Ergh, not a fun weekend rugby wise. But anyway… Last week Microsoft released an image for SQL Server 2016 SP1 Developer Edition in containers. Previously the only edition available was vNext Enterpri...
We performed an EBS R12.2 RAC to RAC clone and after successful completion of cloning we were not able to connect database using sqlplus command and it was giving the below error: [oracle@racnode1 12...
When inserting bulk data, the SQL Server destination may often prove to be a better option as compared to the OLE DB destination. Read the complete post at feedproxy.google.com/…/...
One of my clients contacted me and informed that after patching of SQL Server, they noticed that their maintenance plan were failing. I asked them to share the complete error message about the Mainten...
Recently, a DB2 for z/OS professional I’ve known for some years sent to me a question about the relationship between the PGSTEAL and PGFIX options of the DB2 command -ALTER BUFFERPOOL. It took a few i...
The notifications emails of a “planned” downtime is one of the annoying things of monitoring systems. You forget creating blackout and you start a maintenance work, and you get lots of notifications m...
While trying to start SQL Service for a named instance, I got an error message related to event id 26 – Your SQL Server Installation is Either Corrupt or has Been Tampered With (Error Getting Instance...
Read the complete post at blog.4loeser.net/…/securing-workloads-on-ibm-cloud-some.html...
A very old client of mine yesterday pinged me with this question about error related to QUOTED_IDENTIFIER. “Pinal, When I run my query it works just fine in SSMS but when I run it via SQL Server Agen...
Read the complete post at blog.4loeser.net/…/location-and-intent-matter-data-privacy.html...
It is very common for people to move databases now a days to the cloud. The very first question I often hear from them is – How to Improve Application Performance on Cloud While Reducing Bandwidth Cos...
Toad's Report's Manager has been around for a while, and it's great at making pretty reports of either a single dataset, a simple master-detail dataset, or complex master-detail datasets with multiple...
