Bad Idea Cowboy Hat: Using a foreign key to prevent updates

When I decided to rip off of Brent Ozar’s (b/t) Bad Idea Jeans series (yes I asked) I decided that ... Continue reading

Moving to a Modern Microsoft Platform

Melbourne Event – Monday 17th June 2019 (Free – including lunch and prizes) PASS, in conjunction with Microsoft, Intel and community leaders are offering free training on Moving to...

Quick Tip – How to fix SQL Server 2017 install error on Ubuntu 18.04: E: Could not get lock /var/lib/dpkg/lock-frontend – open (11: Resource temporarily unavailable)

Problem Recently, when I tried to install SQL Server 2017 (mssql-server package) in Ubuntu 18.04, I encountered the error below: The command that I used to install the mssql-server...

Sysinternals – A Swiss Army Knife for IT Pros

I’m at the Techno Security and Digital Forensics conference in Myrtle Beach again this year. I sat in on a presentation about performing malware analysis. The analyst began with...

To use ALTER DATABASE, the database must be in a writable state in which a checkpoint can be executed. – when moving files on an Availability Group secondary.

Here’s a little error that I stumbled across the other day when trying to migrate the data files of an Availability Group secondary node onto a nice new SAN....

Actual Emails: Will MSOLEDB work for connecting to an Availability Group?

Scenario:
We need to configure an existing legacy application from an external vendor to talk to our new SQL Server 2017 Availability Group, which spans multiple subnets. In the end,...

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Implicit Conversion Insights with XE

Seldom does a DBA have the opportunity to get out in front of infrequent or random errors such as implicit conversions. More often than not, it is the privilege...

Implicit Conversion Insights with XE

Seldom does a DBA have the opportunity to get out in front of infrequent or random errors such as implicit conversions. More often than not, it is the privilege...

Information Measurement with SQL Server Part 4.5: The Squared L2 Family of Distances

By Steve Bolton …………In the last two installments of this series of amateur self-tutorials (apart from the Fisher Information article, which I deliberately published out of order), I introduced...