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How To Deploy Office Web Apps Server 2013

The 4 Steps Of Office Web Apps Server 2013 Installation Office Web Apps provides browser-based versions of Excel, One Note, Word and PowerPoint. It also helps users who access files through SharePoint 2013. The objective of this topic is to(…)

SharePoint Application Server Role, Web Server IIS Role Error

Bypassing SharePoint Server 2013 Prerequisites Installation Error On Windows Server 2016   SYMPTOMS Before running the setup of SharePoint 2013 on Windows Server 2016, the prerequisites as the application server role and the web server role have to(…)

Deploying SQL Server 2019 AGs on K8s with helm charts

This write-up follows my first article about helm chart with SQL Server. This time, I would like to cover the availability groups topic and how to deploy them with helm charts. In fact, to go(…)

Azure SQL Managed instances, Business Critical Tier and high availability

Last blog of this year 2018 with SQL databases and Cloud Azure and this is not trivial choice. <Speculation mode> I would say year 2019 could be important for all stakeholders. Cloud transformation has begun in many forms at customer(…)

Deploying SQL Server on K8s with Helm charts

During the last DockerCon EU in Barcelona, I heard a lot about Helm with K8s architectures. It was also a good opportunity to write about it after attending to this conference. In a nutshell, Helm(…)

First immersion in the Docker Conference EU 2018

In short, a very interesting event for both Devs and Ops. Every day was organized around workshops, hands-on-labs sessions and Hallway tracks. My colleague Mehdi Bada and I tried to attend as much sessions as possible but obviously it was(…)

SQL Server 2019 CTP 2.1 – A replacement of DBCC PAGE command?

Did you ever use the famous DBCC PAGE command? Folks who are interested in digging further to the SQL Server storage already use it for a while. We also use it during our SQL Server performance(…)

Is there too much memory for my SQL Server instance?

Is there too much memory for my SQL Server instance? This is definitely an uncommon question I had to deal with of my customers a couple of weeks ago. Usually DBAs complain when they don’t have enough memory for environments they have(…)

SQL Server 2019 availability groups – Introduction to R/W redirection

writeThis is a second write-up about SQL Server 2019 CTP2.0 and availability group new features. This time the interesting one is about READRWRITE redirection capabilities. A couple of months ago, I wrote about SQL Server 2017 and(…)

SQL Server availability groups, SQL Browser and Shared Memory considerations

Few weeks ago, my colleagues and me discussed availability groups and network considerations for one of our customers including disabling SQL Browser service and shared memory protocol. The point was disabling both features may lead to unexpected behaviors when creating(…)