Articles by Warwick Rudd

SQL Server 2012 : Management Data Warehouse

April 15th, 2012

Management Data Warehouse provides you the ability to capture information about your SQL Server environment to be used for capacity planning activities or to help troubleshoot issues that may be happening in your SQL Server environment. In this Blog i take you through setting up Management Data Warehouse in SQL Server 21012.

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A new look at Microsoft SQL Server Certifications

April 14th, 2012

Microsoft learning have revamped the certifications associated with Microsoft SQL Server. To find out more about these changes read more in this blog post.

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Pass SQLSaturday #137

April 11th, 2012

The schedule for SQLSaturday #137 in Canberra has been released. To help you arrange your day to see the sessions you are most interested in.

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SQL Server 2012 : General Availability

April 3rd, 2012

SQL Server 2012 is finally here and available for you to download and implement in your environments.

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SQL Server 2012: Books Online

April 2nd, 2012

With the release of SQL Server 2012, a new help system is available. You will be using BOL which shipped with the product software. This has now changed and you need to configure how you access BOL after your installation. In this post I take you through the steps to configure your BOL access for your SQL Server 2012 Instance.

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SQL Server 2012 : Prerequisites

March 31st, 2012

SQL Server 2012 is due to be released on April 1 2012. One of the big components of the new version is SQL Server AlwaysOn. This technology provides a new granular approach to meeting your High Availability and Disaster Recovery Requirements in this ever increasingly complex world of data. This is the third of a 3 part blog series that I take you through SQL Server 2012 AlwaysOn.

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SQL Server 2012 AlwaysOn : Availability Groups

March 31st, 2012

SQL Server 2012 is due to be released on April 1 2012. One of the big components of the new version is SQL Server AlwaysOn. This technology provides a new granular approach to meeting your High Availability and Disaster Recovery requirements in this ever increasingly complex world of data. This is the second of a 3 part blog series that I take you through SQL Server 2012 AlwaysOn.

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SQL Server 2012 AlwaysOn

March 31st, 2012

SQL Server 2012 is due to be released on April 1 2012. One of the big components of the new version is SQL Server AlwaysOn. This technology provides a new granular approach to meeting your High Availability and Disaster Recovery Requirements in this ever increasingly complex world of data. This is the first of a 3 part blog series that I take you through SQL Server 2012 AlwaysOn.

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Pass SQLSaturday #135

March 28th, 2012

The schedule for SQLSaturday #135 in Brisbane has been released. To help you arrange your day to see the sessions you are most interested in.

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SQL Server 2012 Edition Comparison

March 26th, 2012

With the release of SQL Server 2012 there has been a slight change in the edition available. The removal of the Datacenter edition, but the inclusion of the Business Intelligence Edition. To find out more about these changes compare the available editions.

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SQL Server 2012 Supported Features

March 25th, 2012

With the imminent release of SQL Server 2012, you may be looking at some new implementations or Upgrades and are looking to find out what features are supported in the various editions of SQL Server 2012.

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HP Enterprise DBC Appliance

March 18th, 2012

HP and Microsoft have partnered together to build this consolidation appliance that has been optimized specifically for SQL Server 2008 R2. This appliance provides for your one stop private cloud.

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Warwick

I am a Microsoft Data Platform MVP as well as a Microsoft Certified Master working as the Principal Consultant here at SQL Masters Consulting. When I am not working with the SQL Server Stack I like to get away to the Snow and spend time Snowboarding.

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