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...
A service is a program that runs in the background that does not require any user interaction. Some examples of services are the drivers for your keyboard and mouse, your antivirus software, and the SQL Server Service. The SQL Server Service is the executable process...
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,...
These are the ten most important commands to know as a DBA working in a Linux environment. This is not specific to any Linux distribution or single database platform necessarily, however, I have added some really good links specific to MSSQL Server running on Linux at...
One of the new features introduced by Microsoft in SQL Server 2017 is the new DMF sys.dm_db_log_info. It helps to take a look at the structure of the transaction log file without using the undocumented DBCC LOGINFO. As we all know, Transaction Log Files are internally...
1. Sign Up for Azure Visit https://signup.azure.com and follow the steps to sign up for Azure. Requirements Microsoft Account Mobile Phone Credit Card 2. Visit the Microsoft Azure Portal Once completed with signing up head on over to the portal Visit:...
SQL Server DBAs use Transaction Log backups for point-in-time recovery of a database in the full recovery model. It truncates the log file and prevents it from growing too large and consuming a lot of disk space. Before SQL Server 2017, these backups were scheduled in...
The most concerning issue with SQL Server merge replication is that it is not adequately designed to scale past a very small amount of subscribed instances. From a DBA's perspective, we find merge replication the least desirable of the Microsoft replication...
The SSIS subsystem failed to load When this error is received the initial response is to look into SQL Server Integration Services, however this error can occur on systems even when no SSIS is installed. The subsystems are actually related to the SQL Server Agent....
What are Statistics? Statistics are exactly what the name implies. They are statistical information about the distribution and/or correlation of data in the first specified column of indexes or tables in the form of a histogram. Histograms measure the frequency of...