Disasters big and small happen, and as data professionals, you should be prepared for the worst! I’m thrilled to announce that we’re launching the Microsoft Data Platform Continuity Virtual...
2021-06-15
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With the rise of Kubernetes and other completely cloud-based deployments, on-premises data centers seem to be on the way out to make way for the scalability and dynamism of...
2021-06-08
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I’m thrilled to have recently recorded a podcast with Nick Korte from Nerd Journey. He recently recorded a different podcast that talks about the journey from being an IT...
2021-05-28 (first published: 2021-05-18)
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This past week I had a great Client ask an even greater question, and it got me thinking. The question is straightforward (albeit nerdy, which I love). “We’ve enabled...
2021-05-19 (first published: 2021-05-10)
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April 21 to 23 saw a new milestone for me. I was a new delegate for the 23rd Tech Field Day! It’s an absolute honor and thrill to be...
2021-05-17
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I just found out that VMware has updated their in-guest time synchronization with the 7.0 Update 1 release. Previously, we had to manually disable some of the advanced time...
2021-04-08 (first published: 2021-04-01)
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I hope you’re all enjoying the latest rev of the Microsoft Ignite conference as much as I am. I was going through the content catalog for this year’s conference...
2021-03-08 (first published: 2021-03-02)
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After doing some digging today with a Client, we hit a roadblock on something that I need to share with using the NVMe virtual disk controller on the VMware...
2021-03-02 (first published: 2021-02-23)
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If you have a SQL Server Availability Group (AG) and the VMs are being replicated to a disaster recovery site (cloud or on-prem), chances are the networking topology is...
2021-02-15 (first published: 2021-02-08)
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I am thrilled to announce the launch of a new education initiative called SQLibrium. For years, I’ve traveled the world educating technical audiences on deep-dive topics around how data and...
2021-02-10 (first published: 2021-02-02)
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By Arun Sirpal
Just a really quick FYI for the readers. If you are using Managed Instances...
It has been some time since I last wrote about Azure SQL Database. Although...
By Steve Jones
I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to...
Do I still need to run sp_updatestats if I execute DBCC DBREINDEX(tablename) for tables...
Hello. I am looking into setting up a Distributed Availability Group between 2 availability...
Hi guys Setting up a new SQL Server on Azure (Managed Instance). I have...
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