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… and one more thing … about Managed Service Accounts
Microsoft released hotfix for Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7 fixing password change mechanism. MSA’s passwords are updated by default every 30 days (may be changed in registry at...
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Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 and Master Data Services
Do you have Master Data Services deployed? Have you applied Service Pack 1 for Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2? Did you know that Cumulative Patches and Service Packs contain updates for MDS but update...
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How to make Master Data Services database operational after restore?
From time to time we need to migrate databases to other instance or we just need to copy database within multi-tier environment. Some databases including Master Data Services database need some after...
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Managed Service Account (MSA) GUI Tool by cjwdev – Windows Server 2008R2 schema
My April’s post about Managed Service Accounts had highest audience at my blog so far. Thanks for that! Chris Wright mentioned that he is working on GUI utility which would make MSA’s creation much...
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Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 2 Released (10.50.4000.0)
Microsoft has released second service pack for SQL Server 2008 R2 (10.50.4000.0). It contains generally all hotfixes provided in SQL Server 2008 R2 SP1 CU 1 to 5. Some of the hotfixes are highlighted...
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Use your text / CSV files in your queries via OPENROWSET
On Friday I was asked by my friend whether I could help him with text file access via OPENROWSET with Ad Hoc Distributed Queries. So I stopped by to help. His first thoughts were to use MSDASQL … but...
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Get first and last day of month in SQL 2012 and SQL 2008 and earlier
Today I had to create an ETL for batch loading of records into data warehouse for the current month. For this I had to get first and last day of the current month. Today I would like to share two …...
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Backup and Disaster Recovery Plan – Part I
Last Friday night (no T.G.I.F) Last week a friend of mine called that his customer’s hard drive failed but was able to do a bite copy of damaged drive. Few bad sectors were within MDF file. My first...
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Backup and Disaster Recovery Plan – Part II
In my previous article I described my database recovery attempts in company without ANY backups. Today I would like to talk about making of BDRP. All the time we protect ourselves our property our cats...
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Microsoft SQL Server Myth #2
Shrinking your transaction log makes your backups smaller. FALSE Transaction log and recovery mechanisms are one of the most misunderstood part of Database Engine. One of my customer was so adamant...
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SQL Server does not start with %%17051 error
SQL Server might not start from all variety of reasons including permission issues, master database not available or corrupted, service account issues, etc. In this article I will talk about diagnose...
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