Days of future past

There’s a lot going on in the world today. It feels like there’s too much for us to think about. Speaking for myself, I’m worried about the environment first...

Notes on SQLSaturday Orlando 2021

We held an in-person SQLSaturday here in Orlando last weekend (Oct 30th). We didn’t organize one last year, there was just too much risk and too much uncertainty, so...

Row-Level Security Basics–#SQLNewBlogger

Another post for me that is simple and hopefully serves as an example for people trying to get blogging as #SQLNewBloggers. I realized recently that I hadn’t really blogged...

Daily Coping 16 Nov 2021

I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to the Community Circle, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m...

Architect a Managed Disaster Recovery on Amazon RDS for SQL Server

 Customers often ask for guidance on choosing the right DR solution for RDS SQL Server. In this blog series, we cover the DR solutions available for Amazon RDS for SQL Server. If...

Architect a Managed Disaster Recovery on Amazon RDS for SQL Server.

Customers often ask for guidance on choosing the right DR solution for RDS SQL Server. In this blog series, we cover the DR solutions available for Amazon RDS for SQL Server. If...

AWS RDS SQL Server Announcements - 2021

 
AWS RDS SQL Server Announcements - 2021

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/01/amazon-rds-for-sql-server-now-supports-tempdb-on-local-instance-store-with-r5d-and-m5d-instance-types/
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/02/amazon-rds-for-sql-server-now-supports-always-on-availability-groups-for-standard-edition/
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/04/amazon-rds-sql-server-supports-extended-events/
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/05/amazon-rds-for-sql-server-supports-managed-disaster-recovery-with-amazon-rds-cross-region-automated-backups/
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/05/announcing-amazon-rds-for-sql-server-on-aws-outposts/
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/07/amazon-rds-sql-server-supports-new-minor-versions/
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/09/amazon-rds-sql-server-msdtc-jdbc-xa-sql-server-2017-cu16-plus-sql-server-2019/
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/09/amazon-rds-sql-server-msdtc-jdbc-xa-sql-server-2017-cu16-plus-sql-server-2019/

Daily Coping 15 Nov 2021

I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to the Community Circle, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m...

SQL Homework – November 2021 – Backup, restore, and move the system databases?

On any instance you have at least 5 system databases. Master, model, msdb, tempdb and one other. First 5 points ... Continue reading

Which Processes are waiting on a Spinlock?

Spinlock contention is always a real headache to deal with. I recently saw an issue when spinlock contention on SOS_CACHESTORE was making the server virtually unresponsive. The issue was...