I was recently asked a question, while fixing a cluster connectivity issue, about how the cluster resource dll knows on…
I see many questions, and have been on the receiving end of many myself, about out of support items and…
Let me start off by saying that DBATools is a great tool that is immensely helpful to the community, if…
Primer If you haven’t already read up on cooperative and preemptive scheduling or aren’t sure what those are, please read…
The Dude I get asked if I know anything about <newest SQL vulnerability as reported by random website>, quite often.…
You’ve Asked, It’s Now Here! The largest complaint, by far, for Availability Groups (AG) has been that system databases could…
It’s Great When No One Asks Questions You’re taking the best steps to track what goes on in your instance…
Many DBAs haven’t had the experience of using database mirroring, since it was deprecated in 2012 when availability groups were…
Hey Dispatch, We Have a Code 8 If you’ve been following with the series of demystifying dumps then you’re probably…
What’s an IOCP? IO Completion Ports are a set of Windows APIs which allow for efficient, fast, multithreaded asynchronous IO.…