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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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....

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...

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...

SSPI Handshake Failed

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

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”...