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SQL Server in the Cloud Podcast Part 2

Wednesday, December 9th, 2009

At the PASS Summit in Seattle, SQL Server in the cloud got a lot of buzz.  In this five-minute video, Brent Ozar gives you the answers you need when your developers and managers start asking questions.

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SQL Server in the Cloud Podcast

Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009

At the PASS Summit in Seattle, SQL Server in the cloud got a lot of buzz.  In this five-minute video, Brent Ozar explains the two main options for SQL in the cloud – real SQL Server, and the instant coffee version.

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Want to Guest Podcast at SQLServerPedia?

We’d love to host your guest podcasts! Email Editor-in-Chief Brent.Ozar@Quest.com and he’ll help you get started with recording your own presentation. We’ll host them at SQLServerPedia, and you can also host them on your own site. We don’t need exclusive rights to the podcast.

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Tom LaRock on Monitoring

Monday, September 7th, 2009

Tom LaRock (Blog – Twitter) is a man of many hats: he’s a SQLServerPedia Editor, a PASS Board of Directors member, a Microsoft SQL Server MVP, and much more.Brent Ozar interviewed him at Quest’s headquarters about monitoring – what people should focus on monitoring, and what he wishes he would have known when he got started as a DBA.

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Want to Guest Podcast at SQLServerPedia?

We’d love to host your guest podcasts! Email Editor-in-Chief Brent.Ozar@Quest.com and he’ll help you get started with recording your own presentation. We’ll host them at SQLServerPedia, and you can also host them on your own site. We don’t need exclusive rights to the podcast.

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Guest Podcast: Policy Based Management

Wednesday, August 19th, 2009

Tom LaRock (Blog – Twitter) is our guest podcaster in today’s introduction to Policy Based Management, a new feature in SQL Server 2008.  It helps DBAs – especially accidental DBAs like sysadmins and SharePoint admins – find out if their environment is healthy.

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For more about Policy-Based Management, watch Tom’s blog for the next part of this video where he explains how to use PBM to evaluate several servers at once.

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    Want to Guest Podcast at SQLServerPedia?

    We’d love to host your guest podcasts! Email Editor-in-Chief Brent.Ozar@Quest.com and he’ll help you get started with recording your own presentation. We’ll host them at SQLServerPedia, and you can also host them on your own site. We don’t need exclusive rights to the podcast.

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    VLDBs and Instant File Initialization

    Thursday, July 9th, 2009

    Very Large Databases (VLDBs) come with their own unique set of management challenges.  In this podcast, Brent Ozar talks about a simple problem: managing file growth when your files are hundreds of gigabytes or larger.

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    For more about Instant File Initialization and other VLDB tips, check out our Very Large Databases wiki article.

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    Roll Your Own Replication – Part 2

    Monday, June 15th, 2009

    SQL Server’s built-in replication has its pros and cons, but it’s not perfect for everybody. Brent Ozar discusses some of the basics behind this popular feature, and then talks about one company that needed more than replication could deliver.

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    Roll Your Own Replication – Part 1

    Friday, June 12th, 2009

    SQL Server’s built-in replication has its pros and cons, but it’s not perfect for everybody.  Brent Ozar discusses some of the basics behind this popular feature, and then talks about one company that needed more than replication could deliver.

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    SQL Server Management Studio Express

    Friday, May 29th, 2009

    Get started managing your SQL Server Express Edition and developing T-SQL with Microsoft’s free SQL Server Management Studio Express Edition.  Learn how from Brent Ozar and Jeremiah Peschka.

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    CMDB Part 2 – The SQL Server 2008 CMS

    Monday, May 4th, 2009

    Rather than building a full-blown CMDB from scratch, Brent explains how you can get started with SQL 2008’s Central Management Server to get a mini-CMDB going.

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    For more about building a CMDB, check out the CMDB tutorial wiki article. We’ve got sample scripts you can use, and instructions on how to get the result data into a database for easier reporting. In the podcast, we also talk about our hour-long free CMDB tutorial webcast, which you can register for and watch the replay.

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    CMDB Part 1 – What It Is

    Thursday, April 30th, 2009

    Configuration Management Databases are an enterprise-quality way of gathering a lot of IT and business information in one place – but how much do DBAs really need?

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    For more about building a CMDB, check out the CMDB tutorial wiki article. We’ve got sample scripts you can use, and instructions on how to get the result data into a database for easier reporting.

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