Getting around annoying outbound firewall rules at venues when presenting.

Presentations that are given are user groups, events, etc. often require demos.  Sometimes those demos are to large or complex to run on a laptop.  To get around this problem people will use Azure for their demos.  Doing this, depending on the demo, requires using RDP to connect to the VM in Azure so that…

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How can you tell how many NUMA nodes your SQL Server has?

Back in the good old days (the late 1990s) you didn’t need to worry about things like NUMA unless you were running the top 0.001% of workloads. Today however even a fairly small server can have multiple NUMA nodes. NUMA configurations aren’t just for physical SQL Servers either. Virtual Machines can have NUMA configurations as…

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Move on Brogrammers, your comments aren’t welcome anywhere.

Recently Jen McCown received a speaker evaluation form from a SQL Saturday attendee.  Now normally this wouldn’t be a blog worthy event as this happens several times a year as there are easily 100 SQL Saturday’s a year..  The reason that this speaker evaluation form is blog worthy is due to the comment which was left. The…

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