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.

Blog Post

Build a SQL Cluster Lab Part 3

You are going to create a multi-subnet Availability Group in Part 3 of our series on how to build a SQL Cluster Lab. First you give the Cluster Name...

2019-11-18 (first published: )

580 reads

Blog Post

Build a SQL Cluster Lab Part 1

This article is Part 1 in a series of articles showing how to build a SQL Cluster Lab. It covers building a Windows Cluster in Hyper-V that supports both...

2019-11-06 (first published: )

693 reads

Blogs

Automated SQL Server Benchmarking with HammerDB and Docker: A Complete Testing Framework

By

I’m excited to announce the release of a new open-source project that fully automates...

T-SQL Snapshot Backups on Availability Group Secondary Replicas

By

One of my favourite features of SQL Server 2022 was the T-SQL Snapshot Backups....

The Book of Redgate: Hours

By

I have said and written this many times: Redgate Software is the type of...

Read the latest Blogs

Forums

AI Experience Gap that we keep talking about

By Pat Wright

Comments posted to this topic are about the item AI Experience Gap that we...

Squared Values

By Steve Jones - SSC Editor

Comments posted to this topic are about the item Squared Values

I Don't Want To Do XX

By Steve Jones - SSC Editor

Comments posted to this topic are about the item I Don't Want To Do...

Visit the forum

Question of the Day

Squared Values

What happens when I run this code in SQL Server 2022?

SELECT SQUARE('12')

See possible answers