SQL Server 2022 is GA!
The big announcement at the PASS Data Community Summit 2022 was that SQL Server 2022 is now generally available. See the official announcement. My top 10 list of new...
2022-11-29
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Blog Posts
Daily Coping 28 Nov 2022
Today’s coping tip is to broaden your perspective: read a different source of media. I’m off to the UK today. I tend to read books a lot when I...
2022-11-28
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Database Mirroring login attempt failed with error: ‘Connection handshake failed. An OS call failed: (80090302) 0x80090302(The function requested is not supported).
Here’s a quick one for today and is an issue that had me stumped for a while. It’s not one that I’d come across before and there isn’t really...
2022-11-28 (first published: 2022-11-16)
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How to cluster SAP ASCS/SCS with SIOS DataKeeper on VMware ESXi Servers
This article describes the steps you take to prepare the VMware infrastructure for installing and configuring a high-availability SAP ASCS/SCS instance on a Windows failover cluster by using SIOS...
2022-11-28
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How to Install SQL Server 2022
SQL Server 2022 has been released! In this blog post, I’ll walk you through how you can install the latest version of SQL Server on your machine. I’ll be...
2022-11-28 (first published: 2022-11-17)
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Tell My Story of Public Speaking
This month the fine folks behind New Stars of Data and the DataGrillen Newcomer Track bring us the Tell Your Story blog party. Where we
The post Tell My Story...
2022-11-28
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The Last Trip of 2022
It’s the last trip for me today. I head to the UK for a few work things and then my wife is coming over to take a quick vacation...
2022-11-28
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Daily Coping 25 Nov 2022
Today’s coping tip is to connect with someone from a different generation. This tip makes me feel old. When I see “different generation” I used to think of someone...
2022-11-25
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PASS Summit 2022 - Day 1 In Pictures
The first "full" day of PASS 2022 kicked off with a bang when Rohan Kumar (@RohanKData) stepped out on the keynote stage to announce SQL Server 2022 was GA...
2022-11-25 (first published: 2022-11-17)
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Select All in a Power BI Slicer–#SQLNewBlogger
One of the things I’ve been working on this year is a Power BI report for the kids I coaco in volleyball. As a part of this, I want...
2022-11-25 (first published: 2022-11-09)
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Blogs
Shifting Mindsets: Why FinOps is Essential for Cloud Efficiency
By HeyMo0sh
As a DevOps practitioner, I’ve always focused on performance, scalability, and automation. But as...
March 2026 SQL Server Security Updates
By Brian Kelley
On Patch Tuesday, in addition to OS and Office security patches, Microsoft also released...
How Fabric Mirroring Transformed with SQL Server 2025
When mirroring was first released for Azure SQL Database, it used Change Data Capture...
Forums
XACT_ABORT being set to ON by web services
We have two "identical" instances of an ASP.NET web service (or so I have...
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OPENQUERY Flexibility
Which of these are valid OPENQUERY() uses?
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