2020-10-22
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High Availability (HA)
2020-10-15
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2020-09-21 (first published: 2020-08-25)
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Configuring Availability Groups in Ubuntu
In this article, we will review how to configure Always On Availability Groups in Ubuntu Server using the Pacemaker cluster. The following are the high-level steps to configure Always On Availability Groups (AOAG) with an Ubuntu server. Install SQL Server on Ubuntu 16.04 Install Pacemaker agents and configure the cluster Create Always On Availability Groups Create […]
2020-08-25
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Have You Deployed an Availability Group?
Learning about the Availability Group technology can be valuable for your career. Today Steve asks if you've deployed one, and if not, perhaps you want to try.
2024-03-11 (first published: 2020-04-03)
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What's the Cost of an Hour?
Outages can be expensive, and today Steve asks if you know just how expensive they are for your organization.
2020-03-20
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DR Priority
Today Steve asks about HA and DR. What compromises and choices do you make in your environment and how do you ensure your clients can get to their data.
2019-11-22
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MTTD
Achieving high availability is hard. Today Steve discusses the challenges of five nines of uptime.
2024-08-05 (first published: 2019-09-11)
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A Step by Step Guide to the Availability Group (AG) Listener
Availability databases hosted on SQL Server Always On Availability Groups (AG) can be connected using a unique Virtual Network Name (VNN), called the Availability Group Listener. When an Availability Group is enabled, clients can connect to databases in both primary and secondary replicas without explicitly specifying the SQL Server instance name. You don’t even need […]
2019-07-02
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Configuring the distribution database in an Availability Group
Starting with SQL Server 2017 CU6 and SQL Server 2016 SP2-CU3, you can now configure your distribution database as part of an Availability Group (AG). I found one spot...
2019-04-08
Blogs
The SUM of Nothing: #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
I caught this interesting item over on Pinal Dave’s blog: Eleven Interview Questions that...
How to Move the SSMS Status Bar to the Top and Color-Code SQL Server Connections
By Hemantgiri
I use color-coded connections in SSMS to distinguish Production, Pre-Production, UAT, and Development. But...
Architecting Zero Downtime Deployments–Day of Data Boston
By Steve Jones
Here are the resources for my talk at Day of Data Boston. Slides –...
Forums
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Finding Trailing Spaces
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Question of the Day
Finding Trailing Spaces
I have some data in a SQL Server 2025 database. It looks like this for the dbo.Customer table:
CustomerID CustomerName PreferredName 1 Steve Steve 2 Andy Andy 3 Brian Brian 4 Allan Allan 5 Devin Devin 6 Steve Steve 7 Sally SallyI want to detect which names have a single trailing space. The CustomerName is a varchar() and the PreferredName is a CHAR(). Does this query detect the problem rows?
SELECT
CustomerID,
CustomerName,
PreferredName
FROM Customer
WHERE CustomerName <> RTRIM(CustomerName)
OR PreferredName <> RTRIM(PreferredName); See possible answers