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  • January 8, 2026

    Post-quantum key exchange – Insurance policy for your packets

    AWS recently added support for Post-Quantum Key Exchange for TLS in Application Load Balancer (ALB) and Network Load Balancer(NLB). And, our good friend S3 now supports post-quantum TLS key exchange…


  • December 11, 2025

    Why Optimize CPU for RDS SQL Server is a game changer

    One feature that I have been waiting for years! The new announcement around optimize CPU for RDS SQL Server is a game changer because it lets you right‑size vCPUs for…


  • December 3, 2025

    What’s New at AWS re:Invent 2025 – Day2 Highlights

    Day 2 kicked off with Matt Garman’s keynote, and he opened with a quote that instantly stood out as my favorite of the day “Is it possible? …..Why not! “…


  • December 2, 2025

    What’s New at AWS re:Invent 2025 – Day 1 Highlights

    Day 1 is an absolute thrill at re:Invent! I normally dedicate this dynamic day to connect with new faces, explore the bustling expo hall, engage with customers and service team…


  • December 8, 2021

    Amazon RDS Custom for SQL Server – A new beginning

    Imagine getting SA (sysadmin) access to your RDS SQL Server Instance! Well, that was not possible in the past, but during AWS re:Invent 2021, Amazon RDS Custom for SQL Server…


  • February 22, 2018

    SQL Server 2017 in a Docker Container running on a Mac – Tips and Tricks

    I started using a MacBook Pro at work, and the very first thing I did was configure SQL Server 2017 running on a docker container, and run it locally within…


  • May 9, 2017

    SQL Server 2017 running on Windows Containers!

    One of the questions which I normally get all the time whenever I talk about SQL Server and Docker is – Why you want to run SQL Server on containers?…


  • March 13, 2017

    Google Cloud Spanner – Next big thing in the database world?

    Last month Google announced the public beta for Cloud Spanner, and I would like to share few details around this since it’s a big news! So, what exactly is Cloud…


  • December 22, 2016

    Windows Server 2016 and SQL Server 2016 – A match made in heaven!

    For all these years Windows Server 2016 is the Windows version I was waiting for, and this blog post will explain why I’m super excited about this! With Windows Server 2016, you can…


  • November 7, 2016

    When disks have different sector sizes for primary and secondary replica log files in an AlwaysOn Availability Group Config

    Recently I was analyzing a stress test result for an AG configuration, and as usual I was reading to SQL error logs to see if there is anything out of normal…


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