Phil Parkin (9/17/2015)

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I'm with you, Jeff. Using the threat of leaving, directly or indirectly, as a means to increase your salary feels ethically wrong and akin to bribery. If you're...

Two nodes are fine if you're using AlwaysOn Availiability Groups. What Perry said is that you can't combine AOAGs with a FCI with only two nodes- pick one or the...

Typing in a hurry at work.

You don't need to install the instances the way you would for a FCI- you can just use standalone instances (unless you are doing a...

I don't think that was David's point. There are clever folks who like to whinge about all the work they are given, who complain about everyone else, who are unhygienic...

I was just wondering how this is going for you?

Microsoft Virtual Academy is free, and has some quite good modules (some better than others). You can earn points as you go along and stuff, and it has courses pitched...

Nadrek, how would you define a Systems DBA?

Thanks.

Does this apply?

http://www.brentozar.com/archive/2015/09/synchronous-alwayson-availability-groups-is-not-zero-data-loss/

I'm currently Production, but I was previously a DevOps DBA, which was a lot more interesting (to me).

I've definitely heard it suggested before. An example might be where you have a synchronous Availability Group between two local servers in case of hardware failure, and then logshipping to...

As Gail says, contractors and consultants are not necessarily the same thing. It sounds as though you are asking about contracting (as well as possibly about being a consultant). There...

Have a look at the SQL error log. It should say something like "Login failed for user 'xxx' [CLIENT:] and then give an IP address.

Then start up a command prompt...

I really don't mean this rudely, but have you Googled the error message? There are some helpful blog posts about it already that might be worth a read.

I was wondering the same thing as BLOB_EATER. The AG would need to span both instances, of course.

Is something else (e.g. an app server) trying to log in with the wrong password? There should be an IP address- can you trace that back to a hostname (ping...