Cody Konior

Exporting configuration data from SQL Sentry

• by Cody-Konior

• Cody Konior

SQL Sentry is a pretty cool monitoring system but there's a downside to having so many knobs to turn:
it's next...

2018-11-07

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Don't go to the PASS Summit speed networking session

• by Cody-Konior

• Cody Konior

Up until now I've been enjoying my first PASS Summit and doing my own light networking.
At breakfast and lunch there's...

2018-11-06

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SMO "leaks" SQL login passwords (in memory) and (some) SecureStrings in clear-text

• by Cody-Konior

• Cody Konior

Updated 2018-11-04: Expanded test code, renamed the
title of the post so it's clearer.
SMO (SQL Server Management Objects) are the .NET...

2018-11-03

688 reads

Validating SMO security bugs with Pester

• by Cody-Konior

• Cody Konior

SQL Server Management Objects (SMO) are the .NET classes underpinning Management Studio and all good PowerShell that interfaces with SQL...

2018-03-20

43 reads

Does the log file growth for multiples bug still exist in SQL Server 2012?

• by Cody-Konior

• Cody Konior

Nope.

2018-03-13

228 reads

Availability Group round-robin read-only routing isn't magic

• by Cody-Konior

• Cody Konior

I've been hearing about round-robin read-only routing ever since SQL 2016 came out but whenever I tried to test if...

2018-03-08

257 reads

Upgrading an expired SQL Server 2016 Evaluation Edition

• by Cody-Konior

• Cody Konior

It's happened to almost everyone. Someone installs Evaluation Edition and now you need to upgrade
it to a licensed copy using...

2017-11-30

660 reads

Are your disks formatted with UseLargeFRS?

• by Cody-Konior

• Cody Konior

PureStorage has a pretty cool post that mentions the importance of formatting SQL Server disks with a 64KB clusters and...

2017-10-18

907 reads

Something you didn't know about validating full-text indexing

• by Cody-Konior

• Cody Konior

My favourite way to compare technical experience with others is to ask them about the ways in which something can...

2017-04-26

154 reads

Availability group replica murdered in cold blood by WSFC

• by Cody-Konior

• Cody Konior

This problem was first flagged by a daily operational validation test I wrote using everything in my recent webinar to...

2017-03-15

182 reads