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 Since SQL Server 2012 this advice has been withdrawn.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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In this article, Johan Bijnens shows how logon triggers can bite you in the back.
2008-12-15
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A quick workaround from a longtime community member that helps you prevent the LF/CR from being lost if you copy scripts from the code tags in your posts.
2007-11-27
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The Sarbanes-Oxley act has changed many IT jobs, usually requiring more work and documentation. Johan Bijnens brings us a list of some things his team has had to do to comply with SOX regulations.
2007-10-02
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One limitation of SQLAgent is that granularity to which you can schedule jobs: every minute. Sometimes there are things that you would like to happen more frequently, like alerting. Johan Bijnens brings us a technique for getting your SQL Agent to respond to alerts in as little as every 10 seconds.
2007-08-16
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By Steve Jones
Rodney Kidd took some great shots of the keynote and published an album here:...
By Brian Kelley
here is the compiled video of the Red Teaming course Microsoft put together.
Day 2 kicked off with Matt Garman’s keynote, and he opened with a quote...
Hi all, Has anyone encountered an issue whereby using a distributed availability group...
hi, i have seen in my server sometimes some SPIDs get stuck. so we...
Recently I was asked to investigate the update statistics process on a particular database....
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