Source: http://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2016/12/11/13858448/cassini-saturn-rings-nasa Many of us have figured out that NASA is just a public-relations organization to fake-win the space race and grab billions upon billions of tax dollars under the guise of “research”. Well, now they want to crash land onto Saturn, which only makes sense since the “spacecraft” is running out of gas. No, I’m… Read More »
When a High Availability (HA) environment failed over, on the node that became Secondary, the backup jobs did not gracefully handle the change. The Maintenance Plans are supposed to intelligently determine whether each database is Primary or Secondary in an HA environment, and skip the backup if it is not Primary. This check actually fails… Read More »
Here is a situation I just came across (boiled down and simplified). An end user was having to manually find a user id, navigate to an image folder, and then search through hundreds of images to find the one corresponding with that user. Sure, they were in numerical order, but still, what a pain! He wanted to… Read More »
This is perhaps my most commonly used query when troubleshooting. From SQL Server DMV’s in action ebook. The output shows the spid (process identifier), the ecid (this is similar to a thread within the same spid and is useful for identifying queries running in parallel), the database name, the user running the SQL, the status… Read More »
PowerShell script to quickly change all Recovery Options to “Restart the Service”. https://gist.github.com/benf101/a3c7020c0a582aca06059b750bd08528
Creating and writing to output file in PowerShell.
This is a PowerShell script that puts out the XML required to update your Red Gate MultiScript servers. Manually entering the SQL instances from within the application can be a daunting task if you have a large number to do. This script will have you up and running in seconds. You must first have a… Read More »
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?
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.
This script will return all SQL instances running on a server or list of servers. cls Import-Module -Name SQLPS -DisableNameChecking $servers = “SERVER_NAME”, “SERVER_NAME_2”, “ETC”; foreach($server in $servers) { $path = “SQLServer:\SQL\” + $server; $instances = Get-ChildItem -Path $path; $instances; }