We all (should) know that running SQL Server in hyperconverged virtual environments, both on-premises and in the cloud, has some interesting trade-offs. The biggest is write latency from the...
2022-12-09 (first published: 2022-11-25)
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I’m proud to be a part of the SQL Server communities globally. I do everything I can do to give back when I can. Too many times, I feel...
2022-12-02 (first published: 2022-11-15)
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You’re invited! I’m thrilled to be co-presenting a session on the top five SQL Server virtual machine performance tuning tips with our friends at Sanity Solutions on July 21st...
2022-07-13 (first published: 2022-06-25)
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We’ve been tracking a weird state with SQL Server virtual machines on VMware and possible warnings on database corruption while VM backups are running, largely centered around (but not...
2022-06-10 (first published: 2022-05-18)
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I am thrilled to have been a part of this year’s Storage Field Day 23 event, held by Gestalt IT during the first week of March. This event is...
2022-05-17
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I am thrilled to have been a part of this year’s Storage Field Day 23 event, held by Gestalt IT during the first week of March. This event is...
2022-05-16
34 reads
Have you ever wondered why Windows Server doesn’t show disk performance metrics in Task Manager, but your Windows 10/11 OS does? It’s a really silly difference. Let’s fix that....
2022-05-06 (first published: 2022-04-26)
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I live my life in the field of information technology. Most of the topics that I work with are making databases speedy and more readily available. As such, most...
2022-05-04 (first published: 2022-04-25)
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I am thrilled to have been a part of this year’s Storage Field Day 23 event, held by Gestalt IT during the first week of March. This event is...
2022-05-04
34 reads
I’m thrilled to be presenting the second part of a four-part webinar series with ActualTech Media called “Optimizing SQL Server on VMware Data Protection and Disaster Recovery” this Friday,...
2022-03-14
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By Ed Elliott
All Spark Connect Posts Introduction There have been quite a few changes in the last...
By Steve Jones
ochisia – n. the fear that the role you once occupied in someone’s life...
This is a quick blog post, mainly so I have the code available if...
I'm using PowerQuery in Excel on my desktop. (Yeah, I know you can do...
Here's my data... I am trying to return total days in status for each...
Here's my data... I am trying to return total days in status for each...
When building statistics, there is the concept of density that refers to the duplicates in a table. How is this calculated?
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