Licensing MS SQL 2016
I'm new to licensing and its doing my head in understanding how many CALs I need for an installation.Hopefully someone can make this simple for me.Intending to use SQL server 2016 with server/CAL...
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SSRS reportserver console without style?
Hi,When access to http://myserver/reportserver, there is not any style applied. I tried IE, Edge, Chrome ...Any idea?
View ArticleCan I install SQL Server Standard in Windows Container?
Moving further into the 21st century, I have a new Win Svr 2019 license and a SQL 2017 license.I've set up a Hyper-V VM for our ERP software and it requires a SQL Server. I've read that installing this...
View ArticleSQL Blob Fields
Is there a simple way to pull out BLOB data into a text field in a view?The table is ITEM Number, Web Description, Detailed Notes, the web number and detailed notes are blobs, that contain several...
View Articlemove MS SQL server from one child domain to another
Dear all,We have Microsoft SQL Server on child domain A. We would like to move it to the child domain B. SQL authentication mode is "SQL Server and Windows Authentication mode".Current:...
View ArticleSQL Access Denied wjen connecting from VS
I have set up a database (QCDB) in my SQLEXPRESS instance. I have added a user (QCast) with serveradmin, sysadmin, and public server roles enabled at the server level. The user has db_owner role at the...
View ArticleProcess Locked in SQL Server 2017
Good Morning Spiceheads,I have a SQL DB server that seems to get the same users' process in a "suspended" state daily.Wait Type?: ASYNC_NETWORK_IO Wait Resource: External...
View ArticleWhy export behaves different than Save Results As in SQL
When I export a table (100 fields and 82,000 rows). the resulting text file seemingly wraps to the next line and put the last 14 fields or 16 characters on to a second line. When I do the following...
View ArticleQuestions about moving from SQL Server on-premises to Azure or other cloud host
My wife's employer has 2 applications which run on MS SQL Server. Only have about 6 users and each database is only in the megabyte to low gigabyte size. They're still running 2008 so it's time to...
View Articlechanging server name in SQL SERVERS AlwaysOn Cluster
Hi there,I would like to change the SQL Sever names. Two nodes with always ON.both nodes names need to be changed.Please let me know the steps
View ArticleBackup SQL Express Database?
I need a free method to backup SQL express since there is no maintenance plan option. What are you guys using?
View ArticleEncryption: hardware vs software
Hoping someone can either confirm my thought process or set me straight in Hardware vs Software DB encryption. With Hardware encryption you are encrypting the full disk, quicker encryption, less...
View ArticleSQL Server License
Is there a way to find out if the SQL server license installation is a per core or a user cal version?
View ArticleMigrate/Upgrade SQL 2012 32bit to 64bit?
Let me start off with OOPS.I recently migrated our databases/3rd party apps from SQL2008 on server 2008r2 to SQL2012sp4 on server 2016. Everything has been running smoothly until I did some clean up on...
View ArticleHow much is a license for the full version of SQL Server 2019
Hi All, I don't work with SQL alot to be knowledgeable about the product, but looking at the website this is available - but i can't seem to find any pricing...
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Rule "SQL Server 2016 edition downgrade" generated a warning
Somehow our production SQL 2016 server is running an eval copy of SQL. And the trial just ran out, and the SQL service won't start due to that, as we found out in the Event Log.So I'm going to use the...
View ArticleBest practices for changing an nvchar(255) field to datetime
This is an existing database with 30k records, copied the table to a test table to try conversions. Ran the command: ALTER TABLE [Tablename] ALTER COLUMN [columnname] Datetime nullgive mes the error:...
View ArticleStrange data conversion issue upon import
The data starts on the backend of a website. From there, I convert it from .csv to .txt and make it tab delimited. The reason is that some of the fields have " imposed on them and then possess too many...
View ArticleConvert year month day in 3 columns to single date in SQL
I have a table that is storing the year month and day in three separate columns. It uses smallint. I need to be able to do a select statement in a stored procedure that pulls the most recent date....
View ArticleUsing SQL Server OEM licenses in a cluster
Gentleman,Is it possible to use SQL Server OEM licenses in a 2-node active/passive cluster? Each server has a SQL Server Standard OEM license... Ok?Rgs, Ladeira.
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