Ryan Adams

Ryan Adams is a Senior Premier Field Engineer for Microsoft. He works directly with customers to help them realize their business potential and accelerate their digital transformation on premises and in the cloud.

Previously, Ryan was a Microsoft Data Platform MVP and spent 19 years working for a fortune 100 company. His passion is the SQL Server Engine, High Availability, and Disaster Recovery. He also served on the Board of Directors for the North Texas SQL Server User Group, was President of the PASS Performance Virtual Chapter, was a PASS Regional Mentor, and served as a Director for the PASS organization.

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Build a SQL Cluster Lab Part 3

You are going to create a multi-subnet Availability Group in Part 3 of our series on how to build a SQL Cluster Lab. First you give the Cluster Name...

2019-11-18 (first published: )

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Build a SQL Cluster Lab Part 1

This article is Part 1 in a series of articles showing how to build a SQL Cluster Lab. It covers building a Windows Cluster in Hyper-V that supports both...

2019-11-06 (first published: )

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Visualising SQL Server in Kubernetes

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The other day I came across an interesting repo on github, KubeDiagrams. What this...

Picking a Starting Table in Test Data Manager

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I wrote about getting the Redgate Test Data Manager set up in 10 minutes...

SQL Server Migration Using a Distributed Availability Group

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SQL Server migrations are a headache, ask anyone who’s been through the pain of...

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Introduction to PostgreSQL for the data professional

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what happens to ssis and ssrs whenb we migrate to sql saas

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Hi we know (or believe)  ssas saas gets stood up separately when a company...

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Question of the Day

CHOOSing an Alias

I have this code:

SELECT CHOOSE (MONTH (saledate), 'Winter', 'Winter', 'Spring', 'Spring', 'Spring', 'Summer', 'Summer', 'Summer', 'Autumn', 'Autumn', 'Autumn', 'Autumn') AS x
FROM ProductSales;
What is a good name for the column alias?

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