Introduction As you may know, in the early days of SQL Server Clustering, Microsoft advised to provide each clustered SQL Server instance with its own Microsoft Distributed Transaction Coordinator (MSDTC) resource. Since SQL Server 2012 this advice has been withdrawn. Microsoft now recommends to provide your instance with its own MSDTC resource, once you notice the […]
2025-04-04
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Intro In 2008 I wrote an article called “Scope: The drastic caveat with Logon Triggers.” Ever since, we have been using Event Notifications to capture logins for our SQL Server instances. Issues were only very rare, usually on servers that had an extreme load of many connections. In such a case, we stopped this continuous monitoring and […]
2021-10-29
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Howto restore master database on a Clustered SQL Server 2019 Instance
2021-04-08
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Obscure impact of switch EnforceScriptingOptions to scripting a SQL Server database.
2014-12-08
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Instant file initialization also has its advantages when you restore a SQLServer database. This article will show you why.
2012-05-21
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Why should any SQLserver administrator, DBA, or Developer be interested in Powershell? Johan Bijens presents a few reasons today.
2011-12-06
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To see the frequency of alerts in use, you can reset their fire count.
Restart count from zero for all alerts using the propre stored procedures.
2009-12-22 (first published: 2003-01-14)
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2009-08-03
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In this article, Johan Bijnens shows how logon triggers can bite you in the back.
2008-12-15
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