Yesterday I shared a blog post where I discussed how to list all the users with the System Admin (sysadmin) rights. I have received a quite a few emails and comments on this subject. The comment which got the most attention is from SQL Expert Chris Mangrum. He has shared a very interesting script with modification from the original script where he has also included additional permission of Control Server.
SQL SERVER – Too many dumps generated. CPerIndexMetaQS::ErrorAbort – Index Corruption
I always try to share my knowledge and learning from a client engagement. This helps me in remembering the steps I took to reach to the solution. It also helps my blog readers to follow the same steps and fix their problem rather than waiting for some expert to fix it. So you see, this is a WIN-WIN situation for both of us. Let us learn in this blog post how to fix index corruption.
SQL SERVER – List Users with System Admin (sysadmin) Rights
One of the pre-requesting of Comprehensive Database Performance Health Check is to check if user has necessary system admin rights or not. It is almost impossible to help customer with SQL Server Performance if they do have a DBA who has access to system admin rights.
How to Kill Processes Idle for X Hours? – Interview Question of the Week #152
Question: How to Kill Processes Idle for X Hours?
SQL SERVER – Fix Error – Restore Operation Failed for Database Due to Insufficient Memory in the Resource Pool ‘Default’
SQL SERVER – Fix Error – Restore Operation Failed for Database Due to Insufficient Memory in the Resource Pool ‘Default’
SQL SERVER – Always On Availability Group Failover Generating Dump. Error: 17066: SQL Server Assertion: HadrFstrVnnUtils.cpp:479
One of my clients was using Always On availability group. They were having 3 nodes Always On AG setup. For simplicity, let’s call them Node1, Node2 and Node3. The first two nodes were in one subnet and node3 was in separate subnet. Let us learn about availability group failover.
SQL SERVER – FIX: Msg 15150 – Cannot Alter The User ‘dbo’.
One of my clients was deploying SharePoint and they were following some documents to make sure it is as per their standard deployment. They were seeing below error while updating the login from dbo to some other login from user mapping window (for login properties window). Let us learn how to fix error 15150 about cannot alter the user.