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The Lifeblood Across The Wire

Five Things That You Need To Consider When Deploying SQL Server Availability Group Replicas in a Disaster Recovery Site - Part 3

SQL Server Availability Groups have been around for a while. But not a lot of organizations have implemented them yet mainly because they haven’t upgraded their database platforms to SQL Server 2012/2014. As more and more organizations move away from older versions and into the newer ones, Availability Groups will become much more common. And […]

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Video: SQL Server 2012/2014 Reporting Services in SharePoint-Integrated Mode

In a previous blog post, I covered how you can provide high availability for SQL Server Reporting Services workloads. One of those options is thru SharePoint’s scale-out implementation. While this topic is primarily for integrating SQL Server Reporting Services with SharePoint 2013, it helps us SQL Server professionals understand the difference in the architecture between native […]

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Much Ado About DNS

Five Things That You Need To Consider When Deploying SQL Server Availability Group Replicas in a Disaster Recovery Site - Part 2

SQL Server Availability Groups have been around for a while. But not a lot of organizations have implemented them yet mainly because they haven’t upgraded their database platforms to SQL Server 2012/2014. As more and more organizations move away from older versions and into the newer ones, Availability Groups will become much more common. And […]

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Why Active Directory Domain Services Authentication Matters

Five Things That You Need To Consider When Deploying SQL Server Availability Group Replicas in a Disaster Recovery Site - Part 1

SQL Server Availability Groups have been around for a while. But not a lot of organizations have implemented them yet mainly because they haven’t upgraded their database platforms to SQL Server 2012/2014. As more and more organizations move away from older versions and into the newer ones, Availability Groups will become much more common. And […]

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The Unplayable Piano

A story was told about then Germany’s youngest concert promoter who was organizing a jazz piano concert. After all the promotions and logistics have been considered, the day of the concert came. The featured artist arrived at the opera house venue with much disappointment. The staff at the venue misunderstood some of the instructions about the […]