SQL Server Patching – server won’t start
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SQL Server Patching – server won’t start

At times, specific topics come together simultaneously. In this case, several emails were received from the Data Platform MVP distribution list, and various customer reports and suitable posts in other blogs were found on “how DatabaseMailUserRole stops your patching,” so a German contribution was made to this. It’s about a bug that has appeared in…

SQL Server High Availability – DBCC 2021 – Part 1
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SQL Server High Availability – DBCC 2021 – Part 1

Any one of my customers has asked, or should have asked, “do I need a certain level of high availability for my SQL server or one of my SQL servers?” Regrettably, these deliberations often come to a halt when it comes to the budget… Naturally, such HA-solutions are more expensive, and depending on the solution…

SQL Server 2016 – IFI activation and TempDB optimization

SQL Server 2016 – IFI activation and TempDB optimization

Now that the SQL Server 2016 officially released, more and more details coming to light, so that you have to get slowly prepared for your first “real” installation. What has changed compared to SQL Server 2014 in part of installing everything? How should we adapt any existing documentation? When reading numerous tweets and blogs I…

TSQL – Getting important information about SQL Server instance

TSQL – Getting important information about SQL Server instance

We all know it, we are to provide information on our SQL servers … either the customer or a colleague will quickly have an overview of the most important parameters of the SQL Server … What is closer than times since just quickly a TSQL statement on performing the requested server? The last of such…