Reporting Services on Remote Server ?
We're setting up Reporting Services on a server at a hosting company, not on the local domain at the office.We have a VPN for users to access SQL and web servers there, but not sure how to give them...
View ArticleAlways On
I know we can have 4 secondary database using Always on. However, i am little unsure that 4 secondary means 4 databases only or 4 Availability groups(each group can have multiple databases)?Thanks
View ArticleDisk corrupted in always on
One of the disk corrupted where the database files are placed and those databases are configured in always on. What is the status of the databases, is any dependency is there at disk level on the...
View ArticleSSMS 2016 - Setup Failed Access Denied (0x80070005)
Attempt to install SSMS 2016 returns Setup Failed Access Denied (0x80070005) OS is Windows 2012 R2 Datacenter on a VMware machine
View ArticleSQL Server 2016 - NTLM is not working for Domain Accounts on the Default...
I have 3 SQL 2016 instances recently built on a WS 2016. The SQL Services run under domain accounts which are different for each instance.For all instances, SPNs are not registered during start up,...
View ArticleTLS 1.0 with SQL Server 2016 SP2 CU5
HelloDoes any body know if TLS 1.0 is still support on SQL 2016 SP2 CU5?
View ArticleHigh Availabiltiy Role Change Alerting
I've created a SQL Alert to email an operator when the High Availability Group fails over. I've set it to use Error 1480.The alert fires successfully, but it fires 3 times so I get 3 emails for the...
View ArticleLast DB Usage
How to check DB last used or how to remove orphaned databases based on the usage
View ArticleDBA left and they shut off his AD account
Our DBA left and they shut off his account. Of course, things started failing all over the place so I was tasked to help. I'm checking the service accounts and job owners. Any advice on other places I...
View Articlerecreate a Basic Availability Group question
hi,In the process of changing IPs for one node of a clustered server with databases in a Basic Availability Group we have to drop and recreate the BAGs.Working on the node where the BAG is primary we...
View Articleget failed job per hour
Hi,I've this script that runs every hour to get the failed job.the problem with this script is when there is a job that runs lets says for 2 hour and it's failed in the end the script will not find...
View ArticleSSIS service account password change
hiwe're going through a password change policy - to make things more complex. Only 200 to change. SQL service accounts - easy to change the password through Config manager - no restart of service etc...
View ArticleSQL Server Transactional Replication
Does anyone know if you can reseed a table in the publisher and have it replicate to the subscriber. I was going to: 1) delete all the rows from the table at the publisher, 2) reseed the table back to...
View ArticleHigh context switching
Posting here after a long time :).I came across an interesting issue, i have 2 servers which are part of AG. These 2 servers are EXACTLY the same, has same cores, storage etc. I have a simple query...
View ArticleSQL Service Start before App DBs Drives on line
What happens if SQL starts up from C drive, but it takes 5 minutes before the E and F drives (containing the application DBs) come online?Will SQL continue to continue to reach them or will it just try...
View Articleneed more efficient way of re-doing primary key/clustered index
So I've got a situation here where I'm cleaning up the mess of a previous DBA. There are two tables where there is a primary key/non-clustered index that has the same exactly column(s) as non-primary...
View ArticleFind New SQL Servers
I am trying to find all new SQL Servers and DBs being created and grant appropriate access.Very often we learn about these too late when the programmers are ready to deploy.I know there are different...
View ArticleDefinition of minor version numbers
I've noticed 2 different minor version numbers. I'm trying to understand why this is, what it means, etc.For example, SQL Server 2016 SP12 minor version numbers 13.0.4001.0 and 13.1.4001.0What does...
View ArticleRestoring backups overview
I'm all we have at the moment, and I'm trying to learn everything I can about disaster-handling before the event. I'm working through Brent Ozar's hierarchy here:
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