Login and user SID dont match, but login still works.
I have a scenario I thought was impossible. The login below has an sid that doesnt match the DB user, but is still able to login, access the db and query as normal.select sid as [sessionID],* from...
View ArticleTCP / IP SQL configuration
Good day,Please help with the following.I currently have two instances, initially I had only one network card, but I added one more.I have configured the new IP of the second card in the TCP / IP...
View ArticlePREEMPTIVE_OS_GETPROCADDRESS
Happy Friday all!!!We use LiteSpeed for all our backups and have noticed the lovely new (guest not so new...) wait type "PREEMPTIVE_OS_GETPROCADDRESS" is showing up as a long wait type in our...
View ArticleInitial load of data to table slow
First let me say I'm not a DBA. I'm looking for some suggestions from others who have ran into this issue. I'm trying to gather info to help out our DBA's, they are swamped right now with one leaving...
View ArticleWEIRD CHARACTER IN THE ROW!!
Hello fellows,Today one of the team was working in a SSIS package and it had some issues and he tracked down to one row in specific..We got some sort of code in that table like an identifier to an...
View ArticleAlways On FailureConditionLevel and Session Timeout
Hi All,Over the past week, I've been monitoring my AOAG setup and I've noticed around the same time each night, my primary fails over to my secondary instance. This happens to be right after the VM...
View ArticleMove TDE encrypted database from SQL Server 2016 to 2012
Hi,I have to migrate a small database (around 300MB) which is TDE encrypted from SQL Server 2016 to SQL Server 2012.I thought of the following steps:1. Decrypt the database on the source server2....
View ArticleDatabase Mail permission issue for SQL Server 2016
Dear Everyone I was facing an issue today when setting up alerts on the SQL database server and got the error below:Date 8/6/2018 8:57:26 AMLog Database Mail (Database Mail Log)Log ID 15P
View ArticleIndex fragmentation - performance within application context
Dear SQL Server Central forum members,I have recently stumbled across a custom index fragmentation reporting tool and did a little write-up in my blog. I've made some statements about what kinds of...
View ArticleDistributed AG with AutoSeed
Hi,For setting up Distributed AG why it is needed to create Availability Group with Automatic seeding?
View ArticleIndex rebuilding on a AWS RDS SQL server instance
Hi, Is there a need for Index rebuilding for the AWS RDS SQL server -2016 version, considering RDS SQL server is self healing and fully managed by Amazon?and If I ever want to do index maintenance on...
View ArticleSeparate DB, log and Temp drives ?
These days, is there actually any point ?Using VM's and SANS, is there any real point in separating data, logs and tempdb out onto separate drive lettersBeen pondering this for a while with regards to...
View ArticleCOMPATABILITY
Hi,Our production database set with compatibility 100 in sqlserver2016.will there be any issues if we change the compatibility to 130 in current production?Thank you !!
View ArticleExecute job step different domain account
I have a SQL job on DomainA, i would like the job step to run under DomainB account , pull the file from DomainB server and restore on DomainA server. Is that possible?
View ArticleGood script to analyze Buffer pool
Can someone please share a good script to analyze buffer pool, would like to free space ,used space by different objects etc.
View ArticleContinueing SQL server 2012 ??
Hi out there, We are running a pretty important application on SQL server 2012 and the application will be upgraded within a few months (with the posibility to use a SQL 2016 environment). Due to fi
View ArticleSecond differential backup smaller than first one after full backup?
Hi,I'm testing some new backup processes here (a weekly job and a daily job).I ran my weekly job (these are just a subset of the steps...):3:00pm - Database Integrity Check of user databases3:30pm -...
View ArticleSQL Replication - 2016 to 2008 r2
I understand SQL Server is supported for replication from versions two up and two down. However will replication actually work from 2016 to 2008 r2 even though it may not be supported? We are looking...
View ArticleTransfer of system base from 2008R2 to 2014
Hello ,Following a migration error of my SQL2008 server to 2014I am starting from a new installation 2014 the goal will be to transfer the 2008R2 to the newIF I start with the transfer of system base...
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