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Devs the New Superheroes and Rockstars? What About IT?

Posted February 27, 2013 by Allan Hirt in Administration, DBA, development, private cloud, process, rant, SQL Server, virtualization

Developers are the future? Allan doesn’t think so … or does he?

Maintaining Quorum During Windows Patching and Updating

Posted June 28, 2012 by Allan Hirt in failover clustering, mission critical, patching, process, quorum, SQL Server 2005, SQL Server 2008, SQL Server 2008 R2, SQL Server 2012, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2012

Ensure you don’t have accidental downtime during patching due to losing quorum

Rome Wasn’t Built In 15 Minutes … Neither Is a SQL Server Solution

Posted August 5, 2009 by Allan Hirt in advice, consulting, process, SQL Server

I hit on this topic a little in my previous blog post (Helping the Helpers), but I wanted to expand on it in a different way. Whether you’re posting to a newsgroup, at a conference in a 75 minute session, or even paying for an hour of help, very rarely – if ever – are […]

Want a Great Example of Why People and Process (Including Testing) Matter for High Availability and Disaster Recovery?

Posted May 21, 2009 by Allan Hirt in high availability, process, testing

I live in the Boston area. Today, there were massive delays on the T trains (public transportation) all due to a power outage. The power outage which lasted about 7 minutes, was inadvertently caused by a maintenance crew accidentally tripping a breaker at one of the worst possible times – rush hour. To get everything back up […]

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Devs the New Superheroes and Rockstars? What About IT?

Maintaining Quorum During Windows Patching and Updating

Rome Wasn’t Built In 15 Minutes … Neither Is a SQL Server Solution

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