Archive for January, 2010
Upgraded
I’ve just upgraded all three of my sites (this one, my personal site, and my Pug site) to the latest version of WordPress. Keeping current on your software is one more way to prevent getting hacked.
My Updated SQL Server 2005 Install Checklist
If you’ve been following me lately (either my blog or Twitter), you know that I’m in the process of building up some new servers on a new SAN for a big database consolidation.
After the first server, I had a pretty good checklist. Brent Ozar has a pretty fantastic checklist that I stole a few items [...]
Moving System Files
Having built one database server in my new environment, the second one is an awful lot easier.
The following six lines of code saved me a ton of time this morning.
ALTER DATABASE [tempdb] MODIFY FILE (name = tempdev, FILENAME = ‘D:\TempDB\tempdb.mdf’)
ALTER DATABASE [tempdb] MODIFY FILE (name = templog, FILENAME = ‘D:\TempDB\templog.ldf’)
ALTER DATABASE [msdb] MODIFY FILE ( [...]
Server Builds
I’m building a new server. Actually, I’m building two. We just bought a new pair of SANS (one production, one DR) and are doing a consolidation project with our databases.
Each DB server will live on its own VMWare host. We’re virtualizing so that we can utilize VMWare’s clustering. It also gives us the flexibility to [...]