We're doing some house cleaning at work (some servers are getting moved around in the datacenter, etc etc) and so one of the test boxes I use here at work finally got moved into the datacenter. Great, ...

Microsoft announced this week that it is having problems with ISO releases of SQL Server 2012 Service Pack 2. Service Pack 2 for SQL Server 2012 was released last month. However, there's a problem ...

With over two decades of IT experience, Microsoft data platform MVP Thomas LaRock has seen nearly every SQL Server troubleshooting nightmare under the sun. In an upcoming session called "The Top 5 ...

I am experiencing a problem with a data feed. The source data is stored in Lotus Notes. An LEI job is used to push this data to SQL Server. This process links on a Primary Key and updates if the ...

Look at event logs on the server around the time the reboot occurred. If you see any entry that says something about “expected shutdown occurred before started,” the problem you’re looking for may be ...