by XTIVIA | Jul 31, 2018 | Blog, SQL Server
What do you do when something that has been working for months suddenly stops working and gives you a SQL Error 8623? Worse yet, what do you do when that error message tells you to either rewrite your extremely complex query or spend some cash on a Microsoft customer...
by XTIVIA | Jul 26, 2018 | Blog, SQL Server
Many people have heard that the traditional DBA role is changing. This is one of the hottest topics out there right now. One way that Microsoft is moving forward with this way of thinking is SQL Operations Studio (SOS). When it was first released in preview mode, many...
by XTIVIA | Jun 7, 2018 | Blog, Db2
How Db2 Handles SQL SQL is a powerful language in the hands of the right RDBMS. One of SQL’s strengths is that you specify what data you want returned without specifying what file, disk, san, or sector that data is stored on. Because we describe the result set...
by XTIVIA | May 30, 2018 | Blog, SQL Server
Connection Error Details While attempting to make an RDP connection to another Windows client the following error may be encountered. Typically this error is encountered when attempting a connection to an Azure hosted client, it has also been encountered when...
by XTIVIA | May 10, 2018 | Blog, SQL Server
For some time now, SHA-1 has not been allowed to be issued from CA’s with few exceptions. This was due to a large catalog of evidence suggesting that SHA-1 was less secure than acceptable. Starting with SQL 2016 self-signed certificates are issued using SHA-2,...
by XTIVIA | May 3, 2018 | Blog, Db2
Indexes are Good for Performance Generally speaking, DBAs and developers spend a fair amount of their performance time trying to find which indexes to add to a database to improve performance. If a specific query is having performance problems, one of the strongest...
