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Thoughts On Microsoft’s Azure Outage Post-Mortem

Last Updated September 10, 2018

Last week, Azure suffered a day-long outage. One of the services involved was Visual Studio Team Services (aka Azure DevOps), and that team just published their outage postmortem. The postmortem is FANTASTIC: open, honest (at least it reads that way), and goes into enough technical detail to satisfy a wide variety of readers from managers…

SQL Server Setup Feature List Changes 2008-2017

Last Updated May 24, 2018

Brent Ozar

SQL Server

If you happen to install several SQL Servers in a row, you’ll notice differences from over the years in the feature list. SQL Server 2008 Ah, a simpler time. When you got to the feature selection screen, here were your choices: SQL Server 2008 feature selection In case you’ve forgotten, Business Intelligence Development Studio (BIDS)…