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Connection to target machine could not be made in a timely fashion
Problem Actually the error is (note spelling mistake on fashion): "Connection to target machine could not be made in a timely fasion" Scenario One of our DBAs was testing the SQL cluster fai… more →
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Connection to target machine could not be made in a timely fashion
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belle wrote 1 year ago: Problem Actually the error is (note spelling mistake on fashion): "Connection to target machine … more →
View or function 'sys.dm_exec_sessions' has more column names …
belle wrote 1 year ago: Problem Agent message code 4502. View or function ’sys.dm_exec_sessions’ has more column … more →
Drop and Re-Add Server Registration When Renaming Computer
belle wrote 1 year ago: Problem: SQL Server replication requires the actual server name to make a connection to the server. … more →
What to do if you accidentally lock yourself out of SQL Server (SINGLE_USER mode)?
belle wrote 1 year ago: Problem: Msg 5064, Level 16, State 1, Line 1 Changes to the state or options of database <your db … more →
Order of Attribute-Centric Columns in FOR XML PATH matters
belle wrote 1 year ago: Error: Attribute-centric column ‘@Title’ must not come after a non-attribute-centr … more →
White Papers: Backup/Recovery, Performance Tuning
belle wrote 1 year ago: Here are some older Quest White Papers (specific to SQL Server 2000, but general concepts and practi … more →
Fixing Collation: The Experiments
belle wrote 1 year ago: We’re trying to solve a few collation issues we have been having, and I had collation overload this … more →
Using DDL Triggers
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belle wrote 1 year ago: Sample script below: 1: -- ========================================================================= … more →
Troubleshooting Database Mail
belle wrote 1 year ago: If you have configured Database Mail, and SQL Server still isn’t able to send emails out, here are a … more →
Issue: Length of LOB data to be replicated exceeds configured maximum 65536
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belle wrote 1 year ago: Error: Length of LOB data (78862) to be replicated exceeds configured maximum 65536 Scenario: We pub … more →
Operations That Heavily Stress Out TempDB/SQL Server
belle wrote 1 year ago: Operations that heavily stress out tempdb Excerpt: These operations heavily use tempdb: • Repeated c … more →
Diagnostic Information Queries for SQL Server 2005/2008
belle wrote 1 year ago: Glen Berry posted a collection of queries that can be used in diagnosing SQL Server 2005/2008 metric … more →
TABLESAMPLE Gotcha (ah the stress)
belle wrote 1 year ago: I needed a few random rows from one of our tables with at least a million rows. I used the following … more →
Fixing Orphaned Users
belle wrote 1 year ago: This is a follow up posting on Issue: Server principal is not able to access the database under the … more →
Follow up on Issue: Server principal is not able to access the database under the current security context
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belle wrote 1 year ago: SQL Server operates on the concepts of Logins and DB Users. A login (server level) can map to a sing … more →
Issue: Server principal is not able to access the database under the current security context
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belle wrote 1 year ago: Issue: We backed up and restored one database from one server to another. Sounds simple, right? Shou … more →
Troubleshooting SQL Server 2005 "No global profile is configured..."
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belle wrote 2 years ago: Error in logs: Executing the query "EXECUTE msdb.dbo.sp_notify_operator @name=N'ds',@body=N'deleted … more →
