From my understanding, that problem comes up when there is an issue in the network stack. It is not usually firewall related. MS support says:

Error 121: "The semaphore timeout period...

Another way to "move" the columns is to change the SELECT order. What I mean is rather than:

SELECT NAME, ID
FROM TABLE

do:

SELECT ID, NAME
FROM TABLE

The...

My opinion - blocking isn't something that needs a DBA to step in. Or at least it SHOULDN'T require a DBA to step in. Blocking should be temporary. If the...

@drew.Allen - is there a reason you need an artificial column to aggregate on? Couldn't you  use a COUNT on the ID, assuming there are no duplicate rows...

Probably a bit messy, but what about using a CASE statement? Something along the lines of:

SELECT ID
    , CASE WHEN EXISTS (SELECT 1
 ...

I could be dumb, but I am pretty sure that "server\database" is not a valid way to connect to a SQL instance. It needs to be server\instance. Otherwise how does...

I just want to add some clarity to Scott's reply - it depends. You CAN have your BAT file run synchronously OR asynchronously. It depends on the BAT file. For...

I generally look for all  logs that I am able to access. In this scenario, the SQL logs (not error logs, but the current SQL Server Logs, or possibly a...

My approach when things like this happen is I start my DR (disaster recovery) process. Restore the last known good backup to a test system and then copy the data...

I would start by checking the logs on the publisher and subscriber as those will tell you what is wrong. Likely a permission issue on either the publisher or subscriber,...

It sounds like you have a tool that monitors memory usage on the server. If you want a per-process app that'll do that, perfmon or task manager will monitor your...

Are you meaning per query or overall? and what do you mean by "continuously"? Like you want a realtime constant monitoring of overall memory usage? If so, then the easiest...

Welcome to the dev world then! When I was new to SQL, one of the hardest things I had to wrap my brain around was "row based operations" vs "column...

As a guess, if you select "Insert Row", it should have an option to add it at the top or bottom (if I remember right)... after adding a row, are...

VERY quick look at that, you have a bunch of dynamic SQL which is always a bit risky, so my opinion, I would re-write the whole thing without the dynamic...