Packet Pushers Podcast released

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I am thrilled to have recently recorded a podcast with our friends over at PacketPushers. The podcast, “How an IT Specialist Chooses Adjacent Competencies“, talks about how adjacencies in...

2020-05-26

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What are you tuning for?

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People want to make things faster. It’s in our nature as IT professionals. What are you tuning for? I’ve been asking that a lot later. I have to sit...

2020-05-22

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PASS Summit 2020 Precon Announcement

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I am thrilled to announce that I have been accepted to deliver a preconference boot camp called ‘Amplify Your Virtual SQL Server Performance‘ at this year’s PASS Summit conference,...

2020-05-18

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Clumio’s Rapid Recovery is amazing for SQL Server

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Clumio’s Rapid Recovery is amazing, and you should know more about it. You might not have heard of Clumio before. Clumio is an upstart SaaS-based backup solution for both...

2020-05-15 (first published: 2020-04-30)

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Upcoming Webinar – SQL Server Business Continuity – May 21

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I’m proud to announce a new webinar that I’ll be presenting at 1pm Eastern on Thursday, May 21st, in conjunction with MSSQLTips and SIOS called “SQL Server Business Continuity...

2020-05-12 (first published: 2020-04-29)

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SQL Server and CPU Hyper-Threading in Virtual Environments

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I recommend leaving the hyper-threaded logical cores enabled in the host BIOS, but not depending on them for performance gains. Hyperthreaded CPU cores, or logical cores, should not be...

2020-04-21 (first published: 2020-04-10)

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Presenting at Global Azure Virtual Day 2020 Omaha

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I’m thrilled to be presenting along side of some industry greats at the upcoming Global Azure Virtual Day on April 25th as part of the Omaha users group. The...

2020-04-16

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SQL Server and VMware Resource Pools

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Resource pools are used to hierarchically partition available CPU and memory resources, and are available for use at the VMware host cluster layer. To better prioritize certain VMs over...

2020-04-06

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DRS Cluster Load Balancing Improvement for SQL Server on VMware

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Dynamic Resource Scheduling (DRS) should be enabled for all VMware host clusters, especially those who run SQL Server. It provides for resource consumption load balancing functionality into a host...

2020-03-25 (first published: 2020-03-16)

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SQL Server on Linux? Start on Azure

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I’ve talked for months now about the ability to run SQL Server on the Linux platform. For those of you interested in exploring the benefits of this platform, you’re...

2020-03-19

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