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I was talking to some of my clients and colleagues recently about the Free SQL Server Training and enthusing about the community experience and free training available. Although the paid training has its place in learning its important to combine this with
As you may know I’ve been very impressed with Storage Spaces in Windows. With the new Storage Tiering in Windows Server 2012 R2 Microsoft have just included a must have feature.Simply install a few (or one) standard HDD’s and one or
The MCSA: Windows 8 and MCSA: Windows Server 2012 have now been updated as per the post on born to learn at: http://borntolearn.mslearn.net/btl/b/weblog/archive/2014/01/09/mcsa-windows-8-and-mcsa-windows-server-2012-exams-to-be-updated-january-28-2014.aspxSome of the new features are fantastic such as storage tiering and PowerShell Desired State Configuration.
Earn a Microsoft Virtualization Certification for free at http://www.microsoftvirtualacademy.com/offers/virtualizationsquaredoffer in “Server Virtualization with Windows Server Hyper-V and System Center”.This offer is still available as of 15th January 2014 so be quick to get a voucher, book the exam, build labs, have
With the cashback offers on the HP Microserver many of us have purchased one, or more, of them to do a variety of tasks in the SOHO environment, such as backup servers, technology labs and more. I’d bought mine for
The other day I was reminded about best practice but not at work – at home, when my NAS drive failed.We’re all used to mission critical environments and taking care of data with a proper backup and restore plan in the
In an earlier post we looked in the United Kingdom and how we might use postcodes together with the geography data type in SQL Server 2012.Now as our next step we will optimise our query to make use of the
I’ve been looking at the shiny new things in SQL Server 2014, now that the CTP2 is out and after my post on SQL Server Agent jobs AlwaysOn and SQL Agent Jobs which used management views to see if the current
SQL Server 2014 CTP2 is now available at http://technet.microsoft.com/en-US/evalcenter/dn205290.aspx
After setting up a new Availability group and leaving its settings as the defaults, “Prefer Secondary” for Backup and Readable Secondary to “No”, Data Protection Manager cannot complete a successful consistency check.Simply setting the Readable Secondary to “Yes” for all