Support Manager at Microsoft for the salty veterans in SQL support. Follow me for horror stories from the plates that spin your data (and maybe a few tips too).
Ok, so I’ve read a lot of KB articles over the past decade, and I’ve even written some. These things can open your world to a new level of understanding, or they can confuse you so badly that you go looking for a non-Microsoft…
Have you ever been stuck on a weekend attempting to install a SQL service pack, adding a new node to a cluster, or working to set up a new SQL environment only to hit an error or other problem while trying to run SQL Setup? These three steps have proven to resolve more than…
Hear from the support veterans at SQL Saturday October 3rd in Dallas. The lineup is packed with great speakers and features some of the most experienced support engineers at Microsoft. We are talking about more than 40 years of combined…
SQL Detours — What does a DBA need to know?
This is a tricky topic because there is so much potential for it to be misunderstood. If you aren’t familiar with the term “detours,” it refers to a method of monitoring or validating code execution where one application’s code inserts itself into another. Official statements are a…
I was sharing this with my team this week and thought it might be a good thing to spread out to this community. These basics have remained practically unchanged since replication was first introduced into the product: