I just noticed today that there is a new blade in the Azure portal when creating a new SQL Server virtual machine. I’ve been looking for an announcement regarding...
2019-06-11 (first published: 2019-05-24)
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If you are like me and were unable to get away from the office to attend Microsoft Build 2019 you will be glad to know that Microsoft has published...
2019-05-10
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If you are deploying SQL Server in Azure, or any Cloud platform for that matter, instead of just provisioning storage like you did for your on-premises deployments for many...
2019-05-14 (first published: 2019-05-02)
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Intro On July 9, 2019, support for SQL Server 2008 and 2008 R2 will end. That means the end of regular security updates. However, if you move those SQL...
2019-05-02 (first published: 2019-04-19)
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Introduction
The topic of mixing SQL Server Failover Cluster Instances (FCI) with Always On Availability Groups (AG) is pretty well documented....
2019-03-13
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If you have been following my blog, you probably know that I write a lot of step-by-step guides for building...
2019-02-15
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Introduction
If you are reading this article you probably are still using SQL Server 2008/2008 R2 and want to take advantage...
2019-02-04
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If you are still running SQL Server 2008/2008 R2 you probably have heard by now that as of July 9,...
2019-01-09
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Recently I have had a number of customers looking for a high availability solution for MaxDB on Windows in the...
2018-12-28
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If you are anything like me, you might have a few different Google accounts that you work with on a...
2018-11-01
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This month, I prompted bloggers to discuss whether good enough is perfect. Thank you to all...
By Steve Jones
Recently a customer asked if SQL Compare and SQL Data Compare can be used...
i see this in the definition of a linked server on our wh sql...
Is this even possible ? Tried with grant but to no avail. [sys].[database_role_members] and...
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Stairway to Snowflake Level 5...
What does this code return in SSMS 20 from SQL Server 2019?
select '|' + CHAR(0)+'abc' + '|';See possible answers