June 2008 - Posts

• Hyper-V is RTM and How to Migrate Existing VHD Files

  Now that Hyper-V is RTM, why should you care? Because it performs very well! If you do demos using virtual machines on a laptop, do yourself a favor and upgrade to Hyper-V. If you have a production data center with lots of virtual machines, you might Read More... Posted Thursday, June 26, 2008 2:24 PM by John Paul Cook | 0 Comments

• DBA Toolkit from the Cloud

  I've previously blogged about a DBA toolkit on a USB stick. Now you can get the Sysinternals tools from the cloud. Just browse to http://live.sysinternals.com/ and click on the tool you need. It doesn't install, it just runs. Below is a screen capture Read More... Posted Wednesday, June 11, 2008 11:59 PM by John Paul Cook | 4 Comments

• Upgrading Your Virtual Machines to Hyper-V

  With SQL Server 2008 RC0 available for download now, people are asking about Hyper-V versus Virtual PC and Virtual Server. For best performance, I recommend that you build a Hyper-V virtual machine. This raises a question about convenience. What if you Read More... Posted Sunday, June 08, 2008 5:42 AM by John Paul Cook | 3 Comments

• Hyper-V at TechEd, Questions and Answers

  On the first day of TechEd for developers, I answered quite a few questions about Hyper-V. Today from 11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. (Wednesday June 4, 2008) and tomorrow from 1:30 - 2:30 p.m. I'm presenting on incorporating Hyper-V into the application lifecycle Read More... Posted Wednesday, June 04, 2008 9:38 AM by John Paul Cook | 0 Comments

• Using Hyper-V? Be careful of versions and patches.

  It's early in the morning here at the TechEd conference for developers in Orlando, Florida. I've already helped two people with Hyper-V problems caused by incompatible version numbers. Since blog posts live on long past the date of publication, I'm going Read More... Posted Tuesday, June 03, 2008 11:03 AM by John Paul Cook | 0 Comments