A customer’s SQL Server 2017 install kept failing with “VS Shell installation has failed with exit code 1638”. Here is what caused it and how we fixed it.
SQL SERVER – List Users with System Admin (sysadmin) Rights – Part 2
After my post on listing users with System Admin (sysadmin) rights, Chris Mangrum shared a better script that also covers CONTROL SERVER. Here it is.
SQL SERVER – Too many dumps generated. CPerIndexMetaQS::ErrorAbort – Index Corruption
A reader had too many dumps with CPerIndexMetaQS::ErrorAbort. Here is how we traced them to index corruption and the steps we took to fix it.
SQL SERVER – List Users with System Admin (sysadmin) Rights
I List Users with System Admin membership before agreeing on the permissions for a health check. This query inspects visible principals.
How to Kill Processes Idle for X Hours? – Interview Question of the Week #152
Interview question: how to kill processes idle for X hours in SQL Server? Here is a script that finds idle sessions and kills them.
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
A client’s availability group failover across subnets got stuck in Resolving and generated dumps with Error 17066. Here is what we found and how we fixed it.