Windows Server
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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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How to move Cluster MSDTC Drive
I recently had the need to move the MSDTC for a cluster to a new SAN drive. It’s a quite simple thing to do, but you can’t redirect the MSDTC resource to a new drive. Let’s just walk through the basic steps. The first thing you need to do is get the new drive added to the cluster and…
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How to move Cluster Quorum Drive
I recently had the need to move the quorum for a cluster to a new SAN drive. It’s a quite simple thing to do, but some of the options and locations of the cluster resources itself are a little hidden in Windows 2008. Let’s just walk through the basic steps. The first thing you need to do…
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My DSN Does Not Work on Windows 64bit
How to create a DSN on Windows 64bit for your 32bit application
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How I Became a DBA
How Ryan Adams became a DBA and his involvement in the SQL community
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Extend Hyper-V Guest System Partition
How to extend the boot partition on a Hyper-V guest
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System.EnterpriseServices.dll & SQLRS 2005
How to fix system.enterprisesystems.dll not found error while using SQL Reporting Services 2005
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Turbo Charge Active Directory
Turbo charge your active directory by enabling change notifications
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AD LastLogon Utility
HTA utility to discover, manage, and report AD user last logon times.
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Setting DNS Suffix Search List via GPO
Why setting the DNS Suffix Search order via GPO can be dangerous in the enterprise
