I’m Speaking!
After a long hiatus of not blogging, I’m trying to get back into writing. So, to kick it off first thing in 2024, I’m speaking! I’m honored to have been...
2024-01-19
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John
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Deploying VMWare into Azure
Last Updated on January 18, 2024 by John Morehouse Did you know that you can deploy native VMWare virtual machines into Azure? Yeah, I didn’t either until earlier this...
2023-12-29
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Accounting for Virtualization Head Room
In this post, I discuss about not forgetting to allow for additional head room when planning out new hardware, especially for HA/DR needs.
The post Accounting for Virtualization Head Room...
2023-12-07
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Hot Adding CPU to SQL Server
Last Updated on January 24, 2023 by John Morehouse © 2022 – 2023, John Morehouse. All rights reserved.
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2022-12-09
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Preventing Noisy VM Neighbors for SQL
Last Updated on January 24, 2023 by John Morehouse In today’s modern world, virtualization is often used to help mitigate cost as well as to provide flexibility in scaling...
2022-07-08
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Running SQL Server on Synology
Last Updated on January 23, 2023 by John Morehouse Synology has a wide range of capabilities but sometimes it still falls short. In a previous post, I mentioned moving...
2022-05-06
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Secure Travel
Last Updated on March 4, 2022 by John Morehouse Update: This post was originally published on March 8th, 2019 and a lot of things have changed over the last...
2022-03-04
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Understanding Volumes vs Storage Pools
In hindsight, I should have done this differently. In a previous post I discussed how I carved up 18TB of storage into various storage pools. Now that I have...
2022-03-02 (first published: 2022-02-18)
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Speaking at SQL Bits 2022
A look at the sessions I'll be presenting at SQL Bits 2022 in London this year. Excited to return to a great conference and hope to see you...
2022-02-11
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Understanding VMWare Components
Last Updated on January 9, 2022 by John Morehouse Recently I was looking to install VMWare components in my local network of things so that I could gain additional...
2021-12-10
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Blogs
Keeping Redshift System Table History Past 7 Days with S3 Tables
Redshift keeps its SYS_* monitoring views for seven days in cluster, which is fine...
Updating the Data API Builder
By Steve Jones
I was updating my session for the Data API Builder (DAB) recently, mostly to...
T-SQL Tuesday #202 Invitation: That One SQL Server Outage You’ll Never Forget
I am excited to host T-SQL Tuesday for the first time. I want to...
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Practical Ways to Approach SQL Server Problems and Case Studies
Working with SQL Server can involve more than just writing queries. Understanding database design,...
Measuring Productivity
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Importing Excel files into SQL Server using DuckDB and Python
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Question of the Day
Tracking All the Queries
I have 3 instances of a brand new long running query that are executing on a SQL Server 2025 instance. Query store is enabled. One of the queries is killed by the administrator, one is cancelled by the user. The other runs to completion. How many rows are in Query Store for this query?
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