Domain Independent Cluster and Availability Group
What is a Domain Independent Cluster? Did you know that you can have a Windows cluster that is a domain independent cluster and run a SQL Server Availability Group...
2018-07-05
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Domain Independent Cluster and Availability Group
What is a Domain Independent Cluster? Did you know that you can have a Windows cluster that is a domain independent cluster and run a […]
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2018-07-05
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Verify Allocation Unit Size for SQL Server
Why Do I Care? Everything in SQL Server is stored on disk in 8K pages. The Microsoft recommended best practice...
2018-06-19
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Verify Allocation Unit Size for SQL Server
Why Do I Care? Everything in SQL Server is stored on disk in 8K pages. The Microsoft recommended best practice...
2018-06-19
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How to Upgrade an AG Cluster to Windows 2016
Starting in Windows Server 2012 R2 you now have a way to upgrade a cluster to Windows 2016. The best...
2017-11-09
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How to Upgrade an AG Cluster to Windows 2016
Starting in Windows Server 2012 R2 you now have a way to upgrade a cluster to Windows 2016. The best...
2017-11-09
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Sync SQL Logins and Jobs
In this post I’ll point you to some options to sync SQL logins and then I’ll demo my favorite option...
2017-06-08
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Sync SQL Logins and Jobs
In this post I’ll point you to some options to sync SQL logins and then I’ll demo my favorite option...
2017-06-08
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Implementing Buffer Pool Extension
Buffer Pool Extension was released in SQL 2014 so it’s not new. It is also not advertised very much, but...
2017-05-29 (first published: 2017-05-18)
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Implementing Buffer Pool Extension
Buffer Pool Extension was released in SQL 2014 so it’s not new. It is also not advertised very much, but...
2017-05-18
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UNISTR Escape
In SQL Server 2025, I run this command:
SELECT UNISTR('*3041*308A*304C\3068 and good night', '*') as "A Classic";
What is returned? (assume the database has an appropriate collation)
A: 
B: 
C: 
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