SQL SERVER – Patch Upgrade – Failed to connect to server. Error: 0x80070422

One of my recent interaction with a client was to assist in performing Upgrade the SQL Server 2008 R2 with service pack 2. As usual, I asked for setup logs from C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\100\Setup Bootstrap\Log\ folder. There were multiple folders so I asked the one which corresponds to the time of failure. Let us see exposure how we can solve error Error: 0x80070422.

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“I Don’t Know” – DBAs Should Learn to Use This Phrase – Notes from the Field #119

[Note from Pinal]: This is a 119th episode of Notes from the Field series. If you know Mike Walsh, he is an amazing person to meet and know. He is technical expert, but along with that he is a true life coach. I am fortunate to be his friend. Every single time I meet him, I learn something as a human. In this episode Mike explains one of the most important things any DBAs should learn, which is to say “I Don’t Know”.

In this episode of the Notes from the Field series database expert Mike Walsh gives a challenge to all of us. He explains to us why we should study our mistakes. He is indeed very right that every mistake gives us opportunity to correct ourselves.

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SQL Authority News – Behind the Scene Story of New Look

SQLAuthority.com blog started on November 1, 2006. Since that day I have blogged over 3500 blog posts and have witnessed over 110 million views on this blog. Today I am happy to tell you that SQLAuthority have a new look and the behind the scene story. This year we are going to witness 10th anniversary of the blog in November and it is amazing success of the teamwork.This blog was started as a bookmark collection of personal favorite script and slowly it turned out to be a place for the SQL enthusiast to talk SQL.

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SQL SERVER – Extended Events to watch for using ColumnStore Index

In the recent past, I have written a number of posts around ColumnStore Index and how they function. Some of the nuances of working with ColumnStore Indexes are available in this blog for reference. I have also written a few posts around Extended Events. One of my DBA friends pinged me to check if there were any way to use Profiler to see how ColumnStore Indexes worked. Obviously, there was nothing much of help I could offer because there were actually none in reality.

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