Spreadsheet controls in #Office 2013

Now available are Audit and Control Management Server (ACM), and Discovery and Risk Assessment, which are both designed to help...

PowerShellGUI Tools – Disk,Memory and Process – Modules

I’ve created a script which gives details of Disk, Memory and Process and its represented graphically.
Here, the scripts are enclosed in...

Virtual Lab – Creating Differencing Disks

This is part of my series on building a virtual lab for use with SQL Server and Windows. You can...

McIntosh MT5 #stayclassysandiego

Making or assembling electronics in America may be the next big trend in tech, but it’s nothing new for McIntosh....

Annoying Recruiters

In a follow-up to my blog post Low-rate recruiters – The bane of my existence, Michael Bramante (website) wrote me a...

Sometimes Cheaper Makes Sense / Mastering the Basics Always Does

It’s good to remember that the ideas and challenges of mastering a craft – any craft – have been around a while....

Restoring Filegroup backups on another server, and why it won’t work…

We have 2 different SQL Servers which both have a copy of the AdventureWorks2012 database in Full recovery mode.
One of...

The Strange Story About the MERGE that Killed the Cluster

I don’t like the MERGE statement. The syntax is weird, it’s tricky in terms of locks, and it has a...

101 Whiskies to Try Before You Die #whiskey

In his new book “101 Whiskies to Try Before you Die” whisky expert Ian Buxton poses the fun challenge of...

Attach Database “Operating System Error 5 (Access is denied)” MSSQL Server 2012.

When I try to attach mdf file I got following error below.

Solution:

There are multiple solutions to this

1    1.    Move .mdf and .ldf to SQLServer install directory Data folder...