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ABSTRACT:
Are you a SQL Server DBA new to working with storage area networks (SANs)? In this podcast, SQL Server MVP Hilary Cotter shares SAN basics for beginners. Cotter explains the benefits of using SANs in place of DAS (direct attached storage), how to troubleshoot SAN performance and the most common problems DBAs have when configuring SQL Servers to use SANs.
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Speaker
Hilary Cotter
SQL Server MVP
Hilary Cotter, SQL Server MVP, has been involved in IT for more than 20 years as a Web and database consultant, and has worked with SQL Server for 11 years. Cotter is Director of Text Mining at RelevantNoise, dedicated to indexing blogs for business intelligence. Microsoft first awarded Cotter the Microsoft SQL Server MVP award in 2001. Cotter received his bachelor of applied science degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Toronto and studied economics at the University of Calgary and computer science at UC Berkeley. He is author of the book "A Guide to SQL Server 2000 Transactional and Snapshot Replication" and is currently working on books devoted to merge replication and Microsoft search technologies. Hilary Cotter can be contacted at hilary.cotter@gmail.com.
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