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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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  • Reinstall SQL Server Performance Counters

    Reinstall SQL Server Performance Counters

    I’ve had several instances over the last few months where I had to reinstall the SQL Server Performance Counters.  It sounds odd to have them magically disappear, but I’ve found a 3rd party monitoring product to be the culprit. First we need to unload the counters just to make sure everything is removed and we…

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  • SSPI Handshake Failed

    SSPI Handshake Failed

    A fellow community member sent me an email saying he was having trouble authenticating with Kerberos.  Here is the error he was receiving: SSPI handshake failed with error code 0x8009030c, state 14 while establishing a connection with integrated security; the connection has been closed. Reason: AcceptSecurityContext failed. The Windows error code indicates the cause of…

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