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Broken Azure VM

Monday, October 8, 2012
by asalvo

Over the weekend, one of my Azure VMs went down. The first indication was that it showed up in SCOM 2012 (SP 1 Beta) as missing it’s heartbeat. RDP from on premise, and from another VM on the Azure virtual network failed.

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Ten SQL Kindle eBooks for Under $10

Sunday, October 7, 2012
by jsalvo

SQL Azure–Failed to Update because the database is read-only

Friday, October 5, 2012
by asalvo

An error message for one of our many SQL Azure databases was brought to my attention today.

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Managed Service Accounts

Thursday, October 4, 2012
by asalvo

I’ve been working with Managed Service Accounts over the past week. This post is going to be a repository for information pertaining to Managed Service Accounts (MSAs).

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SQL Saturday #149 Minneapolis 2012

Tuesday, October 2, 2012
by jsalvo

This past weekend I attended SQL Saturday #149 in Minneapolis with my husband Adam, my brother Chris and another member of our local PASS chapter.  Adam has his pilot’s license so we flew to Minneapolis the morning of the event.  It was a beautiful and warm fall day – perfect weather for flying!

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