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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Modifying a Trigger to Capture More Info: #SQLNewBlogger

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SQL Server Agent Jobs: Set It and Forget It?

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From SQL Server to PostgreSQL: A Story of 5 Key SQL Differences

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Transitioning AlwaysOn Availability Group to Synchronous Commit Mode

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Hello, I have a SQL Server with an AlwaysOn configuration consisting of three replicas...

CDC & Azure Managed Instances - Performance degredation

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Anyone got any good advice for performance tuning CDC on a Managed Instance? We...

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Question of the Day

The Trigger Updated Column(s)

In a trigger, I can use UPDATE() or UPDATED_COLUMNS() to determine which columns were changed. For these functions, which one accepts a column name as a parameter?

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