Cosmos DB is a powerful, fully-managed, globally distributed, and multi-model database service provided by Microsoft Azure. One of its key features is the ability to create and execute stored...
2023-01-23 (first published: 2023-01-13)
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Problem Recently, when I tried to install SQL Server 2017 (mssql-server package) in Ubuntu 18.04, I encountered the error below: The command that I used to install the mssql-server...
2019-06-06 (first published: 2019-05-20)
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Problem Today, I have a request to create a new database on two-node SQL Server 2016 failover cluster instance, which is in an active/passive configuration. I connected to the...
2019-05-28 (first published: 2019-05-14)
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Problem Recently, when I tried to install SQL Server 2017 (mssql-server package) in Ubuntu 18.04, I encountered the error below: The command that I used to install the mssql-server...
2019-05-20
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Problem Today, I have a request to create a new database on two-node SQL Server 2016 failover cluster instance, which is in an active/passive configuration. I connected to the...
2019-05-14
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To change the Integration Services Catalog (SSISDB) database Master Key encryption password, run the following Transact-SQL statement:
USE [SSISDB];
GO
OPEN MASTER KEY...
2017-09-19
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To change the Integration Services Catalog (SSISDB) database Master Key encryption password, run the following Transact-SQL statement: In the above Transact-SQL fragment, we first open the Integration Services Catalog...
2017-09-19
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Today, I was called in the early hours because the transaction log of one of the SQL Server 2016 database...
2017-08-20
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Today, I was called in the early hours because the transaction log of one of the SQL Server 2016 database was full. I logged onto the SQL server instance...
2017-08-20
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Commercial database systems like SQL server have many recovery mechanisms to restore data hardware or software failure. Checkpoints are part...
2015-01-26
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A nightly load into sales_fact fails. Ask an orchestrating agent to break down the...
By Steve Jones
It’s been some time since I provided a car update, so I decided to...
By James Serra
An architecture scenario Imagine separate Sales, Finance, Shared Data, and Executive Analytics workspaces. Sales...
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In SQL Server 2025, I have a database with a Database Masker Key (DMK). I want to back up this key and keep a copy offline. When do I have to open this key before running the backup?
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