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  • I’m a SQL Server MVP!

    I’m a SQL Server MVP!

    I was just awarded as a Microsoft SQL Server MVP! I can’t believe Microsoft has chosen me for this award and to be included in such a prestigious program.  There are only a little over 70 SQL Server MVPs in the United States and a little over 350 world wide. For my readers who are…

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  • PASS 24HOP AlwaysOn Questions Answered

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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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  • Local TempDB on SQL 2012

    Local TempDB on SQL 2012

    This post has been sitting in the draft folder for way too long, March of last year to be precise.  So although this is no longer new information, it has not been talked about all that much.  I’m talking about the new feature in SQL Server 2012 that allows you to put TempDB on local…

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  • SQL Named Instance – Static Port Overrides with SQL Browser

    SQL Named Instance – Static Port Overrides with SQL Browser

    I ran across an issue that I haven’t seen since SQL 2000 and had almost forgotten about.  Let’s do a quick review of ports in SQL Server.  A default instance of SQL Server uses port 1433.  That’s just the default and you can change it to whatever you want.  Bear in mind that if you…

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