Networking (RSS)

SQL Server - TCP/IP Ports

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Personally I think networks are a black art, I think there are probably less network admins that there are DBAs in the world. As for diagnostics and tools for network configuration, as a SQL Server person I feel I now know what its like configuring and running Oracle.

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Ping and Tracert explained for dummies

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I recently looked into how ping and tracert worked only know that they use something called ICMP. Its fairly straight forward (well the basics) so thought I would provide a dummies explanation so don't use this a a foundation of a PHD on ICMP.

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