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		<title>On Disaster Recovery and my SQL Rally 2011 Presentation</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jun 2011 14:16:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edwin Sarmiento</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, I saw a Twitter post regarding the speaker evaluation results from SQL Rally 2011 in Orlando, FL last May. I was surprised to see that my session was in the top 3 best sessions of the conference. I dug up the Excel spreadsheet containing my session evaluation results and began to read. I found [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Disaster Recovery Is More Than Just Technology Part 3: The Lion, The Switch and The Wardrobe</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Feb 2011 15:08:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edwin Sarmiento</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You were in your favourite bar one Saturday night when, suddenly, you hear your mobile phone ring. You pick up the phone and heard the sound of a screaming voice on the other end (no, it&#8217;s not your wife telling you to go home and take out the trash). The background noise is preventing you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Disaster Recovery Is More Than Just Technology Part 2:The Acronyms</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Dec 2010 15:17:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edwin Sarmiento</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In my previous blog post, I talked about high availablity and disaster recovery (HADR) and how it is more than just the underlying technology that keeps the entire strategy intact. In this blog post, I&#8217;ll describe a few acronyms &#8211; sometimes called buzzwords &#8211; that are commonly referred to in HADR projects and implementations (I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Disaster Recovery is More Than Just Technology Part 1</title>
		<link>http://www.pythian.com/news/18599/disaster-recovery-is-more-than-just-technology-part-1/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pythian.com/news/18599/disaster-recovery-is-more-than-just-technology-part-1/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Nov 2010 14:04:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edwin Sarmiento</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[SQL Saturday #61]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[While I was at the PASS Summit 2010, I&#8217;ve spent a fair amount of time at the Ask-the-Experts table on high availability, disaster recovery and virtualization. Conference attendees with different requirements on high availability and disaster recovery come to these tables and ask questions. I&#8217;ve spent a fair amount of time doing high availability and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Live @ SQL PASS Day 1</title>
		<link>http://www.pythian.com/news/18121/live-sql-pass-day-1/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Nov 2010 19:00:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edwin Sarmiento</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[2008 R2 Parallel Data Warehouse]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m here at the PASS Community Summit 2010 in Seattle, WA. This happens to be the largest SQL Server conference in the world with regards to content, attendees and Microsoft participation. With the conference center very close to the Microsoft Redmond campus, Microsoft can afford to send as much as they can from the SQL [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Building a SQL Server 2008 Failover Cluster on Windows Server 2008 Part 1</title>
		<link>http://www.pythian.com/news/14831/building-a-sql-server-2008-failover-cluster-on-windows-server-2008-part-1/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pythian.com/news/14831/building-a-sql-server-2008-failover-cluster-on-windows-server-2008-part-1/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jul 2010 16:40:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edwin Sarmiento</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few weeks ago I did a demonstration on Installing a SQL Server 2008 R2 Failover Cluster on Windows Server 2008 R2 at TechInsights 2010 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and have had questions about what needs to be done as part of the installation. While I&#8217;ve done several of these demonstrations in as short as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Installing SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services 32-bit on a Windows Server 2003 64-bit</title>
		<link>http://www.pythian.com/news/4778/installing-sql-server-2005-reporting-services-32-bit-on-a-windows-server-2003-64-bit/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pythian.com/news/4778/installing-sql-server-2005-reporting-services-32-bit-on-a-windows-server-2003-64-bit/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 19:35:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edwin Sarmiento</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Installing a 32-bit version of SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services on a Windows Server 2003 64-bit could be a bit of a challenge, as it requires IIS. I have seen several customers who purchased servers with Windows Server 2003 64-bit pre-loaded while they only have a license for a 32-bit SQL Server 2005. It is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Windows PowerShell for the SQL Server DBA</title>
		<link>http://www.pythian.com/news/2949/windows-powershell-for-the-sql-server-dba/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pythian.com/news/2949/windows-powershell-for-the-sql-server-dba/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 19:23:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edwin Sarmiento</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Most people think Windows administrators make a living with their right-hand&#8212;you know, right-clicking and left-clicking the user interface to get things done. While anybody can do that in Windows, the real value comes in when you no longer need to rely so much on the user interface but instead write scripts. Lower total cost of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Building a Windows Server 2008 Cluster, Part 3</title>
		<link>http://www.pythian.com/news/1481/building-a-windows-server-2008-cluster-part-3/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pythian.com/news/1481/building-a-windows-server-2008-cluster-part-3/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2009 20:31:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edwin Sarmiento</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Create Cluster Wizard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Failover Cluster Management]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In Part 1 of this series, we prepared our Windows Server 2008 servers to be a part of a cluster. Part 2 showed us how we can add the shared disks, install the Failover Cluster Feature, and run the Validate Cluster Configuration Wizard. In this post, we will complete the process by creating a Windows [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Building a Windows Server 2008 Cluster, Part 2</title>
		<link>http://www.pythian.com/news/1471/building-a-windows-server-2008-cluster-part-2/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pythian.com/news/1471/building-a-windows-server-2008-cluster-part-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Feb 2009 22:14:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edwin Sarmiento</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Teredo Tunneling Pseudo-Interface]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In Part 1 of this series, we prepared our Windows Server 2008 servers to be a part of a cluster. In this part, we will look at adding the iSCSI disks to the servers. The series of steps outlined below should be done on both nodes. Before we go any further, I must mention that [...]]]></description>
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