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Use protection to stay available

One of the biggest worries for us grumpy DBAs are the risks which are posed to us due to our reliance on other teams, specialists and technologies in order to maintain a working and efficient SQL...

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Disk partition alignment

I’m sure by now most of you will have heard about Disk Partition Alignment and why it is so important (and not just for use with SQL Server IO Subsystems). I’m really quite interested in how many...

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The fantastically forgetful IP stack

So the first thing you are probably wondering is… “does this post have anything to do with SQL Server”. Well if you have ever listened to my views on specialization and generalization you may be aware...

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Mr. Fumble Fingers

If you are not perfect (and I am guessing you are not!) you will have been in that situation where you have clicked your mouse button (substitute with your own horror story) and then almost immediately...

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From Gnome to Flux

In between the time I am looking into all things SQL and all things Microsoft I am usually tinkering in Linux, and this usually consists of tweaking my user desktop environment so that I may have a...

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How to increase your Virtual Processors in the OS

There usually comes a time in your Virtual Machine life-cycle that you think …I wish I’d given that baby more processors for me to play with! This is especially true if the Virtual Machine in question...

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T-SQL Tuesday #25 – The Best Tool You’ve Never Used

Wow, it’s been a long time since my last T-SQL Tuesday post and I have disappointingly missed it 5 times for one reason or another. Still, the important thing is that I am back people! This month’s...

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How to remove your Virtual machine’s BLOAT

Well I guess its been a long time since I have offered you a useful nugget of information or help, so I have decided to haul myself to the keyboard and provide a useful tip that I have been saving for...

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Using the SQL Server Installation Wizard on Server Core!

Ever heard the phrase “just because you can, doesn’t mean you should?”. Yep me too -many times, and what I am about to say comes with that caveat in mind although as I shall explain, I see absolutely...

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Upload files to your Azure VM instance

Sometimes some of the simplest tips are the best, and recently I was trying to figure out just how to upload SQL Server 2012 Enterprise/ Developer Edition installation files to my Windows Azure Virtual...

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Read your old CHM files from network storage on Windows 8

I was just recently going through my old SQL Server documents and reference material and attempting to organize and tidy things up, when I re-discovered a huge collection of literature that even now is...

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10 reasons why I HAte you!

(or My Top Ten High Availability annoyances) Designing, planning, deploying, administrating and recovering (known from now on as DePlanDeAR – and pronounced in the tone of a Caribbean Grandma :) ) a...

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How to run SQL Server on Linux

UPDATE 2011-04-10: PLEASE NOTE THIS WAS AN APRILS FOOL JOKE :) Well I have finally cracked it, after years of trying (and a little help from the R2 release) to get SQL Server to install and run happily...

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Remember your OS when upgrading to SQL 2012

Probably as far back as the end of last year when I first started putting material together for my Enter the Dragon and Moves like Jagger presentations and giving very early mash up presentations of...

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How to install SharePoint 2013 on Windows 2012R2

If you want to jump straight to the condensed solution, then please feel free to go to the Condensed Installation instructions below. If you find this post useful or have any feedback then please leave...

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Problems creating Windows Cluster through Powershell

Creating a Windows Cluster is surprisingly easy, but every now and again you run into small problems which irritate and are not really helped by the error messages – a problem which is exacerbated by...

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Moving lost applications back into your Desktop on Windows

Ok, I confess that this post is about as far removed as I can probably get from my blogging “focus”, but as of late I have been running into this problem more and more frequently on my Windows 10...

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Setting up Samba on Linux Mint (the easy way)

The Server Message Block (SMB) Protocol is a network file sharing protocol introduced by Microsoft and can be incredibly useful when moving files across multiplatform machines (particularly if your...

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Loading and using SQL Server Management Objects in PowerShell

I recently came across a snippet of code I had written for a client several years ago – one of those “by the way, how would you do this” type of requests. On the face of it, the task at hand seemed...

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Manipulating SQL Agent Jobs through PowerShell

In our last post titled Loading and using SQL Server Management Objects in PowerShell, we demonstrated how to load and consume SQL Server Management Objects in PowerShell, which then allows us to...

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