Thinking About Technology
Steve is thinking about technology today, inspired by a developer/architect that asks some philosophical and moral questions of software.
Microsoft Fabric, the Land of Wizards and Trolls
In my previous article (What is Microsoft Fabric All About) I explained what Microsoft Fabric is, how it came about and whether it brings anything new to the data insights domain.
SQL Server 2012 Always On Groups and FCIs Part 1
Learn how to get a Failover Cluster Instance set up and configured with Windows and SQL Server. This is part of a series showing how to combine a Failover Cluster Instance of SQL Server with an Always On availability group.
SQL Server 2012 Always On Groups and FCIs Part 4
This is Part 4 of a series on Always On and FCI integration in SQL Server. In this article we will learn how to add the iSCSI disk storage to our SQL Server nodes and build the cluster.
Stairway to Always On Level 1: What is "SQL Server Always On"?
Level 1 of the stairway looks at exactly what the technologies "Always On", "Failover Cluster Instance" (FCI) and "Windows Server Failover Cluster" are. We'll look at each in detail and summarize where in the High Availability stack they sit.
Stairway to Always On Level 2: Storage 101
In this new level of the stairway, we examine the storage knowledge you need for an Always On configuration.
Stairway to Always On Level 3: Infrastructure 101
In this next level of the Stairway to Always On, we will look at the components required to implement a Windows Server Failover Cluster.
Stairway to Always On Level 6: Analyse and Deploy an Always On Availability Group
In level 6 of this stairway, we will look deeper into Availability Groups and how to set them up along with a Listener.
Stairway to Always On Level 7: Combining FCIs with Availability Groups
In Level 7 of this stairway, we look at combining Availability Groups with FCIs for both HA and DR protection.
Stairway to Always On Level 8: Segregate Mirror Traffic in AlwaysOn
this article details how to segregate the mirror traffic in an Always On group configuration
Blogs
A New Word: Immerensis
By Steve Jones
immerensis – n. the maddening inability to understand the reasons why someone loves you...
Deploy a Dockerized Python TODO App to Azure Container Apps Using Pulumi and Azure Key Vault
In this post, I will guide you on how to deploy a dockerized simple...
Using a Local Large Language Model (LLM): Running Ollama on Your Laptop
You can now run powerful LLMs like Llama 3.1 directly on your laptop using...
Forums
mysql query timeout upped but job still fails about same number of minutes in
hi, i changed my mysql based linked server's timeout to N'600' instead of N'0'...
Somebody realized to configure Cluster-Aware updating on VMWare nodes
Creating an Windows Server Fail-over Clusters with two SQL server 2022 and a File...
is it cache or something else
hi a few days ago i narrowed down the cause of a new problem...
Question of the Day
SQL Server Collations
At what levels can we set the collation in SQL Server 2022?
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