SQL Connectivity issues: A guided walk through
The SQL Tiger Team (t) has recently put out a guided walkthrough for SQL Connectivity issues.
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Walk Through
If you look...
2017-02-06
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Kenneth Fisher
My SQL logins don’t work. Again.
My recent post on why SQL logins aren’t working has generated a couple of follow up posts. The first one...
2017-02-02 (first published: 2017-01-25)
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Changing what SSMS opens on startup
When you open SSMS a connection window automatically comes up. Then once you pick your server, connection type, username and...
2017-02-01
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Azure quick start
In case you hadn’t noticed, I love built in help. DBCC HELP, the script button in SSMS, even BOL. Well...
2017-01-30
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Creating a connect entry.
I recently wrote a blog about how to tell why your SQL login isn’t working. There were a lot of...
2017-01-30 (first published: 2017-01-23)
1,115 reads
What is COPY_ONLY?
You’ll frequently hear that you should add the COPY_ONLY clause when taking an ad-hoc full backup to avoid messing up...
2017-01-19 (first published: 2017-01-16)
2,526 reads
Lead Blocker
Blocking is just part of life I’m afraid. Because we have locks (and yes we have to have them, and...
2017-01-18
2,954 reads
A detailed view into your Azure resources
I’ve been studying Azure recently and came across a really interesting Azure site.
resources.azure.com
To give you an idea why I find...
2017-01-13 (first published: 2017-01-05)
1,455 reads
Why won’t my SQL Logins work?
I recently had an interesting time getting the SQL Auth logins on a new instance working. I was doing a...
2017-01-12
811 reads
Connect suggestion to add included columns to sp_helpindex
I’m a big fan of the sp_help system stored procedures, which is why I’ve been a bit disappointed that the...
2017-01-10
461 reads
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The New Database CheckDB
I run this code:
create database experiment
go
use Experiment
go
select DATABASEPROPERTYEX('Experiment', 'LastGoodCheckDbTime')
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