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Question We are trying to solve connectivity issues for one of the app trying to pull data from very secured sql server behind firewall. I am not that expertise in security but need help on how to proceed in opening ports for that app to pull data from sql …
Continue readingQuestion Each night my SQLServer replication failed on a big table with the following error. It is failing on a different table each night but always on a relatively big table ( > 200,000 rows) The process could not bulk copy into table '"dbo"."Table01"'. …
Continue readingQuestion I am trying to import a bacpac file to my SQL Server Express 2016. An exception is thrown during the import with GRANT ADMINISTER Database Bulk Operations TO [MyUser]; Returns: Incorrect syntax near 'ADMINISTER'. I am running the import as the sa …
Continue readingQuestion I'm simulating the situation where I take a backup from instance A and restore it on instance B. I followed the doc to Backup to Disk with Encryption. Since I'm using only my desktop to simulate the whole process, after taking the backup of the …
Continue readingQuestion This has probably been asked before, but I couldn't find the answer. I have a complex datamodel in sql-server-20XX (more likely to be something old) in which cascade delete has been turned off (by design). A large chunk of our database has been sold …
Continue readingQuestion I'm really confused by this SQL here, I have this sample where I am using the value from the main query in the subquery and then using XML PATH to add a comma between the dates. The setup is 2 tables one with the dates I want to string together. I am …
Continue readingI recently saw a question on DBA Stack Exchange (it has since been deleted by the author), who had a “special process” that ran regularly, and as part of that process, they disabled the trigger, did some stuff, and re-enabled it. During that process, the step …
Continue readingQuestion Our team is migrating one of our databases to Amazon RDS MS SQL Server. As part of that, we have to rewrite some of our stored procedures. We have a stored procedure that performs a database backup to a network storage.
Continue readingQuestion When I am running: Ctrl+Alt+R will run the web browser in an SSMS tab. However, this now produces the message: I do have MS Edge installed but SSMS is not finding it. What should I do to help SSMS find MS Edge and use it?
Continue readingQuestion I'm trying to find a way to allow an application to create tables and insert data into them on a SQL Server 2019 while protecting from injection attacks in case the app credentials would leak. My experience is limited when it comes to writing code …
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