Last week, one of my customers had engaged me for consulting to configure Log Shipping on clustered instance of SQL Servers which are running in different domains. In other words, the primary and secondary servers are in different domains. While … Continue reading
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SQL Server Predeployment IO Stress Testing using sqlio
TweetWhile there are some really good in-depth whitepapers and blogs (specifically by CSS Team and Brent Ozar & his team) to address this topic. However the information in these blogs,whitepapers is kind-off scattered and for a novice the information in … Continue reading
Blogs on SQLServerGeeks
TweetFollowing are links to my blog post on SQLServerGeeks.com. Hope you find them useful Does Parallel Plan for rebuild index impact the fragmentation of index? http://sqlservergeeks.com/blogs/Parikshit/personal/427/does-parallel-plan-for-rebuild-index-impact-the-fragmentation-of-index Parikshit Savjani Premier Field Engineer
A failure was detected for a previous installation, patch, or repair during configuration for features
TweetRecently I was trying to apply a security update for one of my SQL instance and I encountered the following error in my summary log Note: For those who are not aware, summary.txt is located in C:Program FilesMicrosoft SQL Server100Setup … Continue reading
Steps to Failover and Failback a Log Shipping Database in SQL 2000
TweetRecently for one of our customers we had to perform a DR drill activity. To give a background on the environment, they were using SQL 2000 Database as a backend of SAP Application and the SQL Database was log shipped … Continue reading
How to query Active Directory to fetch more than 1000 rows using Sql Server–Part I
TweetRecently there was a requirement from one of my customers to query Active Directory and load the data into a table in sql server. To be honest I am not developer so I started researching on the topics over the … Continue reading
How to query Active Directory to Fetch more than 1000 rows using Sql Server–Part II
TweetContinuing from where I left in my previous post. The Stored Procedure mentioned in my previous post cannot be used to query pwdlastset from AD since it is stored in Integer8Date format which cannot be interpreted by sql server. So … Continue reading
Sql server performing slow after changing the Cost Threshold for parallelism
TweetWe have observed a few cases now where sql server has started performing slow after changing the Cost Threshold Of Parallelism server option of the sql server. Ironically in such cases we observe that sql server is performing slow even … Continue reading
Did you know… The applications like Infopath may fail to submit data into table in SQL Server if the table is included in Merge replication
TweetYou are able to submit the data in the table using the application like InfoPath 2007 but when you go ahead and add the table in the Merge Replication Publication, the insert into the table using the InfoPath form starts … Continue reading
How to change the keys for the Encryption for an already encrypted database
TweetHave you ever wondered how to change the keys for the encryption for an already encrypted database. For this you can use “Key Rotation”. Key rotation is the process of decrypting data with the old encryption key and encrypting the … Continue reading