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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