DR: SQL installed on new path, master restored, and SQL can't find resource database or start jobs!?!
If you ever need to perform a DR install of SQL to a new path and then restore the system...
2012-11-12
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Geographic Failover/Redundancy (and DR)
Today we await the arrival of a 100 year storm that threatens to surge New York harbor and the Long...
2012-10-29
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[off topic] I crossed a milestone today
Hey everyone,
I have been nearing this goal for some time (a few times coming within fractions) so this is somewhat...
2012-10-26
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SQL won't start because there's not enough space to create TEMPDB
SQL Server will not start.
You open up the ERRORLOG (...which I would only do with a text editor like gVim...
2012-10-25
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perfcollect
This is one of my most closely held DBA secrets.
Do you use PAL? You should.
Clint Huffman is a golden god...
2012-10-24
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"malpractice" in IT?
Through most of my career, I believed that at some point I would be able to learn enough and master...
2012-10-23
687 reads
Red Gate log shipping
Log shipping is great.
It's basically the act of beginning a restore with no recovery, and then restoring logs (with no...
2012-10-22
2,142 reads
this is what I do when I install SQL. How about you?
Whenever I install a standalone SQL instance (installing on a failover cluster adds a few more steps) on a x64...
2012-10-19
874 reads
UDL files with TRUSTED authentication - a security risk?
Hi everyone,
So the other day on twitter in #sqlhelp and privately with some friends at Microsoft and elsewhere I had...
2012-10-18
886 reads
Blogs
T-SQL Tuesday #191 Round Up
By Steve Jones
I hosted this month, late as it turns out, but we still had a...
Come See Me at the PASS Data Community Summit
By Brian Kelley
I'm speaking on Quantum Computing at the PASS Data Community Summit. It's scheduled for...
SQL Clone at Scale with Striped Backups
By Steve Jones
I had a customer recently reach out to ask if SQL Clone would work...
Forums
Create an HTML Report on the Status of SQL Server Agent Jobs
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Create an HTML Report on...
Managing unused indexes
While doing some housekeeping activity on several old but large production databases, I come...
Cloud Performance Considerations
How important to SQL Server is the speed of the SSD and network latency?...
Question of the Day
Striped Backup File Limits
In SQL Server 2022, how many backup files can I have in a striped backup?
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