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I'm not in the position of changing hardware very frequently. For the most part, the teams I've been on give responsibility for the hardware/infrastructure to the Systems/Networking team. However, we...
View Articleword for create a dev server
I have a question about a correct term or word I should use;When we have a production server, and later somebody request to have a dev server install, with the almost same functionality as production...
View ArticleSQL CLR function using WinScp gets Stuck in SQL Job
Hello Guys,I have a CLR Function which gets the file list at the FTP Location on a specific server using WINSCP. It runs perfectly fine when i run it from SSMS.
View ArticleMaintenance Plan keeps failing
Everytime I run the Maintenance Plan in SSMS(Check DB Integrity, syspolicy purge history, Full backups, Transaction Log), and it keeps failing. I checked the History log for errors:Check Database...
View ArticleShowplan
Started a new role, have limited (read) rights to the server, I have asked for showplan rights but have been refused, my question is, does showplan rights give me something above and beyond showplan...
View ArticleHow static IPs are used in Windows Failover Cluster and HAG listeners?
Hello,Can somebody answer following questions. I have 2 Azure VMs with HAG setup but no HAG listeners are setup. The reason being I'm confused where those static IPs are supposed to come from and if...
View ArticleInstalling multiple versions of SQL server on Windows 2016 cluster
Hi team,We have a two node Windows 2016 cluster with single SQL server 2014 instance. Now I want to add one more node with SQL server 2016 instance. Will it impact any thing when I do failover ??I...
View ArticleTransaction Log Growth
Hi,I am currently using Ola Hallengren's backup solution for my backups on a SQL Server 2016 Standard instance. I have a full backup one day a week, differential every other day of the week, then...
View ArticleStorage Design for VLDB
We are in process of migrating from 1 DC to another. We have one SQL instance per server and large databases hosted per instance where the largest being ~2TB. Below is our current disk...
View ArticleExporting data with primary keys
Good day,I want to export data from one table to another using export and import wizard,i realised that the primary keys are not exported ,Is there a way to play around it without scripting the table...
View ArticleHelp/Advise - Setting up a Dev Platform, on the Prod Platform, same one...
Hello, yes, I know..., A Prod and Dev, Dev and Prod box on the same one server and same instances setup, not optimal, not my design. However it is my world, and has been for 1.5 years, and an existing...
View ArticleSQL Server 2016 cluster issue
Hi,We have installed SQL server 2016 Standard (SP1) in two-node Windows 2016 Fail-over cluster successfully..<by mistake> When we restart SQL engine service from Configuration manager on Active...
View ArticleSQL high Availability (Cluster or AlwaysOn )
Hi!I need to install SQL server 2016 HAI installed two w2016 servers with shared storage and install both sql server in cluster, but now I don't know if it's better do it with always ON and standalone...
View ArticlePWAIT_DIRECTLOGCONSUMER_GETNEXT & XTP_PREEMPTIVE_TASK
Hello everyone,do someone probably have explanation on these two new wait types PWAIT_DIRECTLOGCONSUMER_GETNEXT and XTP_PREEMPTIVE_TASK that came with SQL Server 2016? I am getting a huge average time
View ArticleCan I Restore with Device to Database on another Server?
my client wants me to set up an incremental database backup, which entails restoring to a device, not a fileI need to transfer that to a development machineI have transferred backup via .BAK files for...
View ArticleAuthenticate via gMSA Account through SSMS
Hello,Im trying to Authenticate via an gMSA account that is based on computer membership of an AccessGroup in AD that works in other purposes.Management Server 2016 GUI - Accessing from to --> SQL...
View ArticleSan block sizes
I appreciate this isn't a SAN forum. I'm exploring recommended block sizes to have for an all SSD SAN for SQL DW workload. I'm learning that bigger block sizes can massively impact SAN performance....
View ArticleSQL job run skipped...need to find out why?
All,One of our SQL jobs missed the scheduled run and I couldn't figure out why. SQL job is scheduled to run daily and shouldn't skip this unless it is either running or might have run long enough due...
View ArticleNeed to know when was the account granted access and who granted that
All,I would like to know if there is a way I can find out when a specific user was granted access rights to some DBs and when it was granted. For e.g we have a user called xx\yy and this user has read...
View ArticleSQL 2016 Always Encrypted feature
Hi All, Can we setup the always encrypted feature using tsql? What I mean is, if i want to enable encryption on 2 or more columns of a table, then I had to go through the ssms wizard and finally it was...
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