John Sterrett is very active within the SQL Server community. He is a PASS Regional Mentor for the South Central Region, co-founded the West Virginia SQL Server User Group and hosted two PASS SQL Saturday events in West Virginia. John has presented at several SQL Server events including PASS SQLRally, PASS Member Summit, many PASS SQL Saturday events, code camps, and, user groups. John is a syndicated blogger at http://johnsterrett.com.

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Azure Managed Instance Changing DNS prefix

Azure Managed Instances are provisioned by default with a yourname.uniqueid.databases.windows.net DNS fully qualified domain name (FQDN). Even on your private virtual network you will still have to use this...

2022-10-05 (first published: )

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I am a consultant in Austin who can help make your data go fast, be secure and highly available. When I am engaged in a performance tuning project priority...

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What's the Date?

In SQL Server 2025, there is a new function that returns the current date without the time. What is it?

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