Category Archives: Microsoft SQL Server
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What’s in my backup file?
Leave a commentFebruary 22, 2017 by Kenneth Fisher
Restoring a backup file is pretty easy right? Ok, but what if more than one database backup is stored in …
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Deadlock on ALTER DATABASE
5February 16, 2017 by Kenneth Fisher
I had an interesting problem recently. A database was stuck in single user mode. How exactly was it stuck you …
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Server level database permissions
4February 14, 2017 by Kenneth Fisher
Sometimes you have a requirement to grant permissions to every database on an instance. Historically this has required creating a …
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Deadlock priority
5February 8, 2017 by Kenneth Fisher
Everyone deals with deadlocks from time to time. But sometimes we need to control who’s the deadlock victim and who …
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SQL Connectivity issues: A guided walk through
Leave a commentFebruary 6, 2017 by Kenneth Fisher
The SQL Tiger Team (t) has recently put out a guided walkthrough for SQL Connectivity issues. Announcement Walk Through If …
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Changing what SSMS opens on startup
Leave a commentFebruary 1, 2017 by Kenneth Fisher
When you open SSMS a connection window automatically comes up. Then once you pick your server, connection type, username and …
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My SQL logins don’t work. Again.
Leave a commentJanuary 25, 2017 by Kenneth Fisher
My recent post on why SQL logins aren’t working has generated a couple of follow up posts. The first one …
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Creating a connect entry.
4January 23, 2017 by Kenneth Fisher
I recently wrote a blog about how to tell why your SQL login isn’t working. There were a lot of …
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Lead Blocker
16January 18, 2017 by Kenneth Fisher
Blocking is just part of life I’m afraid. Because we have locks (and yes we have to have them, and …
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What is COPY_ONLY?
4January 16, 2017 by Kenneth Fisher
You’ll frequently hear that you should add the COPY_ONLY clause when taking an ad-hoc full backup to avoid messing up …
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