Managed Service Account Naming Convention
A while back I had to help a customer update their naming standard for their Managed Service Accounts, so I thought I would share some of those details. The...
2022-01-18
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Everyday SQL
Get Certificate Details for SQL Encryption In-Transit Using PowerShell
In my opinion, all customers should be encrypting connections to their SQL Servers to secure data in-transit, but that’s a discussion for another day. Today, I wanted to discuss...
2022-01-04
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Finding the NTFS Allocation Unit Size for Mount Points
The 64Kb Allocation Unit size is one of the easiest SQL Server best practice items to complete during your new builds, but from time to time, I still see...
2021-12-07
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PASS is Gone
On January 15, 2021, PASS will cease to exist. https://www.pass.org/PASS-Blog/ArticleID/888/ArtMID/99177/preview/true I cannot tell you how much this disappoints me. PASS has been around for my entire database career, and...
2020-12-29
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Management Studio Find & Replace Using Regular Expressions
In my last Management Studio tip, I demonstrated how you can drag and drop column names to a query window. The only part I do not like about that...
2020-07-28
12 reads
Management Studio Drag & Drop Column Names
Continuing on my recent trend of Management Studio tips, here is another that could save you a few minutes. In today’s scenario, we need to write a select statement...
2020-07-07
11 reads
SQL Server Audit Recipe – xp_cmdshell
This article assumes you already have a basic understanding of SQL Server Audit, but if not, use this link to catch...
2018-07-17
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SQL Server Morning Health Checks
Every now and again as a Microsoft PFE, you get a chance to make a big difference for a customer....
2018-01-08 (first published: 2018-01-02)
2,649 reads
Create a Whitelist for SQL Server - UPDATED!!!
A while back, I posted an article about creating a WhiteList for access to SQL Server. Since then I have...
2017-05-16
4,495 reads
Dear McAfee, Why are you destroying my buffer pool?
For the past few months, one my customers had been trying to diagnose an issue with SQL Server paging out...
2017-05-02
1,285 reads
Blogs
Accelerating Database Modernization Through DevOps & Cloud Integration
By Chris Yates
In today’s enterprise landscape, agility and reliability go hand-in-hand. As organizations modernize legacy infrastructure...
Speaking at the PASS Data Community Summit
By Steve Jones
I’m honored to be speaking at the PASS Data Community Summit in Seattle this...
Article: SQL Server Sample Databases
By Brian Kelley
herefore, from Northwind and pubs to WideWorldImporters, I've compiled where to get those databases...
Forums
How a Legacy Logic Choked SQL Server in a 30-Year-Old Factory
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Migrate from Linux to Windows with Availability Groups
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We Gave Memory-Optimized Tables a Hash Lookup — Then Tried Pattern Matching Instead
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Question of the Day
Always On AG Latency for Read-Only Workload After Failover?
You're responsible for managing a SQL Server environment using Always On Availability Groups across two data centers. During a recent planned failover to the secondary replica, you noticed increased application latency and errors related to read-only routing. Upon investigation, you discover that read-only routing continues pointing to the former primary, now a secondary, for a period of time after the failover.
Which of the following best explains this behavior and how to resolve it?