Damian is Microsoft MVP and Certified Trainer with 20 years of experience. Now trying to share the passion and knowledge among others. He runs the blog with his daughter as she is really passionate about technology

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Weekly reading #30

Good morning in November! We were all looking at the Microsoft Ignite in Orlando last week. And it happened! SQL Server 2019 is now generally available – more details...

2019-11-11

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Interview with Bob Ward

This is the eight interview we have done. This time our guest is the one and the only Bob Ward! Bob Ward is a Principal Architect for the Microsoft...

2019-10-30 (first published: )

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Coffee and Granules

Weekly reading #29

The Data Breach Game: The 9 Worst IT Security Practices Joey D’Antoni shows bad practices for security in SQL Server. He summarizes all the most important areas you should...

2019-10-21

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Interview with Joe Sack

This is the seventh interview we have done. This time our guest is Joe Sack! Joe is Principal Program Manager for Azure SQL Database with a focus on query...

2019-10-11 (first published: )

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Coffee

Weekly reading #28

September is over. This was not a good month for us. We had to cancel the conferences planned for September and were not able to write as much as...

2019-10-10

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Coffee and Croissant

Weekly reading #27

September is over. This was not a good month for us. We had to cancel the conferences planned for September and were not able to write as much as...

2019-10-01

19 reads

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Interview with Greg Low

This is the sixth interview we have done. This time our guest is Greg Low!  I bet you know Greg as he is one of the most recognizable person...

2019-09-27 (first published: )

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Weekly reading #26

Good morning! It was a tough weekend as we supposed to be in Goteborg on #SQLSatGothenburg but unfortunatelly the flu hit us hard. The talk was handed over by...

2019-09-17

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Weekly reading #25

It has been a long time since the last weekly reading post. We have been in Shanghai and Bangalore during the time. We attended in #DPS10 in Bangalore –...

2019-09-11

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Question of the Day

Read Only Replica in SQL Server Standard

Our environment runs using SQL Server Standard. We are implementing Availability groups. Our database has been experiencing high read volumes, so I want to let the application read the Synchronized Secondary replica, as I read that HADR does this. Can we implement this?

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