Dec 16 2011
On the fourth day of Christmas I gave a gift to you… Four Words to Live By Three Training Events… Two Twitter Handles… and Mirrored Disks with Parity Stop As in “Know when to Stop.” This bit of advice applies to many things. Knowing when to call it a day, turn of the lights, [...]
Dec 15 2011
On the third day of Christmas my Manager gave to me… Three Training Events Two Twitter Handles… and Mirrored Disks with Parity I Can’t Get No Satisfaction I am never satisfied with the amount of knowledge I possess. Most of us are like that in our profession because if we stand still we are [...]
Dec 14 2011
On the second day of Christmas I gave a gift to me… Two Twitter Handles and Mirrored Disks with Parity. Two Twitter Handles… why? A Base Twitter Primer Twitter, in and of itself is a great tool for communicating with one, or many “followers” in 140 characters. At the core it really is nothing more [...]
Dec 13 2011
On the first day of Christmas my SAN Admin gave to me striped disks with parity… Yes, this is known as RAID 5 and is ideal and preferred for user database data files in Microsoft SQL Server. Why? Satisfactory performance – disks are striped Good redundancy – parity is distributed Lowest-cost RAID option for performance [...]
