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T-SQL Tuesday #193: Listen up me!
December 11, 2025
Welcome to my rendition of T-SQL Tuesday. This month’s edition is hosted by Mike Walsh, who asks authors to write two short notes to yourself – one in the past, and one from the future. Dear 2015 Mike, Your first child is 2, your second is 6 months old, and your time with them is going … Read more
Distributed Availability Groups – Certificates, Crash Recovery, and Headaches (Case of the Week)
December 5, 2025
There are a ton of great resources out there teaching you how to build a Distributed Availability Group (DAG), but there aren’t many at all that help you troubleshoot them when they go bump. Fortunately for you (and unfortunately for me) I’ve had enough experience administering DAGs that I’d like to start to share the … Read more
Data: The Asset/Liability Paradox
December 2, 2025
This post is written by a human; all errors and omissions are the author’s responsibility. Data is not a cliché. We’ve all heard from technical vendors that “Data is the new oil”, and “Data is our strategic Asset”. While those statements have a ring of truth, they lull us into a false sense of security. They emphasize only the positive aspects of creating, obtaining, storing and … Read more
T-SQL Tuesday #193 – A Note to Your Past, and a Warning from Your Future
December 2, 2025
I last hosted T-SQL Tuesday back in 2010 (T-SQL Tuesday #4 IO), I guess it’s been a minute! This month, let’s get a little reflective/introspective. Call it an end-of-year wrap-up theme. We all have those moments where we look back and think, “I spent a lot of energy worrying about the wrong thing(s)…” After some … Read more
Troubleshooting SQL Server Failover Cluster Instance Weirdness
November 21, 2025
Case of the Week: Quick Summary Two of the four clients’ SQL Server Failover Cluster Instances (FCIs) did not fail over to the secondary node. Context This is a SQL Server 2019 with four load-balanced FCI’s running on two physical servers with 64 CPUs, 4TB of memory, and a Pure Storage array on the backend. … Read more