Windows Server 2008 R2 was released in 2009, but we still have many customers on Windows 2003 (and probably some on Windows 2000 I’m sure). I’ve run into an issue with two customers when they upgraded their SQL Server and Windows version at the same time, and thought I would share the details in case…
Category Archives: Customers
The Most Important Maintenance Task…
We had a customer lose their entire database this week. The server failed in some manner and they tried to recover the database from the disks, but they could not bring the database online. They engaged our group and we tried everything we could to no avail. Until now, the most data loss I had…
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Me: Hey there. You: Hey! Me: How was your day? You: Pretty good, how about yours? Me: Oh, it was interesting. Grab a beer, let me tell you about it… So, it started out with a call from a customer because they had received the error: Could not continue scan with NOLOCK due to data…
Found: Rows from a Merge Join
About a month ago I blogged about an issue I had with a customer where a search in one area of our application returned less data than expected, and a search in a different area of the application returned the proper amount of data. I was able to work around the issue by dropping a…
