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olved steries #1 – SQL FCI Failovers
Overall Introduction I’ve had some feedback that people would like to know some of the stuff I see and how I ended up finding the issue and troubleshooting the problem. I present to you a new...
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olved steries #2 – Slow Restore
Issue Introduction In this olved stery the problem comes as a slow database restore. That’s what I was given, that’s all I have. It’s super fun when someone tells you the issue and there is absolutely...
View ArticleFFS Not Everything Is A SQL Server Vulnerability
The Dude I get asked if I know anything about <newest SQL vulnerability as reported by random website>, quite often. Generally, my answer is that I don’t for two main reasons… the first being...
View ArticleDBATools Decryption Issues Are Not A SQL Server Bug
Let me start off by saying that DBATools is a great tool that is immensely helpful to the community, if you haven’t heard about it or tried it, please give it a shot! I personally believe that the SQL...
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olved steries #3 – SQL Agent Eating Memory
Issue Introduction I was asked if I knew any reason why SQL Agent would be using “a bunch” of memory and more cpu than normal. You and I, reader, now have the same information to go on. What do you do?...
View ArticlePSA: Uptick in CrowdStrike Issues with SQL Server (Non-Yielding Scheduler)
I would say I’m surprised but… ahem… I’m not. My own snarkyness aside, I’m not sure what updates have or haven’t been pushed out by CrowdStrike but there have been at least three incidents in the last...
View ArticleError 8474 state 11, 17836 state 20, 9642 state 3, and your company’s need to...
The road to Hell is paved with good intentions. I get it, your security team is the best ever. You work at a company where the industry (or public sector) requires that servers be “compliant” by...
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SQL Server Self-Signed Certificate “Vulnerabilities”– FFS Get Off My Lawn
Refresher It may be news (or not) to you that SQL Server can utilize the latest transport security standards when talking to clients and servers. Normally you’d need to create your own certificate for...
View ArticleAttempting to recycle all monitors that have loaded the DLL sqsrvres.dll or...
I won’t say I told you so… I will, however, point out common AG question #8… I’m not sure why so many of these are coming up lately, but I’ve not had to troubleshoot a few, and I think it’s worth...
View ArticleVM Backups + SQL HA = SQL AlwaysOff
On, Off, On, Off, On… I see this more often than I’d like to, so count this as your PSA (public safety announcement) when using VM level backup software, SQL Server, and even worse when you add in...
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