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.

HA and DR Precon in Baton Rouge

by Ryan Adams

Ryan Adams

I’ll be doing a precon for SQLSaturday #324 in Baton Rouge Louisiana on August 1st, 2014 titled “A Day of...

2014-06-30

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Speaking at PASS Summit 2014

by Ryan Adams

Ryan Adams

I am excited and humbled to be speaking at the PASS Summit for my second year in a row! There...

2014-06-27

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Kerberos Configuration Manager’s Nasty Bug

by Ryan Adams

Ryan Adams

The Kerberos Configuration Manager is a really handy tool that can make configuring Kerberos a much easier task, but it’s...

2014-06-17

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PASS 2014 Nomination Committee

by Ryan Adams

Ryan Adams

I’m officially on the slate and running for the PASS 2014 Nomination Committee!

Why should you vote for Ryan?
I love the PASS...

2014-06-02

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Cannot Failover Nodes Using TempDB on Local Storage

by Ryan Adams

Ryan Adams

I ran into an interesting issue while installing SQL 2012 SP1 in a failover cluster configuration and utilizing the local...

2014-05-08

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Local TempDB on SQL 2012

by Ryan Adams

Ryan Adams

This post has been sitting in the draft folder for way too long, March of last year to be precise....

2014-03-11

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Reinstall SQL Server Performance Counters

by Ryan Adams

Ryan Adams

I’ve had several instances over the last few months where I had to reinstall the SQL Server Performance Counters. It...

2014-03-04 (first published: 2014-02-25)

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SQL Named Instance – Static Port Overrides with SQL Browser

by Ryan Adams

Ryan Adams

I ran across an issue that I haven’t seen since SQL 2000 and had almost forgotten about. Let’s do a...

2014-03-03

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SSPI Handshake Failed

by Ryan Adams

Ryan Adams

A fellow community member sent me an email saying he was having trouble authenticating with Kerberos. Here is the error...

2014-02-26 (first published: 2014-02-18)

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Configure Kerberos for SQL with Virtual Accounts

by Ryan Adams

Ryan Adams

At a conference recently I had someone ask how they would configure Kerberos for accounts that look like “NT Service\MSSQLServer”...

2014-02-18 (first published: 2014-02-10)

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Blogs

Think Twice Before Enabling Fabric’s Inbound Network Protection

By Meagan Longoria

Fabric inbound network protection involves two tenant-level controls: Private Link and Block Public Internet...

Match the Model to the Task, Not the App: An Orchestrator-Worker Pattern in Python

By Eduardo Pivaral

Most apps that call an LLM send every request to the same model. That...

Advice I Like: Responsibility

“The foundation of maturity: Just because it’s not your fault doesn’t mean it’s not...

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Forums

AI Observability Challenges in FinOps as a DBA

Comments posted to this topic are about the item AI Observability Challenges in FinOps...

Migration Challenge: Excessive FULLSCAN Statistics Update Duration Blocking SQL

By abdalah.mehdoini

Hello everyone , I am planning to migrate a database from SQL Server 2014...

SQL Agent Job Automated Change Capture Process

By James Greaves

Comments posted to this topic are about the item SQL Agent Job Automated Change...

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Finding a Database Master Key

Where do I check for the existence of a Database Master Key (DMK) in SQL Server 2025?

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