, not them exactly. Rather, how they are used, or misused, by people. I am not certain why, but people tend to think that you can run a query that pulls from a linked server and the results should be similar as if the data was local to the … Read more
So, PASS 2007 is over. It has been done for the past week now, and I have been piecing together my thoughts since then. I started thinking about PASS in general, then I started to focus on specific items such as “what do I get for my membership fee”? In the past week I have … Read more
Today I made my first presentation at a PASS conference. The whole process took months to come together. I started back in the Spring putting together my abstract and was fortunate to be accepted. After it was accepted, I went to work putting it all together. I prepared my talk and presented to a couple … Read more
During the PASS conference this year I was informed by more than a few colleagues that their companies have MOM 2005, but they are not able to utilize it for their own needs. Why? Why would they not be allowed to work with the MOM administrator to customize MOM for even just a few things? … Read more
Today is the last day for the conference, and I am quite tired. To make things worse, my flight out of here is at 6:30AM tomorrow morning. Ick. I checked on some options to leave earlier, but none were viable. So, it looks like I will head to dinner with some friends, stay up most … Read more
