It began with an error thrown by a linked server. The linked server is on our warehouse server and connects to our SSIS server using the “login’s current security...
2021-12-03 (first published: 2021-11-23)
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I’ve been involved in building a solution on top of SQL Server peer to peer replication (SQL 2014 SP1) and...
2016-03-17 (first published: 2016-03-15)
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After a data centre power outage a decision was made to switch the start up mode of a bunch of...
2015-06-19 (first published: 2015-06-11)
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A colleague of mine discovered an interesting behaviour change from SQL Server 2012 to SQL Server 2014. We recently upgraded...
2015-06-02 (first published: 2015-05-21)
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When I first began this blog, back at the beginning of my DBA career, it was purely a place for...
2015-02-03
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The page came at a reasonable hour. All of the overnight ETL and processing jobs were just winding up before...
2015-01-21 (first published: 2015-01-15)
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I recently came cross another great reason to enable the remote admin connections server configuration on SQL server.
If you don’t...
2014-11-06
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What is it about 4:45 pm on a Friday afternoon that makes CPUs spike, drives crash, databases corrupt? I wish...
2014-10-21 (first published: 2014-10-15)
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The Situation: I was recently involved in the migration of a group of core databases from three SQL Server 2005 instances to...
2014-10-15 (first published: 2014-10-07)
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Once upon a migration I would use sp_help_revlogin to migrate logins and remap the SQL server logins using sp_change_users_login. During...
2014-05-15 (first published: 2014-05-07)
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By Andy Warren
Somehow two years have elapsed since my last update; hopefully it won’t be that...
By Steve Jones
If someone is trying to convince you it’s not a pyramid scheme, it’s a...
By Steve Jones
I was looking back at my year and decided to see if SQL Prompt...
I have table: t1 in schema1 with 19 billion records. I have another table...
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