dbachecks and AlwaysOn availability group checks

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When I started my DBA position in my new company, I was looking for a tool that was able to check periodically the SQL Server database environments for several reasons. First, as DBA one of my main concern is about maintaining and keeping the different mssql environments well-configured against an initial standard. It is also worth noting I’m not the only person to interact with databases and anyone in my team, which is member of sysadmin server role as well, is able to change any server-level configuration settings at any moment. In this case, chances are that having environments shifting from our initial standard over the time and my team and I need to keep confident by checking periodically the current mssql environment configurations, be alerting if configuration drifts exist and obviously fix it as faster as possible.

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SQL Server on Linux and new FUA support for XFS filesystem

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I wrote a (dbi services) blog post concerning Linux and SQL Server IO behavior changes before and after SQL Server 2017 CU6. Now, I was looking forward seeing some new improvements with Force Unit Access (FUA) that was implemented with Linux XFS enhancements since the Linux Kernel 4.18.

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