(Fight by Jorge Gonzales) The first and best victory is to conquer self. – Plato – One week into 2025 and we’re all still hyped up about our New Year’s resolutions. I previously wrote about what New Year’s resolutions are all about and since then have been reviewing keyword searches that have led to my […]
The Christmas holidays are usually time for me to do more reading, studying and reflection. It’s also when things slow down a bit because a lot of people go on vacations (except when I get special requests to work on year-end projects). I use this time to reflect on what I have done in the previous year […]
So, why haven’t you pursued that project yet? At the back of your mind, you knew you wanted to Write that blog post or article Submit a presentation abstract for a SQL Server event Volunteer to design and implement a SQL Server Availability Group solution for a customer Start that business you’ve been thinking about […]
I started this blog post with a warning mainly because I’ve seen a lot of engineers and database administrators spend so much time figuring out the root cause of why a SQL Server database running on a WSFC is offline – while it is still offline. I know because I used to be like that. […]
SQL Server Failover Clustered Instances (FCI) and Availability Groups (AG) depend a lot on Windows Server Failover Clustering (WSFC). Understanding how the underlying WSFC platform works can help us maintain availability of our databases In the first blog post in this series, I talked about how to use the Cluster Dependency Report to identify the potential […]