When deploying business critical applications in the cloud you want to make sure they are highly available. The good news is that if you plan properly, you can achieve...
2020-08-05 (first published: 2020-07-24)
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I recently helped someone build an iSCSI target server cluster in Azure and realized that I never wrote a step-by-step guide for that particular configuration. So to remedy that,...
2020-06-03 (first published: 2020-05-20)
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If you want to use ASR to replicate SQL Server 2008 R2 standalone or clustered instances, you will need to update the SQL Writer to 2012 or later. You...
2019-06-18
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I just noticed today that there is a new blade in the Azure portal when creating a new SQL Server virtual machine. I’ve been looking for an announcement regarding...
2019-06-11 (first published: 2019-05-24)
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Google first reported an “Issue” on Jun 2, 2019 at 12:25 PDT. As is now common in any type of disaster, reports of this outage first appeared on social...
2019-06-03
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If you are deploying SQL Server in Azure, or any Cloud platform for that matter, instead of just provisioning storage like you did for your on-premises deployments for many...
2019-05-14 (first published: 2019-05-02)
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If you are like me and were unable to get away from the office to attend Microsoft Build 2019 you will be glad to know that Microsoft has published...
2019-05-10
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Intro On July 9, 2019, support for SQL Server 2008 and 2008 R2 will end. That means the end of regular security updates. However, if you move those SQL...
2019-05-02 (first published: 2019-04-19)
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Introduction
The topic of mixing SQL Server Failover Cluster Instances (FCI) with Always On Availability Groups (AG) is pretty well documented....
2019-03-13
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If you have been following my blog, you probably know that I write a lot of step-by-step guides for building...
2019-02-15
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I have held various certifications through my DBA career, from CompTIA A+ certification back...
I first starting presenting on mental health last December in Charlotte, NC on mental...
I first starting presenting on mental health last December in Charlotte, NC on mental...
I've been querying sys.dm_db_index_usage_stats on the nodes of an availability group, and I've noticed...
Here's a question that feels like I'm asking if a tree falls in the...
I'm currently looking to design some auditing on my SQL application and am wondering...
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