A client added a new node to the Windows Cluster and their AlwaysOn databases stopped synchronizing. The culprit was a wizard default, and here is the fix.
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SQL SERVER – Fix Error Msg 10794, Level 16 – The operation ‘CREATE INDEX’ is not supported with memory optimized tables.
A reader tried my ColumnStore on InMemory OLTP example and got Msg 10794: CREATE INDEX is not supported with memory optimized tables. Here is the fix.
How Many Foreign Key Can You Have on A Single Table? – Interview Question of the Week #096
How many foreign key references can you have on a single table? I said 253 at SQLPASS, but my answer was not complete. Here is the full answer.
SQL SERVER – Cannot Show Requested Dialog – Property Size is Not Available for Database
Opening tempdb properties in SSMS gave ‘Property Size is not available for Database’. The usual owner fix does not work on tempdb. Here is what did.
SQL SERVER – Unable to Attach Database – File Activation Failure – The Log Cannot be Rebuilt
A client lost the log drive and tried ATTACH_REBUILD_LOG, only to get a file activation failure: the log cannot be rebuilt. Here is why and what they could do.
SQL SERVER – Creating Clustered ColumnStore with InMemory OLTP Tables – Operational Analytics
SQL Server 2016 lets you add a Clustered ColumnStore index to InMemory OLTP tables for operational analytics. A teaser of my SQLPASS session, with an example.
Building Full Folder Paths From a Parent-Child Table
Your folder table stores only a name and a parent, so the full path has to be walked. I show the query, and how to catch the rows it quietly leaves out.
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