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
A New Word: on tenderhooks
By Steve Jones
on tenderhooks – adj. feeling the primal satisfaction of being needed by someone, which...
Ramblings about data communities and your contributions, no excuses
By DataOnWheels
I have been active in the data community throughout my career. I have met...
SQL Server Journey till 2025 (brief)
By Vinay Thakur
Quick Summary for Microsoft SQL Server till 2025, I am fortunate to be part...
Forums
how do i map the "current" object entry in for each to one variable
hi, in an ssis for each loop over an object variable called MyListVariable, i...
Simulating Mercury’s Orbital Motion Using Pure T-SQL (NASA 2025 Dataset)
SQL Server is typically viewed as a transactional or analytical database engine. However, it...
Azure SQL Database | CREATE EVENT SESSION [Blocking_Capture] ON DATABASE
Hello, Is there a way in Azure SQL Database to change the 'Blocking Process...
Question of the Day
String Similarity I
On SQL Server 2025, when I run this, what is returned?
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