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Upgrading to SQL Server 2014: A Dozen Things to Check
Here we go again! It seems that it was only yesterday we were talking about all the things you want to look out for when upgrading to SQL Server 2012. Now, just two years since SQL Server 2012 was...
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The Top 5 Most Common Problems With SQL Server
I’ve been working with SQL Server since what seems like forever ++1. The truth is I haven’t been a production DBA in more than 6 years (I work in marketing now, in case you didn’t know). That means I...
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SQL Server 2016 Updated Privacy Statement
Last week while at SQLBits I attended a session titled SQL Server/Azure Engineering Model given by Conor Cunningham from Microsoft. During the talk, Conor announced that there was an update to the SQL...
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Upgrading to SQL Server 2016: Reasons for upgrading
When discussions about upgrading to SQL Server 2016 are brought up the usual first question is this: “Why should we upgrade?” Someone, somewhere, wants to know why they should take a perfectly good...
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Upgrading to SQL Server 2016: Upgrade tasks
In the last post, I mentioned that when upgrading SQL Server 2016 you have two options: in-place or side-by-side. With in-place upgrades, there is no need to worry about the transferring of data to a...
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5 More Questions For Interviewing a Database Administrator
I’ve written before about interviewing a Database Administrator (DBA) and general hiring techniques. I’ve talked about how an interview should be a conversation, not a trivia contest. I always...
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HOW TO: Connect To A Windows Azure VM Using SQL Server Management Studio
In 2013, right before I was helping to deliver a precon seminar at TechEd on Windows Azure SQL Database, Microsoft made available the ability for customers to use virtual machines running in Windows...
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