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Recently I had to take care of the filestream corruption in SQL Server 2008 database, so I decided to share my experience. The error from DBCC CHECKDB was:
Msg 7903, Level 16, State 2, Line 1
Table error: The orphaned file “00005c8a-00006362-0001...
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Few days ago, I needed to compare tables and find all differences in data between 2 databases on different SQL Server instances. For that task I decided to use the Tablediff utility which is included with SQL Server.
Tablediff utility can be used for schem...
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Wayne Sheffield (blog|twitter) is hosting this month’s T-SQL Tuesday and the subject is “Can you shell what the PoSH is Cooking“. More specifically he want that we blog about anything PowerShell and SQL Server related.
As a DBA I use PowerShel...
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Last week I tested sqlserver.transaction_log event in SQL Server 2012 SP1 CU2. I wanted to compere results from fn_dblog() and transaction_log event. Jonathan Kehayias (blog|twitter) wrote here about this event while SQL Server 2012 was in CTP1.
At that ti...
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Today’s T-SQL Tuesday is hosted by Jason Brimhall (blog|twitter). The topic this month is “Standing Firm”. This means that I should write something related to one of these words: resolve, resolution, or resolute.
It’s the time of year wh...
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If you connect to a lot of different SQL servers with SQL Server Tools (SSMS, SQL Profiler etc.), the list of servers in “Connect to Server” dialog become large. Before SQL Server 2012 there was no way to delete individual server entry from the...
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Microsoft announced that SQL Server 2012 RTM has released to manufacturing and general availability is scheduled for 1 April 2012.
You can download an evaluation of the SQL Server 2012 RTM today.
Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Feature Pack is available here.
T...
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In my last blog post I wrote about various ways to detect damaged pages in the database and how to perform page restores in SQL Server 2005/2008. Same apply to SQL Server 2012. SQL Server 2008 doesn’t have UI support for page restore but SQL Server 2012 Management Studio (SSMS) brings us a nic......
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We all know how backup is important. I usually say that restore is more important than backup. We can create backup but if we don’t know how to restore it, or we cannot because it isn’t correct we have nothing. So always check your backups and restore it on different locations. In situation wh......
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In my last post, SQL Server 2012: Detecting Sort Warnings with Extended Events (sort_warning event) I showed how to use sort_warning event with sql_text action to detect sort warnings in database with statements sent to SQL server instance. We also saw that using sql_text action we know what stored ......
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