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Use Power BI to Forecast Server Capacity
Posted by Rob Risetto on February 22, 2016

Microsoft recently announced the Power View forecasting feature which is available when running Power View in HTML 5 format through their Power BI for Office 365 cloud offering. For those that don’t know, the Power BI for Office 365 official description is …

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Press Release: Relational Database Services (SQLRDS) Now Available
Posted by Rob Risetto on February 10, 2016

DBInsight today has announced the release of their new SQL Server Relational Database Services (SQLRDS) for cloud based and on-premise SQL Server environments.

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VMware Snapshot Kills Availability Group Cluster
Posted by Rob Risetto on January 20, 2016

Recently I was requested to investigate the Cluster failures underlying a SQL Server 2012 Always On Availability Group. The topology was a two node Windows 2012 cluster with a file share tie breaker as part of the Majority Node and File share Quorum model. The cluster servers were VMware 5.1 Guests and SQL Server 2012 Enterprise was the

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