Intro If you are considering deploying your own Microsoft SQL Server instances in AWS EC2 you have some decisions to make regarding the resiliency of the solution. Sure, AWS...
2021-01-14 (first published: 2021-01-08)
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When deploying business critical applications in the cloud you want to make sure they are highly available. The good news is that if you plan properly, you can achieve...
2020-08-05 (first published: 2020-07-24)
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I recently helped someone build an iSCSI target server cluster in Azure and realized that I never wrote a step-by-step guide for that particular configuration. So to remedy that,...
2020-06-03 (first published: 2020-05-20)
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If you want to use ASR to replicate SQL Server 2008 R2 standalone or clustered instances, you will need to update the SQL Writer to 2012 or later. You...
2019-06-18
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Google first reported an “Issue” on Jun 2, 2019 at 12:25 PDT. As is now common in any type of disaster, reports of this outage first appeared on social...
2019-06-03
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I just noticed today that there is a new blade in the Azure portal when creating a new SQL Server virtual machine. I’ve been looking for an announcement regarding...
2019-06-11 (first published: 2019-05-24)
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If you are like me and were unable to get away from the office to attend Microsoft Build 2019 you will be glad to know that Microsoft has published...
2019-05-10
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If you are deploying SQL Server in Azure, or any Cloud platform for that matter, instead of just provisioning storage like you did for your on-premises deployments for many...
2019-05-14 (first published: 2019-05-02)
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Intro On July 9, 2019, support for SQL Server 2008 and 2008 R2 will end. That means the end of regular security updates. However, if you move those SQL...
2019-05-02 (first published: 2019-04-19)
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Introduction
The topic of mixing SQL Server Failover Cluster Instances (FCI) with Always On Availability Groups (AG) is pretty well documented....
2019-03-13
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If you’re reading this, there’s a good chance you’re straight, white, male, and English-speaking....
By Steve Jones
I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to...
By Brian Kelley
Through high school and college, I carried deep wounds due to what was going...
Hi all, I have a table where I have 3 indexes (User Table): id_user...
I need to configure the below alerts manually for multiple servers Backup failure, disk...
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