You’re on the phone to get a technical issue resolved. You checked the service provider website and noticed that their phone support is available 24/7. You dial the direct number, expecting a quick response. Ah, the sound of a live phone operator – not a system generated voice prompt – in less than a minute. […]
As I was reading the news this week, it’s hard to ignore the announcement of General Motors laying off hundreds, if not thousands, of employees in their Michigan-based manufacturing plants. This also has severe impacts in their Ontario-based manufacturing plant in Canada where some of their production work will be moved to Mexico. Some 600+ jobs will […]
I’m sure you’ve seen a lot of status updates on your social media feeds this past Valentine’s Day. Whether you’re searching for a new partner or in an on-going relationship, I’m sure you would agree that the dating phase often sets the tone for your relationship. Now, I don’t claim to be an expert on […]
In part 4 of this series, I talked about how to generate the cluster debug log for digging deeper on what caused the WSFC or the workloads running on top of it to go offline. I also walked you thru the process of getting started with reading the logs. Analyzing the cluster debug log is […]
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. […]