Ryan Adams

Ryan Adams is a Senior Premier Field Engineer for Microsoft. He works directly with customers to help them realize their business potential and accelerate their digital transformation on premises and in the cloud.

Previously, Ryan was a Microsoft Data Platform MVP and spent 19 years working for a fortune 100 company. His passion is the SQL Server Engine, High Availability, and Disaster Recovery. He also served on the Board of Directors for the North Texas SQL Server User Group, was President of the PASS Performance Virtual Chapter, was a PASS Regional Mentor, and served as a Director for the PASS organization.

HA and DR Precon in Baton Rouge

by Ryan Adams

Ryan Adams

I’ll be doing a precon for SQLSaturday #324 in Baton Rouge Louisiana on August 1st, 2014 titled “A Day of...

2014-06-30

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Speaking at PASS Summit 2014

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Ryan Adams

I am excited and humbled to be speaking at the PASS Summit for my second year in a row! There...

2014-06-27

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Kerberos Configuration Manager’s Nasty Bug

by Ryan Adams

Ryan Adams

The Kerberos Configuration Manager is a really handy tool that can make configuring Kerberos a much easier task, but it’s...

2014-06-17

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PASS 2014 Nomination Committee

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Ryan Adams

I’m officially on the slate and running for the PASS 2014 Nomination Committee!

Why should you vote for Ryan?
I love the PASS...

2014-06-02

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Cannot Failover Nodes Using TempDB on Local Storage

by Ryan Adams

Ryan Adams

I ran into an interesting issue while installing SQL 2012 SP1 in a failover cluster configuration and utilizing the local...

2014-05-08

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Local TempDB on SQL 2012

by Ryan Adams

Ryan Adams

This post has been sitting in the draft folder for way too long, March of last year to be precise....

2014-03-11

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Reinstall SQL Server Performance Counters

by Ryan Adams

Ryan Adams

I’ve had several instances over the last few months where I had to reinstall the SQL Server Performance Counters. It...

2014-03-04 (first published: 2014-02-25)

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SQL Named Instance – Static Port Overrides with SQL Browser

by Ryan Adams

Ryan Adams

I ran across an issue that I haven’t seen since SQL 2000 and had almost forgotten about. Let’s do a...

2014-03-03

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SSPI Handshake Failed

by Ryan Adams

Ryan Adams

A fellow community member sent me an email saying he was having trouble authenticating with Kerberos. Here is the error...

2014-02-26 (first published: 2014-02-18)

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Configure Kerberos for SQL with Virtual Accounts

by Ryan Adams

Ryan Adams

At a conference recently I had someone ask how they would configure Kerberos for accounts that look like “NT Service\MSSQLServer”...

2014-02-18 (first published: 2014-02-10)

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Blogs

A New Word: Dolorblindness

dolorblindness – n. the frustration that you’ll never be able to understand another person’s...

Claude Code Helps Analyze Test Data Manager Log Files

I had a customer ask about analyzing their Test Data Manager (TDM) usage to...

PowerPoint to HTML with Claude AI

I had an idea for an animated view of a sales tool, and started...

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Forums

Optimism Without Illusion or Why AI Needs Blunt Technologists

Comments posted to this topic are about the item Optimism Without Illusion or Why...

SSIS with VS2022 64/32 issue with Excel files

Hi all, I'm trying to do classic scenario for loading multiple Excel files into...

Case part is sloooooow

Hi So the case statement is slowing this down - but for the life...

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Question of the Day

The String Distance I

In SQL Server 2025, what is returned by this code:

SELECT EDIT_DISTANCE('tim', 'tom')

Assume preview features are enabled.

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