Since I haven't posted here in awhile, I thought I would share some notes from Season 2 of my Franchise in Madden 16. -- I went undefeated, mostly through beating teams into submission with my West Coast offense and Isaiah Crowell, who arguably had the greatest season of any running back in the history of…
Don’t Forget Those Active Directory Objects
A couple of months back, I set up a SQL Server failover cluster for a customer. The customer thought everything was prepared for installation, but we missed a couple of early steps, and when I went to install SQL Server, I ran into some issues around missing Active Directory objects. Two Active Directory Computer objects…
Two Disks That Cannot Be Distinguished
A couple of months back, I worked on setting up a SQL Server failover cluster for a customer. While preparing for installation, I ran the Windows cluster validation check and got the following error (obfuscating certain details): Two disks have been found on node NODE that cannot be distinguished from one another. The disks involved…
TriPASS Leadership Plans
Just about a month ago, I mentioned that I am now the chapter leader of the Triangle Area SQL Server User Group (TriPASS). I don’t plan to make any drastic changes to the way we do things at TriPASS, as I think we’ve got a pretty good thing going. We have a membership roster of…
SQL Server 2014 SP1 CU3 In-Memory OLTP Bug Fix
Microsoft has released a bug fix for in-memory OLTP with SQL Server 2014 SP1 Cumulative Update 3. This is the same bug I mentioned in a couple of blog posts back in June and July. The bug was fixed in the SQL Server 2016 CTP, but I'm happy that Microsoft decided to back-port this fix to…
Buffalo At 3-3
This has been a frustrating start to the season for the Bills. Last time around, I was somewhat optimistic. This time around, I’m somewhat pessimistic. Here are my most recent set of notes and thoughts after a pummeling at the hands of the Cincinnati Bengals: Tyrod Taylor is still looking good. He sat out in…
SQL Saturday Raleigh Event Evaluation Review
Last week was SQL Saturday Raleigh. I put together my thoughts on the event, but now the event evaluations have come in. We had eight evaluations in total, so I’m pretty sure that’s nowhere near a representative sample, but it’s what I’ve got. Overall, those evals gave the event a score of 4.5 out of…
HDInsight Emulator And Accounts With Spaces
It turns out that the HDInsight emulator does not like it when your Windows account has a space in it. What happens is that you'll end up getting "Error 1067: The process terminated unexpectedly" when you try to start up services. There is a good thread which gets to the root of the problem. In…
Off To SQL Saturday Charlotte
Tomorrow, I will be in Charlotte for SQL Saturday Charlotte. My session will take place at 11:30 AM, and the topic is Hadoop. I'm looking forward to the event.
With A Voice For Silent Movies
Carlos Chacon at SQL Data Partners interviewed me while I was down at SQL Saturday Pittsburgh. We talked about the APPLY operator, based off of my presentation. The podcast went very well---he edited it well enough to make me sound like I knew what I was doing. If I had the chance to do it over,…
36 Chambers - The Legendary Journeys: Execution to the max! 