How many times you had a problem where you have deployed a high availability solution, but the application is not able to use database and getting login failed for user after failover? Note that this issue would happen only with SQL Logins not Windows Login. You would understand the reason shortly. Here are the situations where you might face login failure.
SQLAuthority News – Presenting 3 Technology Session at GIDS 2015
Great Indian Developer Summit is my favorite technology event and I have been extremely happy to present technology sessions here for over 5 years. Just like every year, this year, I will be presenting three technology session on SQL Server 2014. This time the event is at two locations. First one is…
Read MoreSQL SERVER – Walking the Table Hierarchy in Microsoft SQL Server Database – Notes from the Field #076
[Note from Pinal]: This is a 76th episode of Notes from the Field series. Hierarchy is one of the most important concepts in SQL Server but there are not clear tutorial for it. I have often observed that this simple concept is often ignored or poorly handled due to lack of understanding. In…
Read MoreSQL SERVER – Finding What Policies Are Enabled on Our Databases
When I wrote about Policy Management last week (SQL SERVER – Introduction to Policy Management), lesser did I know I will get queries from blog readers on the basics. As I always said, Policy Management is always an underappreciated capability inside SQL Server. In one of the mails, I was asked…
Read MoreSQL SERVER – Script – Removing Multiple Databases from Log Shipping
Have you ever come across a situation where you have large number of databases in log shipping and you have to remove all of them? If you use SQL Server Management Studio, it would take a long time because you have to Right Click on each database, go to properties,…
Read MoreSQL SERVER – Is XP_CMDSHELL Enabled on the Server?
I am not a big fan of using command line utilities in general. But from time to time I do explore and play around with command line tools that make my life easier. Having said that, when working with SQL Server, I do often give out the recommendation of not trying to use the native xp_cmdshell commands with SQL Server. Even the SQL_Server_2012_Security_Best_Practice_Whitepaper talks about xp_cmdshell and recommends to avoid the same if it is possible. These are basic building blocks of security that I highly recommend my customers from time to time.
Interview Question of the Week #015 – How to Move TempDB to Different Drive
Here is one of the most popular questions I often come across- Question – How to move the TempDB to different drive when the log files are filled? Answer – In most of the cases which I have observed one has to move the TempDB to different drive when TempDB log…
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