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Mysteriously exploding Failover Clusters and Azure Host Maintenance
Not too long ago in the past I had really interesting afternoon. It wasn’t interesting because I had 3 Failover Clusters that exploded, that’s just horrible, it was interesting because they exploded exactly 40 minutes apart. While I do believe in coincidences, that was just way too precise to be a random occurrence. After looking […]
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Perils of synthetic test data
I was recently involved in a query tuning work where we used synthetic, rather than production data, to validate the results of our query and index tuning work. We faced some issues with the generated data that had quite a severe impact on our testing, and that prompted me into writing this blog post. Lets […]
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Looking back to 2017
As we are almost done with the year 2017 it is a good time to look back for a moment, and to also consider what the next year will bring. This year has seen a fair share of hype around the topics of AI and Blockchain, even I touched that latter topic with this blog post. […]
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End of Lifecycle for Windows 2003 R2 and SQL Server 2005
Just a friendly reminder to everyone that just like all good things come to and end so does the extended support for these two Microsoft products. First will be the Windows 2003 R2 with the end of lifecycle date set to July 14 2015 and soon after that SQL Server 2005 with it’s end of […]
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Review: Ola Hallengrens Maintenance Solution
SQL Server offers out-of-the-box solution to create a workflow of tasks that can be used to optimize, backup and run consistency checks on your databases. These workflows, commonly known as Maintenance Plans, are actually Integration Services packages that are run either by scheduling them as SQL Server Agent jobs or manually. While I wholeheartedly recommend […]
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Some statistics after first year of blogging
I just realized that it’s been a year since I started this blog. Here are some quick statistics about where are my readers from and what they are interested about.
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What the Cluster Validation Test doesn’t tell you.
When I’m dealing with a problem on a Failover Cluster (not very often, but sometimes) one of the first steps I do is to run the Validation Test. It’s a great tool that’ll usually show what might be the problem, but apparently not always… For the last couple days I’ve been busy wrecking havoc on […]