Articles by Warwick Rudd

Performance Analysis of Logs V2.3 is a tool available for download from codeplex that can help you easily analyse performance logs from your environment.

Amazon RDS is providing you an offer, allowing you to have a look at and test out SQL Server in the Cloud for free for 12 months.

SQL Server 2012 AlwaysOn provides you the ability to control your SQL Server environment with more control to meet your High Availability and Disaster Recovery requirements. These 2 videos take you through setting up your environment as well as monitoring your environment.

SQL Server 2012, has a feature pack which is a collection of stand-alone packages which provide additional value to your instance of SQL Server 2012. We are having a look at the Performance Dashboard Reports package.

SQL Server Policy-Based Management allows for DBA's to manage their SQL Server environment with enforcing standard policies. This post gives a general overview of how this is accomplished.

Central Management Servers were introduced in SQL Server 2008 to provide a central location to manage SQL Server environments. This blog takes you through configuring your Central Management Server environment in SQL Server 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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.