Redeemed by Jesus Christ. Fascinated with tech.
I recently purchased a new HomePod mini to extend music into an unreached corner of the house. Having used multiple of the full size ones in the past, I pretty much knew what to expect and didn't give setup a second thought. Things went pretty according to plan at first, with the usual Apple magic... Continue Reading →
Background Everyone knows that it's a good idea to regularly run integrity checks on your databases (you are doing that right?). What may be less obvious is that it's generally recommended with AlwaysOn Availability Groups to run it on the secondary as well as the primary. That's because, even though it's the same database being... Continue Reading →
The Problem I encountered an issue lately where one particular service account kept losing access on a development instance. Since the login and user were present I went to one of the usual culprits, orphaned users. I ran the following query, and sure enough the account was orphaned. This is easily fixed using T-SQL: USE... Continue Reading →
In This Article TLDR Macs are a pleasant place to spend 40+ hours in your work week, and totally workable for those with Microsoft-centric jobs. Let me give you a jump start on how to make it work. The Background I'm weird. This is a known fact that I've embraced. My family has two minivans... Continue Reading →
The Problem One of the initiatives I've been working toward with my team this year is automating as much of our SQL Server patching as possible. Over time our environment has become increasingly complex, and while Microsoft provides some rich GUI utilities for managing Always On Availability Groups, it becomes difficult to use them efficiently... Continue Reading →
Background My colleague and I were recently looking for ways to improve our production Availabiity Group nodes. These are beefy machines with a large amount of memory, and things like buffer cache scans can be lengthy. In his research, my teammate came across discussions on best practices for the Target Recovery Time setting of databases.... Continue Reading →
I'm so happy to share with you a little project that I've been working on! Growing up, I always had a love for computers and an insatiable desire to learn about them, but there weren't many resources available. It's my passion that children everywhere can learn about computers in a fun and free way. To... Continue Reading →
I was doing some volunteer work recently when it came to my attention that there was a large number of enabled users in their Active Directory environment. This number was far greater than the amount of active employees. In order to address this, we took a simple approach: Export a list of enabled users. Have... Continue Reading →
Keynote is a fantastic tool for putting together slick presentations easily. Unfortunately, if you're making those slides about Azure then you can hit a bit of a snag. Microsoft distributes their icons as SVG files, which are not supported by Keynote. Fear not! We'll have you equipped with PNG's and off to express your artistic... Continue Reading →
Introduction The struggle is real my friends. Everyone seems to want online privacy, or at least be concerned about it. There are a number of sophisticated and easy-to-use tools to help people achieve more of it. Yet it still seems almost impossible to attain any decent level of privacy. Why is that? It's a question... Continue Reading →
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