Posted by Vanessa Simmons on Jul 23, 2010
Welcome to Log Buffer, the weekly roundup of database industry news.
For your reading pleasure this week we have Log Buffer #196:
Charles Hooper blogs about an in-depth investigation on what can cause Oracle to ignore a hint.
Doug Burns reminds his readers that there are only two weeks left to submit papers for UKOUG. The deadline is Aug. 2.
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Posted by Edwin Sarmiento on Jul 23, 2010
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’ve done several of these demonstrations in as short as 45 minutes to an hour, creating a SQL Server Failover Cluster is not something that you do in that timeframe. Planning the server infrastructure, disk allocations, network configuration and bunch of other technologies that relate to Windows Clustering need to be considered.
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