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• A last word on Policy based Management

  If I search my blog for Policy Based Management in SQL Server, I notice there are a fair few posts on the matter. I am not going to apologise for this as it’s a vital tool in any DBA’s armoury in the world of ever increasing databases compliance and risk... Posted May 24 2010, 09:28 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Security, SQL, SQL Server, SQL Server 2008, Policy Management, IT Management, SQL Server 2008 R2

• Data Governance with SQL Server

  I thought it would be good to write up my talk at the IT Manager TechDays last week, as I get a fair number of questions and the information is not always easy to find. First let me explain what I mean by Governance: It is the policies, best practices... Posted Apr 26 2010, 07:21 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Security, Compliance, Policy Management, IT Management

• SQL Server Advent Calendar 20 – Accidental DBA’s

  Day 20 of my virtual advent calendar, about stuff I like in SQL Server 2008.. The accidental DBA is a DBA who ends up looking after SQL Server as part of a number of other duties e.g. Exchange admin, developer etc. This often occurs because SQL Server... Posted Dec 20 2008, 02:24 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: SQL Server, SQL Server 2008, DBA, Policy Management, IT Management, data collection, management data warehouse, central management server

• SQL Server 2008 Notification Services

  Notification services is one of the deprecated features in SQL Server 2008, essentially it is supported for now but will not be in the next release of SQL Server. If you are using notification services currently and you are looking to upgrade to SQL Server... Posted Oct 21 2008, 08:02 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Reporting Services, performance, upgrade, SQL Server 2008, notification services, Audit, Policy Management, IT Management, Perofmrance Tuning

• SQL Server 2008 Policy Management Blogcast

  Here’s another SQL Server 2008 blogcast on manageability, this time on using Policy Management, to implement best practice in SQL Server: Technorati Tags: SQL Server 2008 , Policy Management Share this post: Read More... Posted Apr 04 2008, 12:27 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: SQL, SQL Server 2008, Blogcast, Policy Management

• SQL Server 2008 Configuration Servers – Blogcast

  Following on form my post on configuration servers in SQL Server 200, I thought you might like to see it in action so here’s a 5 minute blogcast on it…   Technorati Tags: SQL Server 2008 , Configuration servers Share this post: Read More... Posted Apr 03 2008, 07:51 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: SQL, SQL Server 2008, Blogcast, Policy Management, configuration servers

• SQL Server 2008 Configuration Servers

  Following on from my last post, when DBA’s have to manage multiple SQL Server 2000 instances you would normally see all of them registered on their local desktop in enterprise manager under a variety of groups such as dev, prod, test etc. With the... Posted Mar 31 2008, 09:09 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: SQL, SQL Server 2008, Policy Management, configuration servers

• SQL Server 2008 Best Practice

  In SQL Server 2000 and 2005 there is a really useful utility called the Best Practice Analyzer which you can download here .  Essentially it looks at your database configuration and matches this against a set of rules to inform you you of what improvements... Posted Mar 30 2008, 06:15 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: SQL, SQL Server 2008, Policy Management