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
Resetting on the AI hype train
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There's a great article from MIT Technology Review about resetting on the hype of...
A New Word: Etherness
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etherness – n. the wistful feeling of looking around a gathering of loved ones,...
Vibe Coding a Login Tracking System
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A customer was asking about tracking logins and logouts in Redgate Monitor. We don’t...
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Question of the Day
UNISTR Basics
What does this code return in SQL Server 2025+? (assume the database has an appropriate collation)
SELECT UNISTR('Hello 4E16754C') AS 'A Classic';
A: 
B: 
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