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Hardware Changes in Windows 2012 RS VM’s
I have been reading a few of the latest Ebooks from Microsoft press lately: Introducing Windows Server 2012 R2 Introducing Windows Azure for IT Professionals In this book, I felt it gave one of the...
View ArticleLanguage components of Structured Query Language (SQL)
Recently, I have been working on improving my querying ability in Microsoft SQL and have been reading Itzik Ben-Gan’s book. I thought I had written this topic in an earlier and to my surprise I was...
View ArticleTypes of MSSQL Joins
In Microsoft SQL Server, we have four types of joins. We use these joins to fetch data from multiple tables that are based on a condition. A join condition is a relationship among some columns in the...
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Navigating easier with the Windows 8.1 Start Menu
Windows 8/Server 2012 changed the way, user interacted with the desktop and safe to say at this point, a lot of people were unhappy with the new design. Personally, I feel it is a shame, because I feel...
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Adding Shortcuts to the Windows 8 Start Menu
One of the main concerns with the Windows 8 Start Menu is that it changed the end user experience and software behavior that people had gotten used to with Windows. Last week, my article discussed how...
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Windows 8.1 Update: Improvements and Changes
As you are aware, the last few articles that I wrote about are regarding the Windows 8 Start Menu. I talked about creating new shortcuts and how to navigate easier with the start menu. On April 15,...
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Configuring SQL Server 2012 Always On Lab- Part 1
This is a long overdue topic that I have wanted to cover for a couple of years and have finally got a chance to setup for a lab environment. I wanted to expand upon Brent Ozar’s article: How to Set Up...
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Configuring SQL Server 2012 Always On Lab- Part 2
In my last article I talked about setting a lab environment for a SQL Server 2012 AlwaysOn Availability Group. This is the second of a 4 part series that covers the entire process. Initial Setup Domain...
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Configuring SQL Server 2012 Always On Lab- Part 3
In my last article I talked about setting a domain for my lab environment for a SQL Server 2012 AlwaysOn Availability Group. This is the third of a 4 part series that covers the entire process. Initial...
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Configuring SQL Server 2012 Always On Lab- Part 4
In my last article I talked about setting a domain for my lab environment for a SQL Server 2012 AlwaysOn Availability Group. This is the last article of a 4 part series that covers the entire process....
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How TO: Create SQL Central Management Server and Server Group
One of the cool things that was added a few years back was the Central Management Servers feature. It was introduced in the Standard and Enterprise editions of SQL Server 2008. This feature helps DBAs...
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How to Fix: 0x800F0906 and 0x800F081F Error Messages while installing .NET...
Windows 8/8.1 is one of the newer Microsoft Operating systems and it comes built-in with the .NET 4.5 framework. However, there are many 3rd party software programs which still require .NET Framework...
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Cannot connect to WMI provider. You do not have permission or the server is...
Recently, I had an issue where I installed SQL server with the default users to start the services. Later when I tried to change the service accounts to my active directory accounts, I got the...
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Moving the System Databases in SQL Server 2008R2
One of the more common tasks you will encounter in moving a system or user database from one physical location to another location. For example, Microsoft recommends that we place our backups, data...
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How to: Download files with Internet Explorer 11
A lot of people are dealing with the progressive nature of Microsoft, where products are being either introduced or updated (on average) every three years. It is both a blessing and a pain in the butt...
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How to: Move SQL Databases (User)
This is an article that I have been meaning to write for a while and I just got motivated writing it after reading Erik Darling‘s article Moving Databases with ALTER DATABASE. I wrote my rough draft in...
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How to: Move SQL Databases (System)
This is the second article about moving system databases and I just got motivated writing it after reading Erik Darling‘s article Moving Databases with ALTER DATABASE. I wrote my rough draft in an...
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FIX: SQL Server Management Studio and 4k Monitors
With the latest releases of Intel processors and especially starting with the 4th generation (“Haswell” processors) to the latest 6th generation (“Skylake” processors) that are shipping with graphic...
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SQL Saturday #511 (Redmond)
One of the things I really look forward to recently is SQL Saturday as it is a day where I can both learn and talk with others about my passion with Microsoft SQL Server. The latest SQL Saturday #511...
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SQL Saturday #493 (Silicon Valley)
I have been really lucky the past two weeks as I was able to attend two separate SQL Saturday events back to back. For me, it is a day where I can both learn and talk with others about my passion with...
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