Last week RC0 for SQL Server 2012 was released. If you missed it you can find it here: http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=28145 . One area where you will find improvements or changes is AlwaysOn Availability Groups. In this post I will...

A couple of weeks ago I got the result from my SQL 2008 MCM Lab exam and I failed. I have been working with SQL Server for almost 12 years. I have been a developer, dba and architect and last year I joined Microsoft to become a Premier Field Engineer...

Denali is packed with new features. A lot of features evolve around the engine, BI, Data Quality but there are also new features added to the installation process. In a previous post I already mentioned managed service accounts and in this post I will...

With the freshly released SQL Server 2012 we can put availability groups to live. You have seen all the demo's and now you are ready to get things going in your own datacenter. At this point you might get to a few surprises. One of these might be to get...

As a Premier Field Engineer I get into a different challenge every week. These challenges can be anything; performance issues, architecture review or migration scenarios. If I'm at a customer site it is not always possible (or recommended) to test my...