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Question Is there a simple way to reconnect a query window that is “not connected” to the original connection that was used by that query without manually picking the server name needed? If I click the Connect button on the SQL Editor toolbar or right click …
Continue readingQuestion I have a two node sql server 2008 r2 cluster that we just did an OS upgrade from windows 2008 r2 to windows 2012 r2, the OS upgrade was done in place so the SQL Server Installation stayed in tack. The cluster role won't come back online saying it's …
Continue readingA closer look at DELETE statements that use EXISTS, and the problems this pattern can hide.
Continue readingThe latest malware to make the headlines is really interesting to me. It’s a ransomware worm called Petya. Ransomware is particularly interesting to me as a DBA, because DBAs are responsible for keeping data safe, and ransomware is specifically designed to …
Continue readingQuestion I am wondering if it is possible to split up a very large query to have parts of it done on the secondary read only servers, or If this feature only allows me to run separate queries or scripts on the secondary servers. I would also like to know if …
Continue readingQuestion I have created a table with 650 Numeric(19,4) columns. When I switch on Page Compression, by running ALTER TABLE fct.MyTable REBUILD WITH (DATA_COMPRESSION = PAGE); I get Msg 1975, Level 16, State 1 Index 'PK_Mytable' row length exceeds the maximum …
Continue readingQuestion I have a vendor solution that uses a sql server (2008r2) database. We are allowed to do anything we want in our own schema, but cannot modify dbo objects without vendor permission. Any customization we make is in our own schema (cust). We have full …
Continue readingQuestion I am just trying to look up more verbose information for a maintenance plan task that failed. I open up the log file viewer and check the box to view the logs for my maintenance plan. There are no active filters besides that in this example. Then I …
Continue readingQuestion I'm trying to balance read traffic between two SQL Server 2016 Enterprise Edition instances (Primary and Secondary) using availability groups and the read only routing. Here is my current setup: The servers are in AWS in two different AZ The servers …
Continue readingQuestion I have a powershell script that I am trying to add in to a sql agent job, but the job step is failing with the following error A job step received an error at line 1 in a PowerShell script. The corresponding line is 'import-module SQLPS …
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