Years ago when I switched from Windows to Mac, people have told me regularily that I’m crazy. How can I be that stupid to work on MacOS when I’m dependent on SQL Server? In my case it wasn’t that terrible, because my main work is about content creation (writing blog ...

I’m a big believer in the SDDC (Software Defined Data Center), especially on the VMware platform. VMware provides you for a SDDC the following products/offerings: VMware ESXi Hypervisor for CPU and Memory Virtualization VMware vSAN for Storage Virtualization VMware NSX-T for Network Virtualization As you already know from my previous ...

Today I want to talk about a specific kind of index in SQL Server: Filtered Indexes, which were introduced back with SQL Server 2008 – so already very long time ago. A Filtered Index is a traditional Non-Clustered Index, which includes a Filter Predicate that restricts the rows that are ...

As you might know from my Home Lab setup, I’m a big believer and fan of VMware vSAN, which is a Software-Defined Storage solution. Therefore I want to show you in today’s blog posting a step-by-step guide how you can create a vSAN based vSphere Cluster. For a basic understanding ...

Todays blog posting is a little bit more personal than technical. It seems that I don’t have that much luck this year, because since Sunday evening I have a broken right foot 🙁 I don’t want to go into the details about how it happened, but in the first step ...