Planning a SQL Server consolidation is a mammoth task. You can simplify the project by breaking it into individual components, which I'll review in this step-by-step guide.
This information is excerpted from Chapter 2, 'Planning your SQL Server consolidation,'
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How to consolidate SQL Servers
Home: Introduction
Step 1: Create a SQL
Server consolidation methodology
Step 2: Analyze
candidate databases, servers and more
Step 3: Test your
consolidation
Step 4: Deploy
consolidated SQL Servers
Step 5: Monitor and
stabilize consolidated SQL Servers
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: |
Hilary Cotter Hilary Cotter has been involved in IT for more than 20 years a Web and database consultant. Microsoft first awarded Cotter the Microsoft SQL Server MVP award in 2001. Cotter received his bachelor 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 the author of a book on SQL Server transactional replication and currently working on books on merge replication and Microsoft search technologies. Copyright 2006 TechTarget |
This was first published in June 2006
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