The Voice of the DBA - WMV: Locking Your Disk

With the tremendous growth in disk sizes and the trend towards more and more people using laptops, someone sent me a note about protecting that data that got me thinking. The SQL Server space has grown tremendously, and not just up. We have SQL Server Express and SQL Server Compact Edition, both of which are designed to run on smaller devices, with (supposedly) smaller data sets. However my phone has more storage than quite a few hard drives I've owned in my life and my new laptop rivals the storage in my 3 year old desktop. It seems that often that administrators don't think about the data that gets moved off their servers and with new replication and ETL technologies, a significant amount of data might be duplicated on other instances of SQL Server away from your primary database. Read the rest of Locking Your Disk at SQLServerCentral.com

Mevio | February 28, 2008

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