Tag Archives: administration

Migrating a Large Database

Posted on April 27, 2022 by way0utwest

I have upgraded lots of SQL Servers from one version to the next, and for the most part, the process has been smooth. That’s not always the case, and there have been some long nights where the Operations staff had … Continue reading →

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Scripting Makes Mistakes Easier Than Ever

Posted on April 22, 2022 by way0utwest

A number of you likely use Atlassian products like Jira, Confluence, Opsgenie, or something else. You might have been affected by a large outage they had (post incident blog, Company Q&A, TechRepublic report) recently which lasted at least 9 days. … Continue reading →

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Removing a LocalDB Instance

Posted on April 6, 2022 by way0utwest

Another post for me that is simple and hopefully serves as an example for people trying to get blogging as #SQLNewBloggers. This might be obvious and easy, but I spent a couple minutes learning how to remove a LocalDB instance. … Continue reading →

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Starting LocalDB–#SQLNewBlogger

Posted on March 28, 2022 by way0utwest

Another post for me that is simple and hopefully serves as an example for people trying to get blogging as #SQLNewBloggers. Lots of people have never worked with LocalDB, which is an in-process version of SQL Express. No service account, … Continue reading →

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