Where Is My Primary Replica Again?

We have many clients with multi-node Availability Groups - that is, AGs with more than two replicas.  One of the problems...

Goodness-of-Fit Testing with SQL Server Part 7.3: The Anderson-Darling Test

By Steve Bolton
…………As mentioned in previous installments of this series of amateur self-tutorials, goodness-of-fit tests can be differentiated in many...

How to Convince the Boss to Send You to PASS Summit

August two years ago I originally posted, Make the PASS Summit Work for Your Employer. After conversations at several SQL...

Monday Morning SQL Break – May 2, 2016

Gotta love Mondays.  At least the weather here in Minnesota is clearing up, the last two weeks have been cold...

PowerSehll : How to suppress the table heading and remove the blank space from a text file

There are a multiple ways to suppress and remove the first line from text file. The first scenario would be writing...

Remove files from a filegroup

You have a database with one or more filegroups, and one or more of those filegroups has multiple files. You’ve...

Setting up powershell remote sessions

Hey guys, differing from usual this is a quick post on setting up powershell remote sessions. I know you can...

SQL 2016 - The Time Has Come!

Microsoft dropped it on us this morning:

Get ready, SQL Server 2016 coming on June 1st
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I read the article and was...

SQL Server 2016 available June 1st!

Woo hoo!  Microsoft has announced that SQL Server 2016 will be generally available on June 1st.  On that date all four...

SQL Server 2005 Modernization Checklist

As Bala Narasimhan from PernixData and I discussed in a webinar last week, SQL Server 2005 hit end of it’s...