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19 July 2008 12:08

Cannot generate SSPI context

Now here's a slightly interesting point about this error. Although the kb does actually mention this reason for the error it is about the last thing on the article, a footnote, and it doesn't specifically word it to cover this scenario, and we...
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29 February 2008 19:57

Only once every four years thank goodness!

I never cease to be amazed by what I discover within IT, mostly these days I'm more disappointed than anything else, I'm not a lover of the let's bash Microsoft about security patches or we should all use Linux / Open source as in the latter I'm sure...
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22 February 2008 20:34

dbcc dropcleanbuffers - or maybe not

As a consequence of another action I was prompted to want to clear the buffer cache – or to be more precise I tried to clear the buffer cache. So stepping back, what happens if you install more memory than the combined size of your databases? Most would...
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04 January 2007 16:48

Not Thinking it through - the saga continues

The saga continues ……….. Here below are the previous posts which relate to the management of a production SQL Server ( by a third party ). We asked that the job which re-indexes the database be disabled until such time as the issue of the database mode...
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