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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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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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Sort warnings events will rise when sort operation is performed in a query and it doesn’t fit into memory. In this case, SQL Server needs to spill the sort operation into tempdb which can result in a very slow physical operation especially if multiple passes to tempdb is needed for sorting the......
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After SQL Server 2012 RC0 installation I noticed a few changes in SQL Server services account configuration. In previous versions (SQL Server 2005 and 2008/R2) during stand-alone SQL Server installation, local Windows group is created and service account for services or service SID is added as a mem......
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