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
797 reads
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
1,437 reads
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
1,280 reads
"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
688 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
2,144 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
875 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
888 reads
Blogs
T-SQL Tuesday #193 – Notes to my past self and from my future self
By DataOnWheels
It has been a while since my last T-SQL Tuesday blog. When I saw...
T-SQL Tuesday #193 – Notes to past and future me
The last T-SQL Tuesday of the year is hosted by my good friend Mike...
A Note and a Message: T-SQL Tuesday #193
By Steve Jones
This month Mike Walsh hosts T-SQL Tuesday. It’s been quite some time since he...
Forums
cant process ssas db on vm - error says source is encrypted and other things
hi i get the error you see below when trying to process my AR...
This doesn't make sense to me - making me crazy - er
Hi So I have the below select query that won't return results if I...
Catalog max connection pool size: 100
Seeing this message repeated every 10 seconds in the RSHostingService_yyyy_mm_dd_hh_mm_ss.log file. Can anyone advise:...
Question of the Day
Putting the Player with the Number
In SQL Server 2025, what does this return?
DECLARE @player varchar(20) = 'Bo Nix', @num VARCHAR = '10' SELECT @player || @numSee possible answers