If you’re in the Iowa City area, come to Iowa Code Camp this weekend! They have a great lineup of speakers, covering the full gamut of development topics – Agile, Node.js, ORMs, UI design, Javascript, interviewing, R, NoSQL, SQL Server, and many more. I’ll be presenting my session on SQL Server encryption at 10:30: We’ve all seen […]
Creating a Self-Contained Multi-Subnet Test Environment, Part II – Adding a Domain Controller
This is the second in a series of articles about creating a simulated environment for testing systems that cross subnets. Part 1: Networking Part 2: Domain Controller In Part I of this series, I showed you how to setup the networking and router for our simulated network. In this article, we’ll create the domain controller.
Creating a Self-Contained Multi-Subnet Test Environment, Part I – Networking
For a recent presentation on using availability groups for disaster recovery, I needed a test environment that contained multiple separate subnets – something that approximates what you’d see in an enterprise that has multiple remote data centers. I found bits and pieces of the configuration on other sites, but nothing comprehensive. This post will walk […]
Teach Something New: PowerShell Providers [T-SQL Tuesday #065]
Mike Donnelly (b|t) invited the SQL New Blogger Challenge participants to join in this month’s T-SQL Tuesday, and I’m happy to accept – I’ve been meaning to write for a T-SQL Tuesday for quite some time. The topic is “Teach Something New”, which also happens to work well with a challenge issued to me by […]
Documentation: Are You Ready?
Would your coworkers know how to handle your job if you weren’t there? This question was top-of-mind for me last week as I headed out-of-town for a family emergency. All too often, my answer to such a question has been “no” or “somewhat”. Many people in IT (consultants included) would have to answer that question […]