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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Precon in Columbus OH

I’ll be doing a precon for SQLSaturday #421 in Columbus Ohio on July 10th, 2015 titled “Planning a High Availability and Disaster...

2015-06-23

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T-SQL Tuesday 188 - Growing the Younger Data Community and Speakers

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T-SQL Tuesday is a monthly blog party hosted by a different community member each...

Azure Cloud Chronicles with Microsoft MVPs YouTube Channel

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In my YouTube subscriptions feed, a new video for the Azure Cloud Chronicles with...

T-SQL Tuesday #188: Growing the Community

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This month we have a great T-SQL Tuesday, hosted by John Sterrett. He has...

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Has the PK been used --

You're analyzing a query execution plan in SQL Server to determine whether the query optimizer chose to use a primary key index. Which Dynamic Management View (DMV) would you use to verify the usage of the primary key in the plan?

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