There are a number of key reasons NOT to use Windows Server 2008 R2 for AlwaysOn Availability Groups (AGs), including...

NoSQL and I don't get along. That's not really NoSQL's fault. Nor, frankly, is it mine. Instead, I blame our rocky relationship on NoSQL's fan  club—or developers who blindly assume that NoSQL is the answer to all of the world's problems. It'...

Maybe I’m just getting old, but I’m personally fairly tired of April Fools' Day or, at least, how it gets handled in the technical world. After getting burned a few times (years ago) by forgetting that it was April Fools' Day, I’m now to the po...

I'm hesitant to call this a trick—simply because there's nothing special to it (i.e., it's taking advantage of known/existing editing functionality from within SQL Server Management Studio, or SSMS)—and because I assume most people should know ...