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Azure SQL Managed Instance Next-Gen: Bring on the IOPS
SQL Server 2025 Developer Edition – One size fits all
Merry Christmas
Stop Being Surprised by Your Azure Bill: Use Budgets
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Azure VPN – Point to Site IP Addresses

John Morehouse January 12, 2018 2 comments

Mobile Azure

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Building a Personal VPN Azure Solution

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Azure SQL Managed Instance Next-Gen: Bring on the IOPS

John Morehouse Mar 4, 2022 1
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SQL Server 2025 Developer Edition – One size fits all

John Morehouse Mar 4, 2022 1
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Merry Christmas

John Morehouse Mar 4, 2022 1
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Stop Being Surprised by Your Azure Bill: Use Budgets

John Morehouse Mar 4, 2022 1

Secure Travel

On March 4, 2022March 4, 2022 By John Morehouse

Update: This post was originally published on March 8th, 2019 and a lot of things have changed over the last 2-3 years.  Lots of things.  However, ironically, I’m headed off to SQL Bits again for their 2022 Conference and thought it’d be a good time to update this list of […]

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Understanding Volumes vs Storage Pools

On February 18, 2022February 5, 2022 By John Morehouse

In hindsight, I should have done this differently. In a previous post I discussed how I carved up 18TB of storage into various storage pools.  Now that I have the two storage pools, I need to create volumes on top of those pools so that I can start to store […]

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Speaking at SQL Bits 2022

On February 11, 2022February 5, 2022 By John Morehouse

A look at the sessions I’ll be presenting at SQL Bits 2022 in London this year. Excited to return to a great conference and hope to see you there!

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Understanding VMWare Components

On December 10, 2021January 9, 2022 By John Morehouse

Recently I was looking to install VMWare components in my local network of things so that I could gain additional knowledge of how VMWare works.   I have a local Synology DS920+ which can run virtual machines and I have about 18TB of space to play with so I thought […]

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Moving VMWare Virtual Machines to Synology

On September 19, 2021January 5, 2022 By John Morehouse
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One of the reasons that I enjoy having a Synology DS920+ around is that that I can use it to experiment with virtualization. In this experiment, I’m going to move a virtual machine that I configured through VMWare’s Fusion which is running on my Mac laptop. This is just a […]

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For #JohnsDad

On August 17, 2021August 17, 2021 By John Morehouse

Last week, on Wednesday August 11, 2021 at approximately 3:45PM Eastern, my Father left this world.  Much too early.  Covid took my Father from me, my family, and his grandchildren.  He had some underlying issues, but Covid is what pushed him over the edge.   Covid put him on a ventilator […]

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How I carved up 18TB of Storage

On August 13, 2021July 8, 2021 By John Morehouse

In a previous post I told you about how I got a Synology DS920+ on loan to play around with.  The device comes with 4 drive bays so there is a wide range of combinations that you can do in terms of drives. Since this is my first entrance into […]

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How to put a SQL Server Database into Recovery Pending

On July 30, 2021July 8, 2021 By John Morehouse

You might be asking why on earth would you want to get a database into an undesirable state, more specifically into a Recovery Pending state.  Well, in my case, I had a client database that had entered into this state due to a failure of storage.  Thankfully, this database was […]

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John a Microsoft SQL Server DBA, Blogger, Forum Answerer, Friend of Red Gate, Idera ACE, Chapter Leader, International Speaker, VMWare vExpert, Microsoft Data Platform MVP and a bat whisperer.

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