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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
38 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
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Blogs
Narrow Task Decomposition in AI Pipeline Agents
A nightly load into sales_fact fails. Ask an orchestrating agent to break down the...
Car Update: August 2026
By Steve Jones
It’s been some time since I provided a car update, so I decided to...
Microsoft Fabric OneLake Shortcuts: When to Use Them and When Not To
By James Serra
An architecture scenario Imagine separate Sales, Finance, Shared Data, and Executive Analytics workspaces. Sales...
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Backing Up a DMK
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