SQLAuthority News – We’re sorry… … but your computer or network may be sending automated queries. To protect our users, we can’t process your request right now.

I use multiple browser many times when I am working with multiple projects simultaneously. Often I use Google Reader to read few feeds. Recently, I faced the following error and this error will not go. I even restarted my computer and rebooted my network. I am confident that my computer…
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SQL SERVER – Enumerations in Relational Database – Best Practice

Marko Parkkola This article has been submitted by Marko Parkkola, Data systems designer at Saarionen Oy, Finland. Marko is excellent developer and always thinking at next level. You can read his earlier comment which created very interesting discussion here: SQL SERVER- IF EXISTS(Select null from table) vs IF EXISTS(Select 1…
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SQL SERVER – Fix : Error : 3117 : The log or differential backup cannot be restored because no files are ready to rollforward

I received the following email from one of my readers. Dear Pinal, I am new to SQL Server and our regular DBA is on vacation. Our production database had some problem and I have just restored full database backup to production server. When I try to apply log back I…
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SQLAuthority News – Microsoft SQL Server Protocol Documentation Download

Download Microsoft SQL Server Protocol Documentation Authored by Microsoft The Microsoft SQL Server protocol documentation provides detailed technical specifications for Microsoft proprietary protocols (including extensions to industry-standard or other published protocols) that are implemented and used in Microsoft SQL Server to interoperate or communicate with Microsoft products. The documentation includes…
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SQL SERVER – Mirroring Configured Without Domain – The server network address TCP://SQLServerName:5023 can not be reached or does not exist

Regular readers of my blog will be aware of my friend who called me few days ago with very a funny SQL Problem SQL SERVER – SSMS Query Command(s) completed successfully without ANY Results. This time, it did not take long before he called me up with another interesting problem,…
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SQLAuthority News – Interesting Whitepaper – We Loaded 1TB in 30 Minutes with SSIS, and So Can You

We Loaded 1TB in 30 Minutes with SSIS, and So Can You SQL Server Technical Article Writers: Len Wyatt, Tim Shea, David Powell Published: March 2009 In February 2008, Microsoft announced a record-breaking data load using Microsoft SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS): 1 TB of data in less than 30…
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