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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Introduction
If you are reading this article you probably are still using SQL Server 2008/2008 R2 and want to take advantage...
2019-02-04
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If you are still running SQL Server 2008/2008 R2 you probably have heard by now that as of July 9,...
2019-01-09
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By DesertDBA
FUN FACT: I have been a Microsoft Certified Professional for SQL Server for over...
By James-Serra
As a followup to my blog post Azure Data Lake Store Gen2 is GA,...
As always, the scripts in this post can also be found on our Git...
RegEx is always tough to digest (without referring to document), so it would be...
Hi all, I have a question since I'm new to SQL: I have a...
Hi, In one of our customers the database mirroring was already configured. After long...
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