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SQL Server Troubleshooting Stories - "y una ración de bravas"

February 2008 - Posts

Next week (Tue 26th/Wed 27th), you cannot miss it! See you at Microsoft TechDays {The Evolution Show} in Madrid
I'll be there, morning to evening, both days (26th and 27th) responsible for an area we have called "Rincón técnico de SQL Server" (SQL Server Technical Corner) where "Ask The Expert" sessions will be running virtually non-stop. Read More...
What does it mean that BACKUP TABLE / RESTORE TABLE are not "yet" implemented?
Say you are one of those users who have been using SQL Server since 6.x days. And say you remember that in those versions there was the possibility to backup or restore a single table. Let's try hard to imagine your memory is good enough to be able to Read More...
I just had to re-publish a previous post because I had made an important mistake
In red I highlighted the changes I've introduced to explain what was wrong in the original version of A tale about solving "Cannot generate SSPI context" and later "[DBNETLIB][ConnectionRead(recv()).] General network error. Check your network Read More...
A tale about solving "Cannot generate SSPI context" and later "[DBNETLIB][ConnectionRead(recv()).] General network error. Check your network documentation" in a shot
I had a customer who was receiving the "Cannot generate SSPI context error" when one, and only one, of his users with a specific domain account tried to log into a SQL Server 2005 using TCP network library and Windows Authentication. It ended Read More...
How an apparently innocent antivirus could kill your SSIS package performance?
Interesting story this one. I've been working with a customer who had a very simple package which consisted of a Sequence Container including an Execute SQL Task (which truncates the destination table) followed by a Data Flow Task. The Data Flow Task Read More...
SQL Server performance counters' library improvement
It seems Cumulative Update 6 (due in mid Feb 08) for SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 2 will include a code change so that performance counters show current performance values while the service is running, no matter what the service state was when perfmon Read More...
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