RYANJADAMS
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High Availability and Disaster Recovery Training in Austin
I’ll be doing a precon for SQLSaturday #461 in Austin on January 29th, 2016 titled “Creating a High Availability and Disaster Recovery Plan” . If you are in the area or thinking of attending this event, I would love to have you in the class. We are going to cover backups, windows clustering, AlwaysOn Failover Cluster Instances,…
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Thank You Community
All I can say is, “Wow…Thank you!”. I won a seat on the PASS Board of Directors and it’s very surreal. I am beyond excited, but not for what happened. I’m excited and energized for what is to come. PASS is young and our industry is in constant flux so I know there are some…
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Lessons Learned
In an effort to be transparent, as I promised I would in my campaign, I want to explain my actions regarding the email sent out through the PASS Virtual Chapter. As part of my campaign, I reached out to my personal network and asked folks if they would be willing to send out a note…
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PASS Election Questions Answered 2
Today I am going to continue with my PASS Election Questions and Answers series. Here is where you can find the rest of the series and my campaign landing page. Election Landing Page My Board Qualities PASS Election Questions Answered Question 1 If elected, what would prompt you to step down before the end of…
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PASS Election Questions Answered
As we continue through the campaign period for this year’s PASS Board of Directors Election (Voting opens tomorrow morning), I want to continue to show our community members the type of board member I would be by asking myself some questions. You can find my first questions post here. I also want our members to…
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PASS Election Changes
The 2014 NomCom made some changes to how the election process works and it’s something you need to pay attention to. It was posted on the PASS blog, but not really advertised that much so I want to highlight those changes and their importance. I served on the NomCom in 2013 and we knew changes…
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My Board Qualities
I’m going to hopefully show examples of some qualities I have that will benefit me if chosen as a board member. I’m going to do that by pretending you folks asked me some questions. Here we go! Here are the other posts in the series. Election Landing Page This Post PASS Election Questions Answered…
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High Availability and Disaster Recovery Training in Dallas
I’ll be doing a precon for SQLSaturday #447 in my home town of Dallas on October 2nd, 2015 titled “Creating a High Availability and Disaster Recovery Plan” . If you are in the area or thinking of attending this event, I would love to have you in the class. We are going to cover backups, windows clustering,…
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SSMS 2016 CTP 2.2 Setup Failure 0x81f40001
I built a brand new virtual machine running Windows 2012 R2 and SQL Server 2016 CTP 2.2 (the June edition). The exact version as shown in the error is 13.0.0407.1 but in SSMS it returns 13.0.407.1. As some of you may know, one of the new things in SQL 2016 is that Microsoft decoupled the…
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Architecture VC AlwaysOn Questions Answered
On July 15th, 2015 I spoke to the PASS Architecture Virtual Chapter about AlwaysOn Failover Cluster Instances and AlwaysOn Availability Groups. Obviously we focused on the technology from an architectural standpoint. We discussed a lot of things that come into play when designing an AlwaysOn infrastructure whether it be FCIs and/or AGs. We answered questions…