Author's session on SQL Server Contained Availability Groups selected for SQLBits 2026 conference, covering best practices and gotchas.
Explains the benefits of SQL Server contained availability groups for simplifying failover and reducing DBA workload, contrasting them with traditional AGs.
A technical guide on deploying a SQL Managed Instance Availability Group on Azure Arc-enabled Data Services using Kubernetes and the AZDATA CLI.
Explains unexpected 'shakes' or health events in Azure VM Availability Groups, covering CPU, host, and IO contention issues.
Explains Accelerated Database Recovery (ADR) in SQL Server 2019/Azure SQL, a feature designed to drastically reduce transaction rollback and database recovery times.
A technical guide exploring workarounds to update SQL Server statistics on secondary replicas in Availability Groups, including scripts and methods.
Announcement and feature breakdown of SQL Server 2016 general availability, highlighting new security, performance, and edition-specific capabilities.
