DR: SQL installed on new path, master restored, and SQL can't find resource database or start jobs!?!
If you ever need to perform a DR install of SQL to a new path and then restore the system...
2012-11-12
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Geographic Failover/Redundancy (and DR)
Today we await the arrival of a 100 year storm that threatens to surge New York harbor and the Long...
2012-10-29
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[off topic] I crossed a milestone today
Hey everyone,
I have been nearing this goal for some time (a few times coming within fractions) so this is somewhat...
2012-10-26
798 reads
SQL won't start because there's not enough space to create TEMPDB
SQL Server will not start.
You open up the ERRORLOG (...which I would only do with a text editor like gVim...
2012-10-25
1,438 reads
perfcollect
This is one of my most closely held DBA secrets.
Do you use PAL? You should.
Clint Huffman is a golden god...
2012-10-24
1,281 reads
"malpractice" in IT?
Through most of my career, I believed that at some point I would be able to learn enough and master...
2012-10-23
688 reads
Red Gate log shipping
Log shipping is great.
It's basically the act of beginning a restore with no recovery, and then restoring logs (with no...
2012-10-22
2,145 reads
this is what I do when I install SQL. How about you?
Whenever I install a standalone SQL instance (installing on a failover cluster adds a few more steps) on a x64...
2012-10-19
875 reads
UDL files with TRUSTED authentication - a security risk?
Hi everyone,
So the other day on twitter in #sqlhelp and privately with some friends at Microsoft and elsewhere I had...
2012-10-18
890 reads
Blogs
Using Prompt AI for a Travel Data Analysis
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I was looking back at my year and decided to see if SQL Prompt...
FinOps for Kubernetes: Leveraging OpenCost, KubeGreen, and Kubecost for Cost Efficiency
In the era of cloud-native applications, Kubernetes has become the default standard platform for...
2025 Wrapped for Steve
By Steve Jones
I’ve often done some analysis of my year in different ways. Last year I...
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reaching ftp thru winscp but erroring in ssis ftp task connection
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Finding Motivation
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The Last Binary Value of the Year
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The Last Binary Value of the Year
What does this code return?
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