Greg Lucas Test-driven Database Development – Why Bother? Test-Driven Development is a practice that can bring many benefits, including better design, and less-buggy code, but is it relevant... 16 March 2012 12 min read
Blogs Phil Factor in Blogs Database Migration Scripts: Getting from place A to place B We’ll be looking at a typical database ‘migration’ script which uses an unusual technique to migrate existing ‘de-normalised’ data into... 28 February 2012 8 min read
Alex Kuznetsov Yet Another SQL Strategy for Versioned Data There is a popular design for a database that requires a built-in audit-trail of amendments and additions, where data is... 22 June 2011 11 min read
Database DevOps Troy Hunt in Database DevOps The 10 Commandments of Good Source Control Management Simple-Talk generally doesn't re-publish anything from another site, but Troy's popular blog post on the Ten Commandments of Source Control... 23 May 2011 19 min read
Sean Duffy VMware Lab setup – A virtualized lab for testing HA and DRS VMWare VSphere is a virtualisation technology that is best learned by setting up, on a single PC, a VSphere cluster... 12 April 2011 24 min read
Sean Duffy Setting up your own free Virtualized test environment If you need to test new software, configurations, or operating systems, a virtual machine saves time, risk and hardware. You... 26 August 2010 12 min read
Jaap Wesselius Hyper-V R2 Live Migration on Server Core – Part I If you're working with Hyper-V, it's recommended that you use Windows Server 2008 R2 Server Core for your root partition,... 06 July 2010 12 min read
Jonathan Medd 10 Steps to Kick-Start Your VMware Automation with PowerCLI Virtualization is a powerful technology, but it comes with its own host of monotonous and time-consuming tasks, no matter how... 02 June 2010 17 min read
Sean Duffy Virtual Machine Storage Provisioning and Best Practises If you're using virtualization technology, then at some point you'll have run out of (or will run out of) virtual... 14 May 2010 17 min read
Jaap Wesselius Hyper-V R2 Live Migration Reliability is one of the great payoffs to virtualization, and failover clustering has got a whole lot better with Windows... 10 February 2010 11 min read
Jonathan Medd Using VMware vCenter Update Manager to keep your vSphere Hosts Up-To-Date with Patching The chore of patching operating systems and applications is taking an increasing proportion of the time of a system administrator,... 09 February 2010 15 min read
Ben Lye Regional Office Virtualization – Less Can Be More The dream of an 'office in a box' has been around for years, but the increasing sophistication of virtualization software... 14 January 2010 7 min read
Nirmal Sharma Microsoft Hyper-V Networking and Configuration – Part 1 In the first of a series of articles on Hyper-V Networking, Nirmal explains Hyper-V networking and VLAN tagging, and shows... 11 December 2009 14 min read
Nirmal Sharma Increasing the Availability of Virtualised Applications and Services By using a virtualized clustering computing environment with failover, you can improve server availability without using as many physical computers.... 22 October 2009 23 min read
Brien Posey A Beginner’s Guide to Virtualizing Exchange Server, Part 2 It isn't easy to measure the consumption of physical resources by servers in virtual machines, since each partition has its'... 10 June 2009 14 min read
Jaap Wesselius Windows Server Virtualisation: Hyper-V, an Introduction For SQL Server and Exchange Server, Windows Server Virtualization is going to be increasingly important as a way for the... 01 June 2009 11 min read
Brien Posey A Beginner’s Guide to Virtualizing Exchange Server, Part 1 The advantage of virtualizing your servers is that it helps you make better use of your hardware resources, and reduces... 05 May 2009 17 min read
Desmond Lee Build Your Own Virtualized Test Lab Desmond explains the fundamentals of building a test lab for Windows servers and Enterprise applications from scratch using Hyper-V on... 05 January 2009 14 min read
Jaap Wesselius Virtual Exchange Servers Microsoft now supports running Exchange Server 2007 in server virtualization environments, not just on Hyper-V, but on any virtualizing solution... 20 November 2008 14 min read
