spid in Killed/Rollback cannot kill
We come across a situation where we have to kill one spid which was running for quite some time, so...
2011-12-17
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Vinay Thakur
Day 30: More Fatal Errors and BUGs
Day 30 More Fatal Errors and BUGs
For sql server 2000 and earlier you may get 5242 and 5243 corruption in...
2011-11-30
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Download: Troubleshooting a day – Nov 2011
As I did for powershell a day Series Blog April 2011, consolidated the all months blog into one pdf file here....
2011-11-30
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Day 2: Log file grown high cannot shrink log file.(available size in – negative)
Description:-
Yesterday, we discussed what happen when tempdb data file grown very high, now what if log file of any user...
2011-11-29
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Day 29: Fatal Errors 823, 824, 825, 832, OS error 23
Day 29: Fatal Errors 823, 824, 825, 832, OS error 23
Error 823: IO error OS cannot read the data
Error: 823,...
2011-11-29
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Day 28: Linked server errors
This post was published to Vinay Thakur – Sql Server DBA at 5:05:51 PM 11/25/2011 Day 28: Linked server errors Linked...
2011-11-28
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TransactionLog Internals
Transaction Log : >> Transaction log is tracks transaction on that database. >> There should be at least one transaction log (ldf) file...
2011-06-22
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Difference between Checkpoint and LazyWriter
Was thinking about to write this blog for quite some time. CheckPoint Lazy Writer 1. Flush dirty pages to Disk...
2011-06-20
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Difference between Checkpoint and LazyWritter
Was thinking about to write this blog for quite some time. CheckPoint Lazy Writer 1. Flush dirty pages to Disk...
2011-06-20
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How Query execute
*This is my Opinion Whenever you execute any query…. Everything will be on Memory unless data is not available from...
2011-06-10
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Blogs
Advice I Like: Pyramid Schemes
By Steve Jones
If someone is trying to convince you it’s not a pyramid scheme, it’s a...
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...
Forums
Database file shrink issue.
Hi experts, I have a 3+ TB database on a 2019 sql server which...
The North Star for the Year
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Multiple Escape Characters
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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