Azure Arc-enabled Data Services – Cloud Summit 2021
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Azure Arc-enabled Data Services – Cloud Summit 2021

Yesterday, I had the opportunity to speak at the Cloud Summit, an international community event, about Azure Arc-enabled Data Services. Specifically, I focused on operating an Azure SQL Managed Instance in your data center. As I previously did at DataSaturday #14 in Oslo, I began my presentation by discussing the various options of Azure Arc….

Azure Arc Data Services - Data Saturday #14 - Oslo 2021
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Data Saturday #14 – Oslo 2021 – Introduction into Azure Arc Data Services

Today the time had come – I was finally able to speak at Data Saturday (formerly SQLSaturday) in Oslo … that was finally not due to the organizers but rather to me or the pandemic, since I hadn’t dared to give lectures until 2020 Keeping English, I hadn’t submitted any sessions for Oslo either. I…

DBCC 2021 – Die Data Blaster Community Conference
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SQL Server High Availability – DBCC 2021 – Part 1

Any one of my customers has asked, or should have asked, “do I need a certain level of high availability for my SQL server or one of my SQL servers?” Regrettably, these deliberations often come to a halt when it comes to the budget… Naturally, such HA-solutions are more expensive, and depending on the solution…

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Aha effect when setting SQL instance parameters with dbatools

In the last week, I installed several SQL Servers for one customer and had to install and configure them all identically. What is closer here than to do this with a Powershell script, so I made the “effort” and the individual steps of the SQL Server configuration with dbatools to realize. I do not want…

Configure SQL Server after Installation - SetMaxDOP
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#4 SQL Server Configuration – implement Best Practices

I hadn’t been writing this Powershell series for a long time, and I’d like to make up for it, even though a lot of things have changed (in my work & community life) … I’d like to introduce you to two things today, once in a conventional way and how Powershell could configure SQL Server…