Documentation: What Can We Document?

          I think I'd like to do a small short series on documentation. I personally love documentation. I honestly think most...

Elected To The 2014 PASS Nominating Committee

The results were posted Friday afternoon, I placed second in the voting with 214 votes from a total of 539...

Last Weeks Top “Reading” Links #87

It’s Monday time for this week’s weekly link round-up.  If you want to catch these links “live” (so exciting), follow...

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...