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Continue reading →: SQL Server with Cluster Shared volumes (CSV) – Part 1
Microsoft SQL Server provides us with a wide variety of solutions to architect High availability (HA) and Disaster Recovery (DR) solutions for mission-critical workloads. In this article, let’s just focus on HA, specifically Failover Clustering. Failover clustering is probably the most mature, robust and stable high availability solution which Windows…
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Continue reading →: SSIS Server Maintenance Job – Execute as Login failed for the requested login ‘##MS_SSISServerCleanupJobLogin##’
Couple of weeks ago I was analyzing a server for space and noticed SSISDB database was abnormally huge (this Instance was running just a handful of packages). I noticed couple of internal schema tables in SSISDB were huge (with some hundreds of millions of rows), well that’s not right. There…
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Continue reading →: Locked out of sysadmin, Now what?
In this blog post, let’s see how to regain admin access on a SQL Server Instance in case you lost it by mistake or for whatever reason. It’s not a very common scenario, but hey you never know. I ran into this some time last week(Fortunately it’s in our POC…
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Continue reading →: SSAS – No mapping between account names and security IDs was done.
In this short blog post, Let’s see a strange error which one could encounter when dealing with permissions in SQL Server Analysis Services(SSAS). So, I was working on a DEV SSAS Instance to grant admin rights for our DW team this morning and ran into something which is very interesting.…
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Continue reading →: Pause and Resume Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) in SQL Server
Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) was originally introduced in SQL Server 2008 (Enterprise Edition) with a goal to protect SQL Server data at rest. In other words, the physical data and log files along with the database backup sitting on file system are protected (encrypted). Few things to be aware of…
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