MJ Swart offers free technical editing

A little while back Michael J Swart(B/T) offered to help you become a better writer. This was exciting for me...

Partitioning Basics – Part 1 – Creating Partitions

Partitioned tables can be a quick and efficient way to (amongst other things) archive data. In the next couple of...

Prepping For The NomCom

Sunday I spent an hour going over various notes and thinking about what I’ve seen in the past couple PASS...

SQL Saturday 294 Philadelphia Lessons Learned

Being in Philadelphia this past weekend was fantastic! I got to meet a lot of old friends, spend time with...

SQL Server 2014 – How to Add node to failover cluster ?

Steps for SQL Server 2014 Cluster Installation – Add Node to Failover Cluster:-
1) Lunch SQL Server Installation Center

2) Enter Product Key

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Unplanned Availability Group Failover

Whenever a disaster occurs it will be a stressful scenario regardless of how small or big the disaster is. This gets multiplied...

Bug in SQL Server 2014 SQLPS For Registered Servers/Groups

I recently had an opportunity to write an article for mssqltips.com on managing registered servers under “local server groups”, and...

Building The SQLSaturday Orlando Marketing Plan-Part 17

Didn’t get as much done this week as I’d hoped, but a little luck balanced that out! I do at...

5300 PASS Voters for 2014 Election

I was catching up on reading the minutes of PASS Board meetings and found the following except in paragraph 2...

D-Day, Family, Vets, and Life

Today is the 70th anniversary of D-Day, a day worth remembering and celebrating to be sure. I like that we...