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Category: Administration

Removing TempDB data files from SQL Server

Posted on 01/05/201701/05/2017 by Lincoln Bovee'

I had a situation where a SQL Server 2016 install did not install correctly. The install completed but when I tried to move…

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Protected: Installing SQL Server on Linux

Posted on 11/28/201608/27/2018 by Lincoln Bovee'

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Using the KILL command

Posted on 11/22/2016 by Lincoln Bovee'

You can view the status of a KILL command used to stop an open transaction by typing the following:

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KILL [SPID] WITH STATUSONLY

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About Replication

Posted on 09/28/201610/06/2016 by Lincoln Bovee'

Questions: 1. Does TR copy schema changes? (It does not. It’s a lot like CDC in many ways) Setup Transaction Replication in SQL…

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Tearing down SQL Server Replication

Posted on 06/17/201606/20/2016 by Lincoln Bovee'

I recently was engaged in updating the Compatibility Mode of our production databases to 110 (2012) in preparation for upgrading them all to…

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Manually removing log-shipping

Posted on 04/25/201601/31/2017 by Lincoln Bovee'

I have had a number of situations where log-shipping broke and I needed to rebuild it but could not drop the log-shipping configuration…

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Resolving the “Backup detected log corruption in database”

Posted on 04/14/201612/01/2017 by Lincoln Bovee'

I saw this in the SQL logs today. It looks like some corruption happened in the transaction log of a specific database. I…

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MSDB is in “Recovery Pending” state

Posted on 04/14/2016 by Lincoln Bovee'

I had a SQL Server at work today where I found the msdb database in “Recovery Pending” state. After reading a number of…

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Moving the TempDB database to a new drive

Posted on 03/22/201609/16/2017 by Lincoln Bovee'

Often you will need to add or move the tempDB data files, either to match the core count (up to 8 as best…

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Moving system databases to a new drive

Posted on 03/22/201603/10/2017 by Lincoln Bovee'

A common task for any DBA building new SQL servers is to relocate where SQL Server stores user and system databases. This post…

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