Letter To My Father
We spread my Fathers ashes over the past weekend. It was one of the hardest things...
2019-09-06 (first published: 2019-08-22)
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Some Time Away
Greetings everybody! It has been a while since I posted anything here. I figured I...
2019-04-26 (first published: 2019-04-15)
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Veterans At PASS Summit ’18
Hello all!
This year at PASS Summit, I will be distributing the below ribbons once again to ANY and ALL Service...
2018-10-10
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Azure Runbook Configuration
Hello everybody! Greetings from the very warm state of Texas! One of the most popular questions I get when talking...
2018-08-23 (first published: 2018-08-02)
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Webinars, and Azure, and SQL… OH MY!
Hello everybody! Thank you once again for stopping by and reading. April has been pretty busy with presentations, and I...
2018-04-25
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Getting the Azure DTU Calculator to work on a 2008R2 OS w/ a 2008R2 SQL Server Instance
Hello everyone! I recently had to do an analysis of a client’s database workload using the Azure DTU Calculator(DTU Calculator)...
2018-04-24
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Migrating to Azure DBaaS – A Client’s Steps Taken to the Cloud – Part 2
Hello everybody! Thanks for stopping by again. In Part 1 of this series, I gave the background of the project, and...
2018-04-02
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Migrating to Azure DBaaS – A Client’s Steps Taken to the Cloud – Part 1
Hello everybody!
I have been working with one of my favorite clients lately on migrating their SQL databases to a DBaaS...
2018-02-10
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Upcoming SQLSaturdays
I have the priveledge of speaking at two SQLSaturday events coming up in the near future. This is the first...
2018-01-02
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Creating and Using Failover Groups in Azure DBaaS – Part 2
Connecting to Failover Group
So in Part 1 of this series, we created and configured our Failover Group. Well, now that...
2017-12-26
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Blogs
Automated SQL Server Benchmarking with HammerDB and Docker: A Complete Testing Framework
I’m excited to announce the release of a new open-source project that fully automates...
Automated SQL Server Benchmarking with HammerDB and Docker: A Complete Testing Framework
I’m excited to announce the release of a new open-source project that fully automates...
Advice I Like: Praise
By Steve Jones
Don’t reserve your kindest praise for a person until their eulogy. Tell them while...
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Question of the Day
Change Tracking Data Retention Options
If I am running this code:
ALTER DATABASE AdventureWorks2017 SET CHANGE_TRACKING = ON (CHANGE_RETENTION=4 xxx);What are the possible choices for xxx? See possible answers