SQL Server – Does the SQL Agent Service Account Must be a SysAdmin?
As of today (5/14/2013) this MSDN article says “SQL Server Agent service startup account must be a member of the SQL Server...
2013-05-14
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SQL Server – How to Best Remove Extra TempDB Data Files and Log Files
One of the Microsoft’s recommendation for optimizing the tempDB performance is to make each tempdb data file the same size. Today,...
2013-05-06
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SQL Server – How to Search/Query the SQL Server Error Log
Often times I keep checking the error log to make sure if everything is running fine. Here is an undocumented stored...
2013-03-25
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SQL Server – Database Engine Error Severities in Brief
When an error is raised by the SQL Server Database Engine, we usually see the Severity Level as in the...
2012-11-02
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SQL Server – Transaction Log File is Full; How to Shrink the Transaction Log
Here is a typical scenario every SQL Server DBA faces: Transaction Log grows unexpectedly or becomes full!! So, do I need to increase...
2012-10-12
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SQL Server – Msg 2555, Level 16, State 1, Line 1 – Error DBCC SHRINKFILE with EMPTYFILE option
When tried to empty one of the tempdb data file using the below T-SQL command: (My goal here is to...
2012-10-07
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SQL Server – Understanding ‘Agent XPs’ Server Configuration Option
Today we got an escalation where on one of the servers ‘Agent XPs’ was in a disabled state. And when...
2012-09-19
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Blogs
TempDB Internals – What’s New (Sql Server 2016 to 2025)
By Vinay Thakur
I wrote about TempDB Internals and understand that Tempdb plays very important role on...
Blog a Day – Day 2: Generative AI, Multimodal Systems, and Agent AI
By Vinay Thakur
continuing from Day 1 where we covered the history of AI and GPT family,...
A Wellbeing Day at Redgate
By Steve Jones
It’s a day off for Redgate today. This is our annual wellbeing day, where...
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A Quick Restore
While doing some testing of an application, I wanted to reset my environment after doing some testing with this code:
USE DNRTest BACKUP DATABASE DNRTest TO DISK = 'dnrtest.bak' GO /* Bunch of stuff tested here */RESTORE DATABASE DNRTest FROM DISK = 'dnrtest.bak' WITH REPLACEWhat happens if this runs, assuming the "bunch of stuff" isn't anything affecting the instance. See possible answers