SAN's and SAN switches for failover cluster
Hello,I'm not 100% sure on how this works but basically, I've been asked if 2 SAN's can be connected to each other, replicate from one to the other and setup a failover, in case of a power outage or...
View ArticleSQL Server 2008 Access issue
Good morning,Currently our research analyst who uses SQL server 2008 management console to pull and import data in our SQL Server database is having issues access data files from our network drives via...
View ArticleAuto increment in an insert statement from a varchar field
We need to create several records via bulk insert in SQL Server 2008 R2. The problem we are experiencing is with one varchar field that must be populated. This varchar field begins with two letters...
View ArticleHow do I monitor access to a SQL database
We're setting up a new ERP system and need to track things like user access to modules, program mod dates and times, DB size, you name it.
View Articlesql server 2008 R2 SP2 to sql server 2014 mirroring
Hi all,I have setup upstream mirror site from sql server 2008 R2 SP2 to sql server 2014. We are going to use this mirroring for upgrading to newer version and host.My quesion is - when I failover and...
View ArticleAuditing Microsoft SQL Server Clusters
I understand the physical makeup of clustered nodes. If I had to audit SQL Server Clusters in Windows do I just verify the following:That Windows clusters across the nodes are created in Windows...
View Articlesccm 2012 r2 error
I'm installing sccm 2012 r2 and getting the following error when providing database infoTextConfigMgrSetupWizard Error: 1 : Exception message: [A network-related or instance-specific error occurred...
View ArticleSQL Query timming out
I have a query that is running against a table that currentlyhas22,796,229rows And I am trying to filter on a varchar(255) and it is timing out. The field is part ofa non clustered index.Text...
View ArticleShrinking SQL DB Logs & Maintaining My Databases?
I am NOT a DBA, but I do play one at work... along with being a system admin, system engineer, backup specialist, blah blah. :)So, I am trying to get a handle on 3 MS SQL Servers running SQL server...
View ArticleSharePoint_config.LDF log file is too BIG (22 GBs)!! How to shrink it?
Self-explanatory issue, but here's my predicament: - I don't have SQL Mgmt Studio on this VM and, thanks to the bloated SP config log file, I don't have room to install it. - I have another VM that...
View ArticleSQL Server Developer
Can any good SQL Server developer troubleshoot query problems in a contact management or ERP system that runs on SQL server even though they are not familiar with the application itself?For example,...
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Can any good SQL Server developer troubleshoot query problems in a contact management system that runs on SQL server even though they are not familiar with the application itself?For example, can I...
View ArticleDSN connector fails
We created a new ODBC/system dsn connector for AWS for MS Access to relink specific tables on the new AWS SQLserver, the connection strings to the server are good.It was created fine, no worriesWhen we...
View ArticleSQL Server Instance Question
Regarding the 50 instance limit on SQL Server 2012:Does anyone know if this instance limit includes Analysis Services instances? The technet documentation is referring to both as 'instances' but...
View ArticleSQL Backup to weekday folder?
Hi All-My and my co-worker (neither of us know SQL very well other than Admin tasks) are trying to setup SQL backups to go into a specific folder depending on the day of the week.For production servers...
View ArticleMystery Records - SQL
I hope I'm just tired from the data migration, but I can't figure out why I have this problem.I created a temp table of orders which yields 324050 records.When I join my temp order table to another...
View Articlehow to edit the built in SCCM reports for drivers
Hi there,I am having a hard time modifying a built in report that comes with system center. the reason for this is that I know next to nothing about writing SQL/WQL queries. the report I am trying to...
View ArticleSQL Data Tools 2016 Availability
Is this available at all? I see it was coming... https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/1590059-sql-server-2016-global-availability-june-1st-2016I understand that you'll be able to deploy to 2012,...
View ArticleHelp, my DB crashed! Can I merge data between Databases?!
I am new to working with SQL Server/DBA. There is nobody else here that can help. Our SQL Server 2014 lost it's log files when that drive went offline this morning. I did a Veeam VM Instant Recovery...
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Get the low down on SQL Server 2016
On today's episode of On The Air, Spicehead,shivarrwas back in the building people! Joining him on set was Mark from Microsoftand Carlos from Hewlett Packard Enterpriseto give us the low down...
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