My First Day with Windows 8
So I’ve taken the plunge and installed Windows 8 Client Preview on one of my laptops. The install process was pretty simple and straight forward. The installer found my WiFi card so I was able to get everything up and running right out of the box. The next thing to do was to install SQL […]
Windows 8 does have a Start Menu, sort of
Everyone says that Windows 8 doesn’t have a start menu, and it’s true there’s no Start Button on the task bar like in the last several versions of Windows. However if you press <Windows>+W you’ll get a sort of start menu. There’s an Apps button on that menu, which when pressed will give you the […]
SQL Saturday 120 Storage and Virtualization Pre-Con
Interested in my SQL Bits pre-con, but you just can’t make it out to London for SQL Bits? Have I got a deal for you. It has just been announced that I will be giving my Storage and Virtualization pre-con at SQL Saturday 120 on March 23rd, 2012. SQL Saturday is bringing you this pre-con […]
AlwaysOn and Error 41006 (and error 41158)
When setting up AlwaysOn Availability Groups you may receive Error 41158 which references error 41006 when you attempt to join the the replica to the Availability Group. What these errors in a nut shell mean is that it ain’t going to work with your current configuration. Assuming that you ran through your SQL Server installation […]