Google Cloud Spanner – Next big thing in the database world?
Last month Google announced the public beta for Cloud Spanner, and I would like to share few details around this since it’s a big news! So, what exactly is...
2017-03-14
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Windows Server 2016 and SQL Server 2016 – A match made in heaven!
For all these years Windows Server 2016 is the Windows version I was waiting for, and this blog post will explain why...
2016-12-22
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Windows Server 2016 and SQL Server 2016 – A match made in heaven!
For all these years Windows Server 2016 is the Windows version I was waiting for, and this blog post will explain why I’m super excited about this! With Windows Server 2016,...
2016-12-22
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When disks have different sector sizes for primary and secondary replica log files in an AlwaysOn Availability Group Config
Recently I was analyzing a stress test result for an AG configuration, and as usual I was reading to SQL error...
2016-11-07
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When disks have different sector sizes for primary and secondary replica log files in an AlwaysOn Availability Group Config
Recently I was analyzing a stress test result for an AG configuration, and as usual I was reading to SQL error logs to see if there is anything out of...
2016-11-07
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AlwaysOn Availability Group Database Level Health Detection – SQL Server 2016
SQL Server 2016 AlwaysOn AG got many improvements, and I’m pretty impressed with the log throughput improvements and redo improvements...
2016-07-08 (first published: 2016-06-30)
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AlwaysOn Availability Group Database Level Health Detection – SQL Server 2016
SQL Server 2016 AlwaysOn AG got many improvements, and I’m pretty impressed with the log throughput improvements and redo improvements based on some of my test cases(A detailed blog...
2016-06-30
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Why you should think about upgrading to SQL Server 2016!
SQL Server 2005 is out of support and you might be (Or rather, you should be) planning an enterprise wide...
2016-05-01
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Why you should think about upgrading to SQL Server 2016!
SQL Server 2005 is out of support and you might be (Or rather, you should be) planning an enterprise wide upgrade of SQL Server. Are you thinking of upgrading...
2016-05-01
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Curious case of SYS.MESSAGES
A strange error struck me last week, and this post is all about that.
What you normally expect when you run...
2016-03-15 (first published: 2016-03-07)
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Blogs
Using Prompt AI for a Travel Data Analysis
By Steve Jones
I was looking back at my year and decided to see if SQL Prompt...
FinOps for Kubernetes: Leveraging OpenCost, KubeGreen, and Kubecost for Cost Efficiency
In the era of cloud-native applications, Kubernetes has become the default standard platform for...
2025 Wrapped for Steve
By Steve Jones
I’ve often done some analysis of my year in different ways. Last year I...
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reaching ftp thru winscp but erroring in ssis ftp task connection
Hi, below i show various results trying to reach our ftp site (a globalscape...
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The Last Binary Value of the Year
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The Last Binary Value of the Year
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