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Welcome to the February newsletter from Australia's leading SQL Server Consultants, Trainers and Business Intelligence specialists
SQL Server 2012 will be launched on the 7th of March 2012 and will be marked by a Virtual Launch Event.
The launch of SQL Server 2012 enables breakthrough insights across the organization with the ability to quickly build solutions and extend data across on-premises and public cloud backed by mission critical confidence. With this launch, there will also be licensing changes to reflect the evolution of the database industry along with new hardware deployment practices.
To help you understand these licensing changes and what they mean for your organisation WARDY IT Solutions has designed a licensing review specifically for SQL Server 2012.
If you are looking to get up to speed with this next release of SQL Server, SQL Server 2012 then look no further than WARDY IT Solutions. WARDY IT Solutions is a launch partner for SQL Server 2012. WARDY IT Solutions developed and delivered the first SQL Server 2012 training in Australia and just launched a brand new AlwaysOn workshop that focuses on running SQL Server 2012 AlwaysOn on Windows Server core.
Last chance for Exclusive Kalen Delaney Training Kalen Delaney will be in Australia during March for an exclusive 5 Day SQL Server Internals & Query Tuning workshop.
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Peter Ward
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AlwaysOn HA and DR Design Patterns SQL Server 2012 AlwaysOn provides flexible design choices for selecting an appropriate high availability and disaster recovery solution for your application. SQLCAT have released an article that provides an overview of the different design patterns that are available. This article can be found here. |
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SQL Server 2012 - Potential Game Changer Microsoft SQL Server 2012 has many feature enhancements as well as a new software licensing and pricing approach. With SQL Server 2012, Microsoft is offering a new set of streamlined editions that are well aligned with database and business intelligence (BI) needs and an industry-standard pricing approach based on cores. As a result of these enhancements IDC sees Microsoft SQL Server 2012 as a game changer. You can read more about this in a recent IDC white paper here. |
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Virtual DBA on the Windows Phone As part of WARDY IT Solutions Virtual DBA solution we provide each customer with a complimentary portal that provides a real-time view of their entire SQL Server topology.
With the release of the Windows Phone we saw an opportunity to extend the Virtual DBA Portal to allow customers to view the status of their servers beyond the limits of their desktops. You can take a look at the Virtual DBA Portal on the Windows Phone Marketplace. |
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WARDY IT Solutions has been developing training for SQL Server 2012 over the past few months and we are proud of the fact that we have the first SQL Server 2012 training in Australia. We have developed the SQL Server 2012 First look course as well as the just released SQL Server 2012 AlwaysOn Workshop. For more details on all the WARDY IT Solutions SQL Server training refer to here. |
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PASS SQLSaturday’s are free 1-day training events for SQL Server professionals that focus on local speakers, providing a variety of high-quality technical sessions. For the first time SQLSaturtuday will be held downunder in the following cities Brisbane, Wellington, Canberra, Sydney, Adelaide and Perth. The first event kicks off in Brisbane on the 12th of April. For more information and to register for these free events refer to here. |
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Lock in the Price of your SQL Server Purchase SQL Server 2012 will come in just three editions to better match how you use SQL Server across workloads. To avoid any price impact after the launch of SQL Server 2012, purchase SQL Server 2008 R2 with Software Assurance now, or renew your existing Software Assurance plan. By doing so, you will lock in the price of your SQL Server purchase and gain the usage rights to SQL Server 2012! To learn more about the latest licensing and price changes refer to here or contact WARDY IT Solutions today. |
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Does your SQL Server environment need a Healthcheck? The WARDY IT Solutions SQL Server Healthcheck is designed to review and verify the implementation of common SQL Server Best Practices. Our Database Healthcheck includes all the usage and administration aspects of a SQL Server database, ensuring that your SQL Servers are managed and operated well. Our approach is to analyse the total health of your SQL Server environment and highlight areas of concern, providing recommendations to improve the health and performance of your database environment. For more details on our SQL Server Healthcheck refer here. |
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SQL Server on Flash Based Architecture HP and the Microsoft engineering teams have developed a reference architecture for OLTP database workloads with a fully-flash based architecture to achieve significant performance increases, simplified database manageability, and industry leading TCO. To find out more about this architecture refer to here. |
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SQL Server Internals with Kalen Delaney Kalen Delaney will be in Australia to present the exclusive SQL Server Internals workshop for WARDY IT Solutions on the following dates Brisbane: 19-23 March 2012 and Sydney: 26 - 30 March 2012. Seats are strictly limited so don't miss your opportunity to learn from one of the world's leading experts in SQL Server Internals! You can register for this course here. |
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WARDY IT Solutions Virtual DBA service was named one of Australia's 100 most innovative products or services, in one of the largest and most audacious innovation awards of its kind in Australia - the Anthill Magazine 'SMART 100' Index. Virtual DBA is a remote database administration service designed by WARDY IT Solutions to assist organisations with the management of Microsoft SQL Server. Our Virtual DBA service provides a cost effective solution to meet the day-to-day challenges of availability, performance and administration of Microsoft SQL Server databases. To find out more about the benefits of a Virtual DBA refer to here.
Something you may not know is that our Virtual DBA can be utilised for phone and email support. So, if your organisation just needs someone that they can call on for advice then why not use a Virtual DBA? |
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