Common Mistakes in SQL Server – Part 1
In this series of articles I will be sharing the common mistakes in SQL Server. I am certain that this is going to be very interesting read, here is...
2023-09-18
13 reads
Hemantgiri
- Interests: Reading,Writing,Painting
- Twitter: @https://twitter.com/hemantgirig
- Website: https://www.sqlservercitation.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hemantgirisgoswami/
SQL Server Security Checklist
In this article I will share the Microsoft SQL Server Security Checklist that I have used for many of my clients to help them achieve PCI compliance. This can...
2023-09-11
273 reads
The Cloud or On-Premise – Is it a go or no go?
I have seen this question many a time that people have asked “The Cloud or On-Premise – is it a go or no go?”. This is something that has...
2022-03-17
6 reads
Cluster Service Failed To Bring Clustered Role Online Or Offline
This weekend I was working, as usual, holding the on-call and listening to my favorite singer Kishor Kumar. And, my friend Rakesh call me in jeopardy. One of his...
2022-02-18
50 reads
Call for Speaker Surat Tech Talks 2022
Last year, September 2020 we had organized 1st yearly event and we named it Surat Tech Talk. That event was a great success. This year, we are organizing this...
2021-12-14
4 reads
Data Platform MVP
I have a good news to share with you all. This year, 1st of August 2021 I have received an email that surprised me. The email reads that I...
2021-12-03
4 reads
SQL Server Agent failed to update history
Recently I have faced a very interesting issue. A good friend of mine and my batchmate Rakesh called me this morning. He told me that one of his customers...
2021-07-27
12 reads
How to fix replication issue cannot truncate table
I have the privilege to work on Saturday and Sunday, holding a pager during my shift hours. I get most of the blog ideas during this stint. Today’s post...
2020-11-21
12 reads
Recovery Unit InitPersistentVersionStore Failed
As usual, I was working on my weekend on-call and I have had an alert. Our monitoring system has reported a message printed from the error log. I was...
2020-07-14
21 reads
Recover Database using Stellar Repair for MS SQL
One of my friends client has got an issue with his SQL Server. A weekly database integrity check has reported a corruption for one of his databases. The corruption...
2019-05-28
17 reads
Blogs
Using Prompt AI for a Travel Data Analysis
By Steve Jones
I was looking back at my year and decided to see if SQL Prompt...
FinOps for Kubernetes: Leveraging OpenCost, KubeGreen, and Kubecost for Cost Efficiency
In the era of cloud-native applications, Kubernetes has become the default standard platform for...
2025 Wrapped for Steve
By Steve Jones
I’ve often done some analysis of my year in different ways. Last year I...
Forums
The North Star for the Year
Comments posted to this topic are about the item The North Star for the...
Multiple Escape Characters
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Multiple Escape Characters
reaching ftp thru winscp but erroring in ssis ftp task connection
Hi, below i show various results trying to reach our ftp site (a globalscape...
Question of the Day
Multiple Escape Characters
In SQL Server 2025, I run this code (in a database with the appropriate collation):
SELECT UNISTR('%*3041%*308A%*304C%*3068 and good night', '%*') AS 'A Classic';
What is returned? See possible answers