I’m thrilled to announce that the “Architecting Microsoft SQL Server on VMware vSphere” 8.0 best practices guide has been released! I’m pleased to have been able to contribute to...
2023-02-23
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We all (should) know that running SQL Server in hyperconverged virtual environments, both on-premises and in the cloud, has some interesting trade-offs. The biggest is write latency from the...
2022-12-09 (first published: 2022-11-25)
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I’m proud to be a part of the SQL Server communities globally. I do everything I can do to give back when I can. Too many times, I feel...
2022-12-02 (first published: 2022-11-15)
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You’re invited! I’m thrilled to be co-presenting a session on the top five SQL Server virtual machine performance tuning tips with our friends at Sanity Solutions on July 21st...
2022-07-13 (first published: 2022-06-25)
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We’ve been tracking a weird state with SQL Server virtual machines on VMware and possible warnings on database corruption while VM backups are running, largely centered around (but not...
2022-06-10 (first published: 2022-05-18)
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I am thrilled to have been a part of this year’s Storage Field Day 23 event, held by Gestalt IT during the first week of March. This event is...
2022-05-17
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I am thrilled to have been a part of this year’s Storage Field Day 23 event, held by Gestalt IT during the first week of March. This event is...
2022-05-16
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Have you ever wondered why Windows Server doesn’t show disk performance metrics in Task Manager, but your Windows 10/11 OS does? It’s a really silly difference. Let’s fix that....
2022-05-06 (first published: 2022-04-26)
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I live my life in the field of information technology. Most of the topics that I work with are making databases speedy and more readily available. As such, most...
2022-05-04 (first published: 2022-04-25)
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I am thrilled to have been a part of this year’s Storage Field Day 23 event, held by Gestalt IT during the first week of March. This event is...
2022-05-04
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From June 1, 2023, Microsoft Fabric (preview) capacities are available via the Azure portal....
Always Encrypted was a new encryption feature added to SQL Server with the 2016...
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I added the Profiler module to AZure Data Studio in our ("Microsoft Azure SQL...
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