My lovely wife Heather gave me a call and said… “Guess what I have in my hands?” I had heard that Ken and Jorge received their author copies this week so I was very quick to guess it right Can’t wait to get home today and check it out… I have all the pdf page [...]
Posts Tagged ‘PBM’
SQL Server 2008 Internals and Troubleshooting and DBA Survivor
OK so I’m back from an extended vacation from BenchmarkITConsulting.com and although my vacation had nothing to do with warm weather, beaches, or bacon it was time well spent on finishing up my chapters for the soon to be released Pro Server 2008 Policy-Based Management book. After going through this process I have a whole new [...]
Heard it from a friend who… heard it from a friend who…
Background music while you read this post Have I mentioned how much I love the SQL community…. Hey… have you heard that Jonathan Kehayis wrote a blog post about some uses for DBINFO and the dbi_version and dbi_createVersion values? Yeah but did you hear that Paul Randal wrote a blog post about Checking if Data Purity [...]
Categorizing your Policies… yes ANOTHER PBM post
I’m sorry but I’m loving me some PBM right now. Something that I’ve found to be very useful is creating a custom Policy Category. I have scheduled jobs that evaluates all the policies that belong to a specific category. So what I do is I categorize the Policies that I want ran based on when [...]
Fail Whale for SSMS and CMS for PBM using PS
Translation: Fail Whale for SQL Server Management Studio and Central Management Server for Policy Based Managment using PowerShell…. lol simple eh? So this is a Microsoft Connect Item in the making… I had created a PowerShell script to run a bunch of policies against a list of servers that I defined in a ServerList.txt file. [...]
