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Recently I’d been asked to increase the partner timeout of all the mirrored databases on an instance. There were many databases on this instance so I decided to use the undocumented feature sp_MSforeachdb instead. This system stored procedure returns all
The fantastic Second Shot offer is available again. Get Studying! https://www.microsoft.com/learning/en-us/second-shot.aspx
Some of the feedback I had from my session at SQL Saturday in Edinburgh was on the Service Plan’s* available in Azure for Web hosting. The different levels from Free to Standard have vastly differing underlying capabilities and costs.The most relevant of
Last Saturday was the third SQL Saturday in Edinburgh organised by Jen Stirrup. And what a success it was again. From the enlightening line up of great speakers over a wide variety of subjects that used Business Intelligence to the Sponsors and the fantastic lunch it
Last year I was able to attend SQL Saturday in Copenhagen, Denmark and had a fantastic time both during and outside the event. I made new friends and met them many times again during other SQL Saturday events in the
I’m quite excited by the new MCSD: Azure Solutions Architect certification. I’ve previously attained the 70-533: Implementing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions and was thinking of the 70-534: Architecting Microsoft Azure Solutions as my next step. With the MCSD there is
I’ve been looking at the new Windows Server Technical Preview 2 and it has some fantastic features but a few of them are so significant I thought I’d mention them.Let us start with the Storage Replica Overview which provides Synchronous
Recently I’ve been playing with Azure and it’s command line friends including Azure PowerShell. And it’s been a fun journey with Domain Controllers, Virtual Networks, SQL Server (every time) and some websites. This post assumes some knowledge of Azure and
Interesting changes about how to obtain a pre-qualifying MCSA for the Lync, Messaging and SharePoint MCSE’s.http://borntolearn.mslearn.net/btl/b/weblog/archive/2014/08/14/mcsa-office-365-now-an-optional-path-to-three-mcse-tracks.aspxThe changes seem to make the learning path to the relevant MCSE certifications even more relevant and fluid whilst still maintaining the choice of the
SQL Server 2012 Service Pack 2 is now available at http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=43340 for the main versions.More information available at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2755533