Blog Post: SQL SERVER – FIX – Error: 26023 – TCP Port is Already in Use
One of my clients approach me that after patching of SQL instances, database mirroring stopped working. As usual, I asked them to share ERRORLOG file SQL SERVER – Where is ERRORLOG? Various Ways to...
View ArticleBlog Post: Linux – How to Change Group and User Ownership of a Directory –...
In this post, let’s learn how to use chgrp and chown commands to change group and user ownership of a directory On a Linux server, by default, the group owner of a file or directory is the primary...
View ArticleBlog Post: TDE Recovery
This week’s TSQL Tuesday is being held by the mighty Kenneth Fisher – Backup and Recovery- see this link, how can I not get involved with this one? I have been blogging for about a year now and have...
View ArticleBlog Post: SQL SERVER Management Studio – Taking DB Offline Made Easier
I have an appetite to observe and learn from what happens around me more. These are the best ways we realize how life has been gifted to us. Since I have been traveling lately like mad with families...
View ArticleBlog Post: Microsoft R Server 9.0 now available
Microsoft today announced the availability of R Server 9.0 on MSDN and Visual Studio Dev Essentials. This new release is built on top of the latest open source R engine, and comes with several new...
View ArticleBlog Post: SQL SERVER – Error: 26014 – Unable to Load User-Specified Certificate
After seeing various issues with SQL Server startup problem, I felt that I know almost most of the errors, but I was wrong till someone contacted me with a new error. But I learned that Errorlog is...
View ArticleBlog Post: NOLOCK
NOLOCK, some say it’s a fast option for queries and will never cause blocking, I say it’s quite dirty and MAY cause blocking. I used to think that a NOLOCK (which is the same as read uncommitted) hint...
View ArticleBlog Post: Why won’t my SP work THIS time?
Why won't my SP work? I did this exact thing. You're never too old to do something like this. The post Why won’t my SP work THIS time? appeared first on The MidnightDBA Star-Times .
View ArticleBlog Post: SQL SERVER – Unable to create login AlwaysOn availability group...
One of my clients reported a usual behavior of the AlwaysOn availability group. He informed me that he is trying to add a login on the secondary replica in the AlwaysOn AG environment but it is failing...
View ArticleBlog Post: Linux – How to generate and configure SSH Key authentication to...
Using SSH keys provide a more secure way of logging into a remote computer when compared to password authentication, and today I will walk you through how we can achieve this in 3 simple steps For this...
View ArticleBlog Post: Analysis Services and Power BI: Time-travel, Space-warping and...
As I visit businesses, consulting clients and training classes, to teach data reporting and analytics; there is a recurring conversation. It is one that I have had for eighteen years. The audiences...
View ArticleBlog Post: SQL SERVER – Clustered Instance Online Error – SQL Server Network...
While I was playing with SQL Cluster in my lab, I restarted the VMs and found that I was not able to bring SQL Server online. As always I was looking for error message, but there was nothing...
View ArticleBlog Post: Monday Coffee 2016-12-12
Speaking and presenting One of my biggest fears is public speaking and judging by this article , I’m not alone. However it’s something that I’ve always wanted to do and as such this year I’ve done a...
View ArticleBlog Post: SQL SERVER – Error After Cluster Patching – Error: 5184, Severity:...
During my last consulting engagement, I was pulled by my client to consider an issue which they were facing. They informed that they have applied service pack on one of their clustered environment and...
View ArticleBlog Post: Announcing Spotlight Developer v6.5
Spotlight Developer v6.5 The key features added in this release SQL Server Discovery. Scanning SQL Server instances can very useful especially in large and dynamic environment. The scan engine can be...
View ArticleBlog Post: Don’t blink you might READPAST it
Following on from my previous post on NOLOCK (https://blobeater.blog/2016/12/09/nolock/) I want to talk about another hint called READPAST. This hint tells the database engine not to read rows that are...
View ArticleBlog Post: SQL SERVER – Performance Analysis of Backup to Azure
It is second to human nature to compare when given options. When I wrote about the blog, SQL SERVER – Playing with Backups and Compression , I did compare some of the space savings one will achieve...
View ArticleBlog Post: Using Non-default Ports for SQL Server
The contentious issue here is the use of a non-default port for SQL Server. The post Using Non-default Ports for SQL Server appeared first on Thomas LaRock . If you liked this post then consider...
View ArticleBlog Post: SQL SERVER – Discovery Report – How to Find Information About...
Many times, we need to find information about the various features / version of SQL Server installed on a machine. If you ask a DBA, he can provide you information by looking at services and tell what...
View ArticleBlog Post: CHECKDB and Page Restoring from SSMS
Did you know that you can run DBCC CHECKDB (WITH PHYSICAL_ONLY) and issue page restores from SSMS (SQL Server Management Studio). I never, and I probably will never because I rather use TSQL – however...
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