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When Is It Time To Stop Using a Deprecated Feature?

Posted August 23, 2012 by Allan Hirt in Administration, advice, AlwaysOn, database mirroring, failover clustering, log shipping, PowerShell, SQL Server, SQL Server 2005, SQL Server 2008, SQL Server 2008 R2, SQL Server 2012, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2012

What do you do when you rely on something and then it’s gone?

SQL Server Denali, Upgrading, Supported Platforms, and You

Posted June 10, 2011 by Allan Hirt in SQL Server 2000, SQL Server 2005, SQL Server 2008, SQL Server 2008 R2, SQL Server Denali, upgrade, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2, x64, x86

MS has published the versions of Windows and the supported upgrade paths. Here’s my take.

Patching Clustered SQL Server Instances with SQL Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008 R2

Posted May 10, 2011 by Allan Hirt in failover clustering, SQL Server 2008, SQL Server 2008 R2, SQL Server 2008 Service Pack 1, SQL Server 2008 Service Pack 2, whitepaper, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2

Learn how to properly update a clustered instance of SQL Server 2008 or SQL Server 2008 R2. See the whitepaper for ALL of the details!

Scripting the Addition and Removal of Cluster Nodes as Possible Owners of a Resource

Posted February 7, 2011 by Allan Hirt in failover clustering, PowerShell, SQL Server 2008, SQL Server 2008 R2, SQL Server 2008 Service Pack 1, SQL Server 2008 Service Pack 2, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2

Find out how to properly script adding and removing nodes from a resource in a failover cluster

SQL Server Failover Clustering Now Supported Under Virtualization for Production Use! (And A Final TechEd Update)

Posted May 19, 2009 by Allan Hirt in failover clustering, SQL Server 2005, SQL Server 2008, SQL Server 2008 R2, TechEd, virtualization, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2

Clustering Virtual Machines in Production Yesterday (5/19/09), the KB article which details the support policy for SQL Server failover clusters was officially updated to include support for clustering guests/Virtual Machines … including in production. So anyone who talked to me at TechEd last week, I was right until yesterday 🙂 Now a couple of points […]

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