Installing SQL Server 2005 SP3 or SQL Server 2008 on XP Prep SP3 can cause...
The SQL Server CSS team has just posted a blog post saying that it you install SQL Server 2005 SP3 or SQL Server 2008 on a Windows XP Machine which is pre SP 3 you can get a Bug Check (Blue Screen). If...
View ArticleSQL 2008 Clusters require treaking to make SQL Dumpter work
If you don’t already read the CSS teams blog, I suggest that you do. A little while ago they posted a blog post about how the SQL Dumper utility wouldn’t work in a SQL Server 2008 Clustered...
View ArticleSQL Server Standard Edition getting Lock Pages in Memory
Microsoft SQL Server 2005 and 2008 Standard edition will be getting the Lock Pages in Memory feature that SQL Server Enterprise Edition has had starting in SQL Server 2005. This was announced by Bob...
View ArticleIf you change the default instances port number, you may not be able to connect
Something that some companies like to do is to change the port number that the default instance is listening under as a security precaution. However this has a habit of stopping anyone from connecting...
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Fragmentation may cause corruption
Let me start this off by saying that I chose the title of this blog post very carefully. You’ll note that it says “fragmentation may cause corruption” not that it will cause corruption, so before you...
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TempDB latch timeouts with lots of RAM
Recently I had an interesting problem where the SQL Server 2008 R2 instance would randomly in the middle of the morning start having latch timeouts on various tempdb database pages. The first...
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