Vivek Sanil [MSFT] - SQL Server Premier Field Engineer (PFE)

Answer: Yes. Why were the performance counters changed in SQL 2012?: The Memory Manager component of SQLOS was redesigned in SQL Server 2012 and hence some perfmon counters have been changed accordingly. If you have been using the Free Pages performance...

The Answer is yes. You will need SQL 2012 SP1 to do this. SQL2012 SP1 was announced at the SQL Pass conference last week (Nov 7th). How: The SQL Server product team will be publishing the steps in the "Cross-Cluster Migration of AlwaysOn Availability...

After the release of Windows 2012, I get questions like what is the benefit of installing SQL 2012 on windows 2012 compared to installing it on Windows 2008 R2. Microsoft recently released the following KB article which answers some of the questions around...

While working with customers, I get quite a few questions on Resource database. Hence I thought about answering some of them in this blog. Some of the questions that I get: Can I access it through management studio? Should I backup my Resource database...