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SQL SERVER – Migrating AlwaysOn Availability Group to New AD Domain

As a part of my independent consulting, I also provide a high level overview of the migration strategy. As a part of this engagement, my client wanted me to provide steps to move AlwaysOn availability group from DomainOld to DomainNew. This was happening because they were acquired by another company and they need to migrate all assets to a new domain.

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SQL SERVER Management Studio – Exception of type ‘System.OutOfMemoryException’ was thrown. (mscorlib)

I was trying to help my client in generating a report large data set. After spending some time and understanding the schema, I could provide them the query to get the results. Now, he wanted to save the results in excel sheet. So, he ran the query in SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS), got a lot of rows as output and he hit Ctrl+C in the grid. Let us learn about System.OutOfMemoryException error.

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SQL SERVER – Puzzle – Why does sp_spaceused Show No Values?

When you see something not behaving the way normal way, either it must be magic or in software terms it is an error or bug. This blog was inspired by someone who caught me unaware with this challenge that it took me by surprise. I didn’t know how to solve it and it took me close to 10 mins before realizing what was happening behind the scenes. Let us see the puzzle about Why does sp_spaceused Show No Values?

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SQL SERVER – Error: 566, Severity: 21 – An Error Occurred While Writing an Audit Trace. SQL Server is Shutting Down

Have you ever been in a situation where SQL Server shuts down by itself? It sounds strange but I met across a gentleman in flight who reported this issue to me. Since I was curious to know the cause, we exchanged our business cards. Once I came back home, I sent him an email asking more details about the SQL shutdown issue. Let us learn about how to fix error, An Error Occurred While Writing an Audit Trace.

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SQL SERVER – Script to Find and Monitoring TempDB Space Usage

I have started blogging on my site long ago and my whole idea was to make script repository so that others can reuse it. Now when I look back, there are many scripts and many solutions which I have written. Personally, I have used many of them. Today I am sharing another script which I have used with one of my clients and it was very useful for me in troubleshooting a strange TempDB log file issue. Let us learn about Monitoring TempDB Space Usage.

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