SQL Server 2012

SQL Server 2012 SP3 CU2

March 22nd, 2016

Microsoft has released Cumulative Update 2 for SQL Server 2012 SP3.This cumulative update has 21 fixes.

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SQL Server 2012 SP2 CU 11

March 22nd, 2016

Microsoft has released Cumulative Update 11 for SQL Server 2012 SP2.This cumulative update has 14 fixes.

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SQL Server 2012 SP3 CU1

March 1st, 2016

Microsoft has released Cumulative Update 1 for SQL Server 2012 SP3.

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SQL Server 2012 SP2 CU8

September 27th, 2015

Microsoft has released Cumulative Update 8 for SQL Server 2012 SP2. This cumulative update does contain the fixes released in the recent security bulletin.

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SQL Server 2012 SP2 CU7

July 20th, 2015

Microsoft has released Cumulative Update 7 for SQL Server 2012 SP2. This cumulative update does contain the fixes released in the recent security bulletin.

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SQL Server Support for SysPrep

June 17th, 2014

Sysprep was first supported with SQL Server 2008 R2 to help with your raid deployment of SQL Server environments. With the release of SQL Server 2014 improved support is available for SQL Server installations via Sysprep.

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AlwaysOn Availability Groups: What not to do when adding databases

April 6th, 2014

SQL Server's AlwaysOn Availability Groups provide a very resilient way of providing High-availability for SQL Server databases, but there are inevitable limits to their capacity. How many database can you reasonable add? it depends on the resources available and the workload, but you can come up with a reasonable estimate as Warwick explains

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My Journey to becoming a Microsoft Certified Solutions Master

October 4th, 2013

In this post I am going to take you through my journey to becoming a Microsoft Certified Solutions Master.

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Expanding AlwaysOn Availability Groups with Replication Subscribers

January 31st, 2013

SQL Server 2012 AlwaysOn Availability Groups provide a high-availability and disaster-recovery solution for you SQL Server 2012 environments. Replication has been around in SQL Server for quite some time and allows you to scale out your environment. Warwick Rudd explains how to join these technologies together.

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Expanding AlwaysOn Availability Groups with Replication Publishers

January 30th, 2013

SQL Server 2012 AlwaysOn Availability Groups provide a high-availability and disaster-recovery solution for you SQL Server 2012 environments. Replication has been around in SQL Server for quite some time and allows you to scale out your environment. Warwick Rudd explains how to join these technologies together.

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SQL Server 2012 : Availability Groups Creation Error

July 19th, 2012

SQL Server 2012 AlwaysOn Availability Groups can be pretty easy to create and configure but unless you have designed your environment you may hit the following error when trying to create the Availability Group with the Wizard. To find out more read on ……

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SQL Server 2012 Database Mirroring

July 13th, 2012

Database Mirroring was first introduced in SQL Server 2005. This technology is still available as a viable option to meet your High Availability or Disaster Recovery requirements.

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Hi, I'm Warwick Rudd, I am a Microsoft Data Platform MVP as well as a Microsoft Certified Master working as the Principal Consultant here at SQL Masters Consulting.
In my blog I will look at all things SQL Server as well as some things outside of the SQL Server relm but hopefully you will find them helpful and interesting.

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