This is inspired by all the times I am forced to repeat myself. To cut down on hearing my own…
Well That Escalated Quickly… Error 35217 translates to, “The thread pool for AlwaysOn Availability Groups was unable to start a…
Background I’ve now run across a few different instances where the monitoring for quorum was done via this DMV. On…
Refresher It may be news (or not) to you that SQL Server can utilize the latest transport security standards when…
The road to Hell is paved with good intentions. I get it, your security team is the best ever. You…
I had initially wrote this post with a great deal of information, but it came across as snarky and condescending…
There has, for whatever reason, been a recent craze to figure out if a certain replica does or does not…
Migrations from Windows Server 2008/R2 must be in full swing as there seems to be quite the buzz that SQL…
I’ve been asked, intermittently, the same question for the last 3-4 years regarding trace flag 2861. It comes up in…
About 5 years ago I had stopped writing blog posts on my personal site. Sadly a few different items had…