SQL Server – Disabled User Account Overrides AD Group Authorization! Writer #1, 2016-12-28 Just a quick note on a scenario I ran into, and what I did to… Continue Reading
SQL Server Maintenance Plan Backups Failing On Secondary Replica in High Availability Environment Writer #1, 2016-12-02 When a High Availability (HA) environment failed over, on the node that became Secondary, the… Continue Reading
TSQL – Make Excel Link In Output Writer #1, 2016-08-042024-08-31 Here is a situation I just came across (boiled down and simplified). An end user… Continue Reading
TSQL – Get All Queries Currently Running Writer #1, 2016-08-042024-08-31 This is perhaps my most commonly used query when troubleshooting. From SQL Server DMV’s in… Continue Reading
Powershell PowerShell – Update All SQL Services To Restart On Failure Writer #1, 2016-08-042024-08-31 PowerShell script to quickly change all Recovery Options to “Restart the Service”. https://gist.github.com/benf101/a3c7020c0a582aca06059b750bd08528 Continue Reading
PowerShell – Create And Write Out To Log File Writer #1, 2016-08-042024-07-14 Creating and writing to output file in PowerShell. Continue Reading
Generate Red Gate MultiScript .dat File Writer #1, 2016-07-142024-08-31 This is a PowerShell script that puts out the XML required to update your Red… Continue Reading
T-SQL – Get Listener Name on AlwaysOn Cluster Writer #1, 2016-05-252024-08-31 When using AlwaysOn, you must connect using your listener name, not your node name. If you connect with the node name, it will only work until there is a failover, which would defeat the purpose of your High Availability setup, right? Continue Reading
SQL Server – Timestamp Column Writer #1, 2016-05-02 While this seems like a simple thing to do, I recently discovered so many ways not to do it (also known as failing) that I just had to document this one. Continue Reading
PowerShell – Get All SQL Instances On Server Writer #1, 2016-04-27 This script will return all SQL instances running on a server or list of servers…. Continue Reading