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SQL Server Tips: CMS – Connection Error: -2146893019 Severity: 20

Few days ago, I install new instances SQL Server 2022 and the new SSMS by a customer and when I register the instances in the Central Management Servers (CMS), I was surprise by the error coming from the connection(…)

Microsoft:Backup and restore your distribution on WSL

Introduction Hi team I hope you are doing well, in a previous post, we have seen how to enable Windows Subsystem to install Linux distribution. Create a folder to store your backups Connect to Powershell Create the directory(…)

SQL Server: How to see your enable security protocols (TLS/SSL/DTLS) with a TSQL Query?

First, a little explanation about TLS, DTLS & SSL: TLS is Transport Layer Security. It’s a cryptographic protocol to provide communication security over the network. DTLS is the abbreviation of Datagram Transport Layer Security. It’s also a cryptographic protocol(…)

Microsoft Flexible Server Compute V5

Today I had the chance to move forwar with performance testing and some checks on two Flexible Server – Azure Database for PostgreSQL, one with 8vCPU, 64GB RAM and 512GB Storage (2300 IOPs) and another one with the same(…)

Flexible Server for PostgreSQL, Status March 2023

As many know about a year ago I wrote some critical posts about Microsofts Flexible Server for PostgreSQL, now it is time to take a look again. At first, many promised functions where delivered with a latency of(…)

SQLBits 2022 – Levelling up my Performance Tuning skills

As a consultant at dbi services, I am lucky enough to have time dedicated to training and conferences. This week I have the chance to attend one of the most important conferences for Data professionals: SQLBits 2022.

SQL Server: Last duration for all SQL Server jobs in TIME format from HHmmss to HH:mm:ss

For a customer, I want to see all last duration for a job and have a good format for it. The query to do it is very simple (at the beginning…) but when I try to have a better(…)

SQL Server: msdb too big with the table dbo.sysmaintplan_logdetail

Today, I was by a new customer and the I see that the msdb data file was over 4GB. A little too big… To see which table are so big, in SSMS, I select the msdb database, right-click, go in(…)

SQL Server: Cannot execute as the database principal “dbo” does not exist

By a customer this month, I see a very big big ErrorLog file (more than 1,5GB). When I open the file, every 5 seconds, the following message is added: The activated proc ‘[dbo].[IdentityServerNotificationCleanup]’ running on queue ‘<database>.dbo.IdentityServerNotificationsQueue’(…)

How to find the TLS used for the SQL Server connection

For a customer, I do some research to find which TLS is used on the SQL Server environment. The only way is to create an Extended Event. A big limitation is that the event used is only available on SQL(…)