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PowerShell Help Notes

Posted on 05/25/201601/10/2017 by Lincoln Bovee'

A neat feature I just discovered was the -ShowWindow toggle when using Get-Help. This toggle allows you to redirect your output when using…

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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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Resolving “Cannot resolve collation conflict for equal to operation”

Posted on 03/21/201605/10/2016 by Lincoln Bovee'

I recently had to run a query for one of our developers where the script was inserting a number of rows. All went…

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“Why can’t I truncate my log file?!?”

Posted on 03/07/201603/08/2016 by Lincoln Bovee'

I found a VERY useful query from Brent Ozar’s daily emails that go out on how you can check for the reason SQL…

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Unblocking files downloaded from the Internet with IE

Posted on 02/16/2016 by Lincoln Bovee'

You can unblock a file downloaded from the Internet using IE as follows:

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Unblock-File -Path ./myfile.zip

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Shrinking TempDB and what to do when it doesn’t

Posted on 02/04/201605/10/2016 by Lincoln Bovee'

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.…

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