Resolving the “Backup detected log corruption in database”
I saw this in the SQL logs today. It looks like some corruption happened in the transaction log of a specific database. I…
MSDB is in “Recovery Pending” state
I had a SQL Server at work today where I found the msdb database in “Recovery Pending” state. After reading a number of…
Moving the TempDB database to a new drive
Often you will need to add or move the tempDB data files, either to match the core count (up to 8 as best…
Moving system databases to a new drive
A common task for any DBA building new SQL servers is to relocate where SQL Server stores user and system databases. This post…
Resolving “Cannot resolve collation conflict for equal to operation”
I recently had to run a query for one of our developers where the script was inserting a number of rows. All went…
“Why can’t I truncate my log file?!?”
I found a VERY useful query from Brent Ozar’s daily emails that go out on how you can check for the reason SQL…
Unblocking files downloaded from the Internet with IE
You can unblock a file downloaded from the Internet using IE as follows:
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Dealing with Database Corruption
Help, my database is corrupt. Now what? Views – 467
Shrinking TempDB and what to do when it doesn’t
This post is based on Tara’s recent blog post over on Brent Ozar’s site: and another: Basically, a query is killing your tempDB.…
Copy Logins to another server with SIDs and passwords
I often need to replicate logins to another SQL Server where the SID and password (for SQL login types, not Windows based) need…