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Remove TDE completely. Really?
I must be getting old, two blog posts in the same year! Anyway, I made some additional testing as part of a TDE (Transparent Data Encryption, that is) implementation and I noticed couple of interesting...
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To OR or …?
Yeap, a year later, there we go, posting a quick blog again. A colleague of mine skyped me about a query that was running slow. Well, slow means that it ran for 90 seconds, and then it timed out, that...
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DATETIME and its surprises
Well, it’s about time I write another blog post (with a promise that I’ll do it more than once a year). I’m going to start a series of “bad habits to kick” as for me it is important that we all have a...
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Say What? – “Management Studio: must be set in single thread apartment (STA)...
Yes, I have another couple of minutes to document this weird message. I was trying to access the database properties for one of our databases. Guess what: I couldn’t as there was no owner! Well, the...
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Login failed. The login is from an untrusted domain and cannot be used with...
This blog post is waiting for me to have some time for the past couple of months by now. It did bite me back then, and so it did yesterday. “Login failed. The login is from an untrusted domain and...
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My mail to SQL Sentry that will win me (yeah, right) a free seat to SQL...
The amazing guys @SQL Sentry (www.sqlsentry.net) are giving away a chance to win a free seat to SQL Skills Internals and Performance training (check out the details:...
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Error: 17300, Severity: 16, State: 1. (Params:). The error is printed in...
Another quick one for today: When you encounter such an error (see the title and the print screen below), you might want to check this first:...
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BACKUP DATABASE TO DISK = N‘NUL’ – and misconceptions
Hopefully this will help someone out there. There is a command, BACKUP DATBASE <db_name> TO DISK = N’NUL’ and apparently people either don’t know that is there, or are using it for all the wrong...
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Tool review – SQL Backup and FTP
We currently do have a process in place that takes a full backup, creates some zip files, sends the over to another server, and whatever else is left. Obviously, it is prone to errors. Therefore I was...
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Online index operations are fully logged in SQL Server 2008 and later!
The title is self-explanatory, but I had no idea until I recently saw my transaction log size skyrocketing; and here’s the article: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2407439 best regards, io
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Is truncate logged or non-logged in SQL Server?
Okay, second blog post in one day – slowly trying to recoverJ. Below is an excerpt from a stored procedure from BizTalk server: –If you are doing this we assume it is because you have a huge, old db so...
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Fix orphaned users in SQL Server 2005 – not
A quick one, again (haven’t been blogging for a while, I have like a ton of blogs on my mind, lack the time, though): I think most of the DBAs have stumbled upon “how to fix orphaned users in SQL...
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DTS package runs from command line, but fails from SQL Server Agent
Yet another quick one for you. One of my colleagues was trying to set up a job to run a DTS package (yeap, I know, a bit of a last century stuff). Whenever he ran the package from the command line,...
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