Major Cloud Outage impacts Google Compute Engine – Were you prepared?
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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Clustering for Mere Mortals
New Azure “SQL Server settings” blade in the Azure Portal
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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Microsoft Build 2019 Announcements and Sessions on Demand
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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Storage Considerations for Running SQL Server in Azure
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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STEP-BY-STEP: HOW TO CONFIGURE A SQL SERVER 2008 R2 FAILOVER CLUSTER INSTANCE ON WINDOWS SERVER 2008 R2 IN AZURE
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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Achieving SQL Server HA/DR with a mix of Always On Availability Groups and SANless SQL Server Failover Cluster Instances
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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Configure SQL Server Failover Cluster Instance on Azure Virtual Machines with MSDTC #SQL #Azure #MSDTC
If you have been following my blog, you probably know that I write a lot of step-by-step guides for building...
2019-02-15
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Step-by-Step: How to configure a SQL Server 2008 R2 Failover Cluster Instance in Azure
Introduction
If you are reading this article you probably are still using SQL Server 2008/2008 R2 and want to take advantage...
2019-02-04
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TICK TOCK…6 MONTHS UNTIL SQL SERVER 2008/2008 R2 SUPPORT EXPIRES UNLESS YOU TAKE ACTION
If you are still running SQL Server 2008/2008 R2 you probably have heard by now that as of July 9,...
2019-01-09
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How to Cluster MaxDB on Windows in the Cloud #Azure #AWS #GCP #SAP
Recently I have had a number of customers looking for a high availability solution for MaxDB on Windows in the...
2018-12-28
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Blogs
Programmatic Tool Calling with the Claude SDK
Programmatic Tool Calling with the Claude SDK Every morning somebody on the team runs the...
A New Word: Mauerbauertraurigkeit
By Steve Jones
mauerbauertraurigkeit – n. inexplicable urge to push people away, even close friends whose company...
Methodology for dealing with bad data in production
By Brian Kelley
Pinal Dave wrote up his methodology for what to do when you discover bad...
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Why SQL Server Database Attach fails and how to repair it
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Fixing P1 Queries
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Question of the Day
BIT_COUNT() IV
In SQL Server 2025, I run this code:
select bit_count('A')
What is returned? See possible answers