RYANJADAMS
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PASS 24HOP AlwaysOn Questions Answered
I presented a session titled “SQL Server AlwaysOn Quickstart” on September 10th for the 24 Hours of PASS event. You can view the session recording HERE if you missed it. The session was a preview of the full session I will be presenting at the PASS Summit 2014 this November. I will be presenting the full…
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A Bad Day with Backups
I learned a hard lesson when I first started as a DBA. Although to be honest, it’s not a lesson I should have had to learn (I’ll keep you in suspense). I work for a large Fortune 100 company and as with many companies our size, there are many processes in IT. I was in…
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SQLSaturday Precon Cost Structure
Many of you may already know that I am a PASS regional mentor for the South Central region of the United States. My role is to help user group leaders obtain the tools they need to have successful groups and provide an open platform to discuss challenges and successes. One of the groups in my…
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HA and DR Precon in Denver
I’ll be doing a precon for SQLSaturday #331 in Denver Colorado on September 19th, 2014 titled “A Day of High Availability and Disaster Recovery” . If you can make it, I would love to have you in the class. We are going to cover backups, windows clustering, AlwaysOn Failover Cluster Instances, AlwaysOn Availability Groups, and more.…
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HA and DR Precon in Baton Rouge
I’ll be doing a precon for SQLSaturday #324 in Baton Rouge Louisiana on August 1st, 2014 titled “A Day of High Availability and Disaster Recovery” . If you can make it, I would love to have you in the class. We are going to cover backups, windows clustering, AlwaysOn Failover Cluster Instances, AlwaysOn Availability Groups,…
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Speaking at PASS Summit 2014
I am excited and humbled to be speaking at the PASS Summit for my second year in a row! There were 943 submissions and only 144 spots, so I am really excited and honored to be a part of the largest and most amazing SQL Server conference in the world. They are expecting around 5,000…
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Kerberos Configuration Manager’s Nasty Bug
The Kerberos Configuration Manager is a really handy tool that can make configuring Kerberos a much easier task, but it’s got a nasty little bug. Configuring Kerberos can be tricky. In what way you ask? Here is a short list of just some of the things you have to consider. What is my SPN supposed…
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PASS 2014 Nomination Committee
I’m officially on the slate and running for the PASS 2014 Nomination Committee! Why should you vote for Ryan? I love the PASS SQL Community and everything it embodies. I am very involved at the local and regional level. I know all of the current board members and most of the past board members and those…
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Cannot Failover Nodes Using TempDB on Local Storage
I ran into an interesting issue while installing SQL 2012 SP1 in a failover cluster configuration and utilizing the local TempDB feature. If you are unfamiliar with the new feature in SQL 2012 that allows you store TempDB on a local drive in a failover cluster you can read more here. Here is a screen…
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Central Management Server White Paper
Below is a link to a white paper I wrote on Central Management Server. This white paper is an excellent guide for those who have never used it before. It walks you through how to use CMS from beginning to end. Here is what you can expect to learn: Where to find CMS in management…