HA and DR Precon in Baton Rouge
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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Ryan Adams
Speaking at PASS Summit 2014
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Scooby Dooing Episode 9: The Case of the Artificially Intelligent Villain
Welcome back, my fellow sleuths, to my mystery-inspired blog series! I’m having a ton...
The Book of Redgate: Don’t be an a**hole
By Steve Jones
This was one of the original values: The facing page has this text: No...
Beyond Pipelines: How Fabric Reinvents Data Movement for the Modern Enterprise
By Chris Yates
For decades, enterprises have thought about data like plumbers think about water: you build...
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Azure SQL Database MAXDOP
When Azure SQL Database was originally released, the MAXDOP was set to 0 for each new database. In Oct 2025, what is the default value for Azure SQL databases?
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