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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Read-Scale Availability Group Setup

What is a Read-Scale Availability Group? A Read-Scale Availability Group is a Clusterless Availability Group.  It’s sole purpose and design is to scale out a read workload.  More importantly...

2018-07-05

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Read-Scale Availability Group Setup

What is a Read-Scale Availability Group? A Read-Scale Availability Group is a Clusterless Availability Group.  It’s sole purpose and design is to scale out a […]
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2018-07-05

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A Common Split

What happens when I run this code: 

DECLARE @s VARCHAR(1000) = 'apple, pear, peach'
SELECT *
FROM STRING_SPLIT(@s, ', ')

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