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Microsoft, and Hadoop for Big Data

Despite common misconceptions Microsoft now has extensive interoperability with open source...

Author: Andrew.Fryer Date: 07/05/2012

Hyper-V Snapshots in Production

It’s sometimes quite difficult to talk and think at the same time, and at our camps last week I...

Author: Andrew.Fryer Date: 06/22/2012

PowerShell convert

Back in the day I worked with this amazing guy James O’Neill (@jamesoneill) who really got...

Author: Andrew.Fryer Date: 06/06/2012

Contain your Enthusiasm

You may be aware that I am still keen on SQL Server and despite the changing nature of my role at...

Author: Andrew.Fryer Date: 05/29/2012

SQL Relay Notes and Queries

I wanted to something different for SQL Relay last week as this is a community driven event and I...

Author: Andrew.Fryer Date: 05/28/2012

Hyper-V security

Curiously one of the topics we hardly ever get asked about at our IT Camps is security in...

Author: Andrew.Fryer Date: 05/11/2012

SQL Relay 2012

Four cities,  in four days makes for one tired evangelist, so why am I doing SQL Relay with the...

Author: Andrew.Fryer Date: 05/07/2012

Business Intelligence for the Private Cloud part 1

If you have looked at any of the new components of System Center 2012 you may have noticed that...

Author: Andrew.Fryer Date: 04/30/2012

Private Cloud IT Camps

I have covered some of what we do at IT camps in a couple of previous posts, but what we did in...

Author: Andrew.Fryer Date: 03/23/2012

System Center Advisor– now live

I remember hearing about a Project Houston about a year ago, a cunning plan to allow Microsoft to...

Author: Andrew.Fryer Date: 03/07/2012

Notes from IT Camp, Leeds 28th Feb

Simon and I did our first IT camp in Leeds on Tuesday, and I would like to say thank you to those...

Author: Andrew.Fryer Date: 03/01/2012

Managing a hybrid cloud with System Center 2012

Hybrid cloud is the term applied to the increasingly common scenario where a business runs some of...

Author: Andrew.Fryer Date: 02/17/2012

Microsoft System Center and BMC Management Tools Integration and Interaction

In his second guest post Greg Charman from Kelverion has a look at BMC integration. Many customers...

Author: Andrew.Fryer Date: 02/14/2012

Exploiting Orchestrator - Tips to avoid the hidden bear traps

Following on from my last post about getting started with System Center 2012 Orchestrator, I asked a...

Author: Andrew.Fryer Date: 02/13/2012

Superglue now available for System Center 2012

One of my frustrations to date when showing off System Center 2012 is that it doesn’t quite fit...

Author: Andrew.Fryer Date: 02/09/2012

Application Platform Knowledge Hub

Albert Einstein once remarked that you don’t need to remember everything, you just needed to...

Author: Andrew.Fryer Date: 02/06/2012

What’s good in SQL Server 2012 Integration Services

This is a guest post by Allan Mitchell MVP, and one of the top speakers at SQL Bits   The...

Author: Andrew.Fryer Date: 02/06/2012

Event: IT Camp Leeds Feb 28th

Back in December Simon and I invited a few friends along to help us beta test a different kind of...

Author: Andrew.Fryer Date: 02/01/2012

Anywhere Working actually works

It’s Work Anywhere week but working anywhere isn’t working everywhere. By that I mean...

Author: Andrew.Fryer Date: 01/26/2012

DTS RIP

Data Transformation Services is the bit of SQL Server that helped pay for my house, car and some...

Author: Andrew.Fryer Date: 01/26/2012

Some SQL Server 2012 upgrade advice for ISVs

I have spent a lot if time recently briefing Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) on SQL Server...

Author: Andrew.Fryer Date: 01/18/2012

Educated desktops

Simon and I have spent most of last week on stand duty at BETT one of the largest education events...

Author: Andrew.Fryer Date: 01/16/2012

ITIL and System Center 2012

If ITIL is the Why , the What and the When of IT operations System Center provides the how.. I have...

Author: Andrew.Fryer Date: 01/09/2012

How to Plan an ITIL Infrastructure Implementation

In the last guest blog post from Erin Palmer he looked at how to manage IT chaos with the adoption...

Author: Andrew.Fryer Date: 01/04/2012

How to Manage Chaos with an ITIL Framework

I have to confess I don’t know too much about the detailed mechanics of ITIL, but I couple of months...

Author: Andrew.Fryer Date: 01/03/2012

Merry Christmas and a Happy 2012

My Christmas card for 2011 is inspired by a frequent visitor to my back garden the Goldcrest. ...

Author: Andrew.Fryer Date: 12/23/2011

Virtual machine density in your data centre

I can only run 11 server based  Virtual machines on my laptop, but all bar three of them are...

Author: Andrew.Fryer Date: 12/20/2011

IT Camps

We aren’t all the same, we learn differently, we work in a wide range of business that have very...

Author: Andrew.Fryer Date: 12/13/2011

NO SQL Server

I spent last Thursday at Black Marble’s Architect Forum and my slot was on SQL, NoSQL, some SQL. It...

Author: Andrew.Fryer Date: 12/10/2011

BCDBoot–one of my new best friends

I am getting ready for a series of interactive events next month and one of the things I wanted to...

Author: Andrew.Fryer Date: 11/29/2011

SQL Server 2012 – TSQL

I have to confess I hadn’t paid too much attention to the changes to T-SQL in SQL Server 2012, and...

Author: Andrew.Fryer Date: 11/16/2011

SQL Server 2012 – Always On

There have always been several ways to do high availability in SQL Server, but choosing the right...

Author: Andrew.Fryer Date: 11/15/2011

Anti-Virus and Hyper-V, Yes or No?

The parent operating system in Hyper-V is windows server and it’s a relatively simple matter to...

Author: Andrew.Fryer Date: 11/09/2011

SQL Server 2012 editions and dependencies

You may have seen that there are going to be some changes to the way SQL Server 2012 is licensed and...

Author: Andrew.Fryer Date: 11/08/2011

Getting Started with SCOM 2012 beta

System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) 2012 is now in beta along with all of the other System...

Author: Andrew.Fryer Date: 11/03/2011

SQL Server 2012 and the private cloud

Putting up a marketing slide that says SQL Server is a good private cloud citizen is good marketing,...

Author: Andrew.Fryer Date: 11/01/2011

System Center 2012–It’s all about the application

The Accountants, sales guys and lawyers in your business don’t understand or care about how...

Author: Andrew.Fryer Date: 10/24/2011

SQL Server HP Appliances & the modern data centre

There is a lot of advice on whether to virtualise SQL Server and many dbas are under pressure to do...

Author: Andrew.Fryer Date: 10/17/2011

Certifiable

Yesterday I spent a great day at the Leeds Virtual Machine User Group, with attendees varying from...

Author: Andrew.Fryer Date: 10/12/2011

SQL Relay

I am in the middle of SQL relay this week, but I just realised that you might like to have a copy of...

Author: Andrew.Fryer Date: 10/05/2011

Does “self service BI” mean more or less work for IT?

Before I answer that question I want to be clear on what exactly self service BI means as you could...

Author: Andrew.Fryer Date: 10/05/2011

SQL Bits 11 - Notes & Queries

If you didn’t manage to fight your fight your way through the Everton & Liverpool fans to SQL...

Author: Andrew.Fryer Date: 10/03/2011

A quick introduction to Hyper-V

Further to my last post, I also see a lot of confusion around Microsoft’s server virtualisation...

Author: Andrew.Fryer Date: 09/21/2011

A quick introduction to server virtualisation

This might seem an odd post to write, given that server virtualisation has been around for years,...

Author: Andrew.Fryer Date: 09/19/2011

SQL Server sprawl

Normally the term sprawl carries an implied criticism, in the case of SQL server that DBAs have lost...

Author: Andrew.Fryer Date: 09/07/2011

Beyond Relational– Semantic Search with SQL Server FileTable

Semantic Search new for SQL Server Denali adds extra intelligence to the FullText search capability...

Author: Andrew.Fryer Date: 09/06/2011

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