Now this is one was a thrilling issue! Consider the following scenario: You have a SQL 2000 SP4 server running on Windows 2000 SP4 server. After you install some updates, you get an error like this error reported in the event viewer: Event...

Recently we came across an interesting issue. When trying to failover an exchange cluster group, the operation failed with error : "The cluster node was not found", Error ID:5042 (000013b2) This problem has two common causes: 1. One common cause...

Sometimes a two-node cluster configuration is not enough for your SQL Server, as you may want to create new SQL instances, which will reside in a different node than the existing SQL instances. So in this case you may want to add a 3 rd or a 4 th node...

The URL Rewrite Module is part of the Microsoft Application Request Routing for IIS 7: Microsoft Application Request Routing Version 1 for IIS 7 (x86) http://www.iis.net/downloads/default.aspx?tabid=34&i=1709&g=6 Maybe you have been trying...

Recently I received a question regarding SQL Server database Analysis and Recovery. It seems that a pretty huge database got into recovering mode, due to a huge transaction that was taking place, when suddenly the disk ran out of space and the transaction...

At first glance, this seems to be a very simple question, but after a long research in the internet I could not find a clear answer!!! Thankfully, one of my colleagues had the answer and shared it with me :) Strange as it may seem, there are...

Recently we had a strange support request that had never occurred to me before: “Is there any combination of NTFS and share permissions that would allow a user to view a video file over a network share, but at the same time stop this user from copying...

Recently I was asked how to export events from a SQL Server 2005 and send them to the Event Viewer Log, so that the SCOM administrator could see these events. As I found out, there existed no “out of the box” solution for SQL Server 2005. The workaround...