Adding a new shared disk to Windows Server failover Cluster is not a complex process but special care must be taken when you want to use the new disk for any existing SQL Instance. In this article, we will show you all the required steps to add the disk to WSFC and then to properly assign it to an existing SQL role in the WSFC.
2024-09-16
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Learn how to create a backup of an AWS RDS for SQL Server database and download the backup file to use on another SQL Server instance.
2024-09-16
Connect, share and learn with the global data community in Seattle this November. Whether you're a DBA, Developer, Architect, Engineer or you're just getting started in your data career, there's a huge range of content for you to choose from (over 150 sessions and counting across 5 different tracks). Speakers this year include Steve Jones, Grant Fritchey, Ryan Booz, Bob Ward, Deepthi Goguri and Jennifer Stirrup. Check out the full program and register before September 18 to secure your ticket at the standard price.
2024-09-16 (first published: 2024-08-19)
A list of articles in my series on Azure Data Studio along with a few other links.
2024-09-13 (first published: 2024-01-10)
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Three new speakers will be taking to the stage at this year's PASS Data Community Summit for the New Stars of Data Track. Sessions will be delivered by Haripriya Naidu, Vitalija Bartusevičiūtė, and Jarid McKenzie!
2024-09-13
In this article, I will cover a bit about the LIKE operator, including how it works, and a bit of history about why it is like it is. After establishing this, I will discuss a bit about how you can (and should) use the LIKE operator in your CHECK constraints to strengthen your data integrity.
2024-09-13
This next article examines the impact of transaction sizes on the performance of our Delta Parquet tables.
2024-09-11
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This article looks at how you can use event sourcing to maintain persistent and asynchronous communication between microservices.
2024-09-11
2024-09-09
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Like XML, JSON is an open standard storage format for data, metadata, parameters, or other unstructured or semi-structured data. Because of its heavy usage in applications today, it inevitably will make its way into databases where it will need to be stored, compressed, modified, searched, and retrieved.
2024-09-09
By James Serra
An architecture scenario Imagine separate Sales, Finance, Shared Data, and Executive Analytics workspaces. Sales...
Security on your SQL Server is important. That doesn’t need any explaining. But where...
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I add this parameter to SQL Server 2025 in the Configuration Manager:
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