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I am Dale Hayter, a Microsoft and VMware certified Technical Consultant.

My blog has been built up over the years from my experience of working on an IT helpdesk and also from being out on-site.

March 3, 2015

Shrink VMware Virtual Center Appliance Database

I had an incident this week where a sites VMware Virtual Center Appliance database reached 16GB in size. When it got to this size the…

June 12, 2014

I’ve come across a lot of sites where VMware has been deployed using a SQL Express Database. This is normally fine for a handful of…

February 23, 2014

When trying to do a backup of a SQL Database in SQL Server Management Studio you might get the error :- Backup failed for Server…

January 21, 2014

There are loads of situations where you need to use a SQL database for something. In some cases a SQL Express database will do the…

May 29, 2013

If you move a mailbox to a new database or delete a user the original mailbox is put into a soft deleted state. It will…