Show notes, episode 2.36: Allan! Allan! Allan! Allan! Allan!

In this week’s episode of DBAs@Midnight (live at http://bit.ly/DBAShow at 11pm CST Friday), we talked about a bunch of things.

The full show is up! Here’s the direct link to the WMV video file: http://bit.ly/ieVx71

We DEFINITELY had the REAL LIVE NO-JOKE ALLEN HIRT (Twitter ) on tonight. AND he played bass for us. WOOT!!!!

Edit: Allan’s upcoming whitepaper we talk about in this episode is now UP! See Applying Updates to a Clustered Instance of SQL Server 2008 or SQL Server 2008 R2 for all the awesome you can handle!

We ALSO played DBAs@Midnight Bingo. Spectators chose from among these three cards, and one lucky winner, uh, won a custom-signed copy of Allan’s book!

Bingo 1: Bingo 2: Bingo 3:

Topics:

Allan’s blog: www.sqlha.com/blog
Twitter update, including the ability to print on an egg. At last!! http://bit.ly/mnQ53k
Generic update time:
Sean has big news!! Nic says “you are now worth half a Denny”
Ass tons of HA talk with Alan. A-W-E-S-O-M-E.
Dog.
More ass tons of HA talk with Alan. M-O-R-E A-W-E-S-O-M-E.
S: What do DBAs need to know about SAN? A: What DON”T they need to know? Disk I/O is one of the keys to performance with SQL…
DataMongrel won the first round of BINGO. He wins an autographed copy of Allan’s “Pro SQL Server 2008 Failover Clustering”!
Allan == Leonard. Good call, GeekDrew.
You should check out www.SQLExcursions.com … it’s a seriously good idea. First excursion is to Napa!
My blog: Learn T-SQL in 5 Minutes
Sean blog: Getting a good look at deadlocks
Allan’s new white paper coming out soon (from Quest): How to properly patch multi node clusters. Sean loved this one: Testing and Developing Supportability Roadmaps for Independent Software Vendor Applications
Sean: “Being a Senior DBA means you have the balls to pull the plug on production.”
DataMongrel: RESTORE DATABASE lost_with_no_backup WITH RESURRECTION