SQL Server Blogs

I requested that we service pack a third party app - here's the responseI have received a reply back from Engineering that SP4 is certified now with WLE 7.x. Engineering ran some tests against SP4 and it runs fine and doesn't introduce any obvious problems.

This is the stuff of DBA nightmares ! email trail: Q. Can you reset the SA account on server XXXXX, we think it has expired and now no-one can work. Connect to Server: Surely no-one would set up a Server with an sa account which expires? Thankfully not. Find sa password and change connection to use SA account. Connect without ...

Note identities changed to protect the innocent (sic ). In a datacentre I have an iscsi san which provides storage for a SQL Cluster. It developed a fault and required replacement of a few parts, all hot swappable. Although we had suppport/warranty this did not include onsite so we arranged to have the parts delivered. The datacentre ...

This post was inspired by a developer and I think illustrates the gulf that can sometimes exist between IT and the business. I should point out that this post is the diplomatic version! Initially I was sent a simple search for a person with a question about why the query plan showed a sort when there was no sort in the query and why did the ...

This is an interesting post and although I don't have any direct issues of performance with any of my Servers I can see the build up in the registry as described. If you make extensive use of DPR / TS sessions you might want to check this ...

I've been working with the bare metal Hyper V and it's been an interesting time, if you haven't ever encountered windows core then it's a bit of a culture shock, as I understand it SQL Server will be running on windows core very soon - or maybe I read it wrong?   Anyway having built my Hyper V server I decided that I'd ...

It's funny how things seem to bob to the surface every so often, a bit like revivals of Musicals or the fact you know it's christmas becuase ET is on the TV again. Blake Morrision from the Ask the Performance Team has blogged about issues with working sets and SQL Server, ...

A. When it’s on SQL Server.   A very important part of Business Analysis is understanding the perceptions of users even if they haven’t clearly stated a requirement, so a SQL Server table without a clustered index is known as a heap ( in fairness I could say that a table with a clustered index is an ordered heap ), programmers understand ...

As I have been asked,  here to tidy up yesterdays post is the procedure my startup procedure calls along with the logging table deployed in the DBA database. Just to muddy the water further I have routines for remotely calling the DBAMessages table through a remote server to send out email from a central server!! Just to explain that I ...

This is nothing exciting but I've always found this startup procedure  very useful. All this simple procedure does is send you an email if the SQL Service Starts. If your Server is a cluster it will tell you which node you're on. -- On it's own this procedure can't actually be used as I route the output through ...