Microsoft have announced the plans for the last Service Packs for SQL Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008 R2 to be released after the end of mainstream support for both of these versions come July 8, 2014. You can find out more about what this means for you.
In this post I am going to take you through my journey to becoming a Microsoft Certified Solutions Master.
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Being on-call I received an alert for a client with the following message – ‘The following jobs(s) failed to execute..
When building a Windows Server 2008 Stretch cluster you may experience some issues when adding some clustered disk. In this blog I discuss how to get around this issue and how to use cluster.exe to achieve the desired outcome with a working Cluster.
SQL Server 2008 SP2 was made available in September 2010. If you want to stay up to date with your..
SQL Server 2008 SP1 was made available in August 2009. If you want to stay up to date with your..
Hi, I'm Warwick Rudd, I am a Microsoft Data Platform MVP as well as a Microsoft Certified Master working as the Principal Consultant here at SQL Masters Consulting.
In my blog I will look at all things SQL Server as well as some things outside of the SQL Server relm but hopefully you will find them helpful and interesting.