In just over 2 weeks something pretty big in the SQL Server Community in the UK is taking place. We are going to witness the first SQL Saturday on these shores.
The event is running in Cambridge, the home of the SQL Cambs user group and the chapter leader there (Mark Broadbent) is the lead on the SQL Saturday event too.
Mark and his team are making…
Perhaps the main highlight of SQL compliance manager 3.6's impressive set of features is its ability to actively track any activities of privileged users. When users of high administrative privileges access column groups in monitored tables, SQL compliance manager 3.6 issues alerts to security administrators, compliance officers, IT auditors, and…
SQL Server and SQL Azure are two Microsoft Products which goes almost together. There are plenty of misconceptions about SQL Azure. I have seen enough developers not planning for SQL Azure because they are not sure what exactly they are getting into. Some are confused thinking Azure is not powerful enough. I disagree and strongly [...]...Did you…
Idera, a Microsoft Managed Partner and Houston-based provider of tools that specialize in the management and administration of Microsoft SQL Server, PowerShell, and SharePoint, recently announced the release of Idera SQL safe 7.0. The latest version of the SQL Server backup and recovery solution comes equipped with various improvements which…
The list of updated features begins with an overall improved upgrading experience from SQL Server's older versions to the latest SQL Server 2008 SP3 edition. Microsoft has implemented measures that provide enhanced performance and reliability while making the upgrade as well. Logs in SQL Server Integration Services will display the…
Quite a long ago I wrote about a SQL Server programming tip on how to extract date part from a DATETIME column. The post discusses about using of T SQL function convert() to get date part. One of the readers of the post, tipped me about a better way of extracting date part and here is the SQL query he sent to us
SELECT DateAdd(day,…
I've been trying to install SQL Server on a new Windows Server 2008. I have tried everything but I haven't been able to narrow down the problem.
When the installation fails I get " Exit code (Decimal): -2068643839". The problem with this is that according to Microsoft this is a generic error code. I follow their guide to look…
I’m sitting in the Seattle airport, waiting for my flight to Silicon Valley California for the SQL Server 2008 R2 Launch Event. By some quirk of nature, they are asking me to Emcee the event – but that’s another post entirely.
I’m reflecting on the SQL Saturday 27 event that was just held in Portland, Oregon this last…
I’m sitting in the Seattle airport, waiting for my flight to Silicon Valley California for the SQL Server 2008 R2 Launch Event. By some quirk of nature, they are asking me to Emcee the event – but that’s another post entirely.
I’m reflecting on the SQL Saturday 27 event that was just held in Portland, Oregon this last…
I created a login for a domain user (domain admin) and added it to role serveradmin, but after logging in I still can't list databases getting next error:
The database MyDB is not
accessible. (ObjectExplorer)
Program Location:
at…
I'm trying to install SQL Server Express 2008 and Reporting Services on a x64 Windows 7 Machine for development purposes.
I've installed SQL Server 2008 Express with the Microsoft Web Platform Installer
I had to manually enable the SQL Server…
There are a number of questions along this line - but they either sometimes contradict each other, or don't show how to properly verify that everything is actually working - hopefully this can be comprehensive...
I'm running SQL Server 2005…
I have
Full-Backup-A
Transaction-Log-Backup-A
Transaction-Log-Backup-B
(*) - I have to restore this point
Full-Backup-B
How to do it? It seems that the only way is
Full-Backup-A
Transaction-Log-Backup-A
Transaction-Log-Backup-B…
Got a server running a document delivery system on it.
The machine is running extremely poorly (Windows XP). I've checked the regular things, like doing a memtest (turned out fine) and trying to degraf the HDD (not needed).
The only…
When running a command like the following:
"RESTORE FILELISTONLY FROM DISK='\\\\server\\folder\\DummyDB.bak'"
I'm getting this error:
Backup destination "\\server" supports a FILESTREAM filegroup. This filegroup cannot be used as…
i'm trying to do point in time restore and following error occurs... and database goes into xxxxx(loading) state...
Backup set cannot be applied because it is on a recovery path inconsistent with database
i have to do RESTORE…
Hi,
I have migrated some DTS packages to SSIS 2005 using "Migration" wizard. When I tried to run it, it fails saying you need a higher version of SSIS even though the destination SSIS server is on 9.0.4211 level.
then I…
Here's the problem we're having:
In the applications that are using the databases we get errors like:
The log for database 'redactedDatabaseName' is not available. Check the event log for related error messages. Resolve…
Our website has started timing out like crazy today. All of our clients are finding it unusable.
The only error we can seem to trace down as a potential problem is this:
SQLAllocHandle on SQL_HANDLE_DBC failed Error ASP…
I need to decrypt a column in a table that has previously been encrypted at application level.
The algorithm is DES at 192 bits and block size = 64.
I have the password but DecryptByPassPhrase doesn't seem to work.
Hey all, quick question.
Our current legacy system was built using multiple distinct databases (about ten of them). These are all part of the same discreet system, and a large number of SPs and functionalty span…
Hello,
when I right click a table I can select select top 1000 rows and edit top 200 rows
I'd like to add an option select bottom 1000 rows
I am pretty sure that I've seen it somewhere online how to do this. But…
I'm about to put my database in Full Recovery Model and start taking transaction log backups. I am taking a full nightly backup to another server and later in the evening this file and many others are backed up to…