SQLCruise

I’ve been bad.  I havent’ updated my blog for a while, or continue writing the Virtualization series that I started weeks ago.  Yes, I’m using the old excuse that work just get in a way of my bloggin’.

I will try to be better though.   I think I really need to make the time to do it and not just talking about it.

Today’s post – nothing technical.  Just the fact that SQL Cruise is approaching quickly and I’m so excited about it.   SQL Sentry, which is one of the sponsor just announce the WINNERS (yes, plural) of their SQL Cruise contest.   I think to have a vendor that contribute a lot to community that way is super awesome.   The detail about it is on SQL Cruise web site.

So far, from the list, we have a whole crew of awesome.   I think this will be the most valuable training I ever attend, not only how close and personal this is going to be, but the attendee itself are a good mixed of database professional that seems to be a lot of fun!

61 days to go and counting!

Won’t Fix Bug

If you are installing CU9 on Clustered SQL2005-SP3 environment and your security is set as mixed authentication – beware about this behavior.   The install change your authentication to windows only.

You need to go back and change it manually after the CU install successfully.

I can’t find any reference to this issue anywhere until I post this question at #sqlhelp on twitter and Kendra Little blog | twitter responded to me and said that she experienced the same thing and point me to the this page (you might need to login using your windows live id).  This is a bug # 450316.

So apparently this is a known bug that was reported with CU4.   What interesting with this, Microsoft reported that this is a registry issue with SP3 installation and it should be a self-correcting issue so they close this bug with a note ‘Won’t Fix’

Well – I just did CU9 on my SQL2005Entx64-SP3 and the issue still out there and I dont think this is ‘self-correcting’.   Anybody out there experience the same?

I don’t know if SQL2008 SP1 have similar behavior with their CU, but I will see if I can test it on my sandbox.   Just for a note tho – this ONLY happened on a clustered instance (or at least for me)

Switching to WordPress

What made me switch, you may ask. Well, let see. I found out today that I can’t just copy-and-paste the content from my word documents to this interface! That is incredibly annoying, especially have pages of stuff that I write today for setting up my server farm within my desktop.

I refuse to re-type because not only that a huge waste of time, mostly because it just irked the heck out of me so I have stuff over on my other hosting already and will have the domain switch in the jiffy and I should be able to copy-and-paste the stuff I write on word to it.

Stay tuned. (Again)