Adding a VLDB database to an SQL Server Availability Group
Recently, I was tasked with making an 60TB database highly available by adding it to an availability group. The following,...
2015-08-26 (first published: 2015-08-18)
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John Sterrett
Converting identifiers into SQL Server table variables in Management Studio
If I had a nickel for every time someone gave me a list of identifiers and asked me to pull...
2015-04-20 (first published: 2015-04-09)
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Free Video for Accidental DBA’s
Recently, Mike Walsh and John Sterrett teamed up with Embarcadero to give a 60 minute presentation focusing on the skills...
2015-02-18
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Building Your First Windows Azure Machine
Recently, I had the pleasure of writing another article that was included the Notes From the Field series that is hosted...
2014-12-17
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Get A Free SQL Server 2014 Book!
I have some great news to share. One of my bucket list items is to be a published author. I...
2014-10-02
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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...
2014-06-09
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Learn High Availability and Disaster Recovery with SQL Server in a Day!
If you are near Pittsburgh, PA on May 22, 2014 catch the following all-day training session from 8:30 AM to 4:00...
2014-04-23
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Where is my Availability Group?
In SQL Server 2012 we got this great new high availability feature called availability groups. With readable secondaries under the...
2014-03-21 (first published: 2014-03-18)
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T-SQL Tuesday #50: Automation for LazyDBAs!
T-SQL Tuesday is a monthly blog party hosted by a different blogger each month.
T-SQL Tuesday 50 – Automation
This blog party was...
2014-01-14
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Throwback Thursday #3: SQL Server & Disks
I hope everyone is having a good time gearing up for the holidays. Throwback Thursday is a bi-weekly blog series where...
2013-12-12
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Take Time to Gain Perspective
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The Fringe Festival
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I was lucky enough to take a vacation a decade ago in Edinburgh with...
Demo for Parameter Sniffing and Memory Grant Feedback
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Fulltext filter daemon host (FDHost) process has stopped abnormally
We have performed a side-by-side upgrade, from SQL Server 2016 to 2022 Developer Edition,...
Automating OSM Data Refresh in Power BI’s Azure Maps Reference Layer
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Database Mail Configuration
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Question of the Day
Database Mail Configuration
If I want to get a list of the configuration settings for Database Mail using T-SQL, how can I do so?
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