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
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 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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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 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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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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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
Learn Better: Pause to Review More
By Brian Kelley
If you want to learn better, pause more in your learning to intentionally review.
Azure SQL Managed Instance Next-Gen: Bring on the IOPS
By John
If you’ve used Azure SQL Managed Instance General Purpose, you know the drill: to...
SQL, MDX, DAX – the languages of data
By DataOnWheels
Ramblings of a retired data architect Let me start by saying that I have...
Forums
Two foreign keys to the same table. Can't cascade deletes.
Not sure if this is really a relational theory question but it seems about...
Connecting Power BI to SSAS and effective user not working
Hi everyone, Below is a consolidated summary of what we validated Architecture & data...
High Availability setup - has anyone seen this method?
Hi all, I recently moved to a new employer who have their HA setup...
Question of the Day
Encoding URLs
I have this data in a SQL Server 2025 table:
CREATE TABLE Response ( ResponseID INT NOT NULL CONSTRAINT ResponsePK PRIMARY KEY , ResponseVal VARBINARY(5000) ) GOIf I want to get a value from this table that I can add to a URL in a browser, which of these code items produces a result I can use? See possible answers