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Author: Sean Gallardy

DBATools Decryption Issues Are Not A SQL Server Bug

January 25, 2023 Sean Gallardy 1 Comment

Let me start off by saying that DBATools is a great tool that is immensely helpful to the community, if…

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Posted in: NotASQLServerProblem, Security, SQL Server Filed under: Assumptions, DBATools, Decryption, Encryption, NotReallyASQLProblem, Security, SQL Server

What Are PREEMPTIVE Waits And How Can They Kill Performance

November 27, 2022 Sean Gallardy 3 Comments

Primer If you haven’t already read up on cooperative and preemptive scheduling or aren’t sure what those are, please read…

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Posted in: DMVs, Performance, SQL Server, Waits Filed under: Debugging, Demystified, Monitoring, Non-Yielding, Performance, SQL Server, Threads, Wait Types, WinDBG, Windows

SQLErrorCodes Is Now Live!

November 22, 2022 Sean Gallardy 5 Comments

I am often asked about all kinds of various errors, of course with absolutely no context. I also get asked…

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Posted in: Non-Technical

FFS Not Everything Is A SQL Server Vulnerability

October 6, 2022 Sean Gallardy 2 Comments

The Dude I get asked if I know anything about <newest SQL vulnerability as reported by random website>, quite often.…

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Posted in: NotASQLServerProblem, Security, SQL Server Filed under: NotReallyASQLProblem, Security, SQL Server

SQL Server 2022 – Contained AGs – Overview

May 24, 2022 Sean Gallardy 1 Comment

You’ve Asked, It’s Now Here! The largest complaint, by far, for Availability Groups (AG) has been that system databases could…

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Posted in: HA/DR, SQL Server Filed under: Availability Groups, Contained AGs, SQL Server, SQL2022

Auditing To the Security Event Log – SQL Server Error 33204 and OS Error 8

March 22, 2022 Sean Gallardy 1 Comment

It’s Great When No One Asks Questions You’re taking the best steps to track what goes on in your instance…

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Posted in: Security, SQL Server Filed under: Auditing, Security, SQL Server, Windows Server

When Using Availability Groups, Beware of Mirroring Behaviors

January 21, 2022 Sean Gallardy 7 Comments

Many DBAs haven’t had the experience of using database mirroring, since it was deprecated in 2012 when availability groups were…

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Posted in: HA/DR, SQL Server Filed under: App Compat, Drivers, HADR, Mirroring, SQL Server

What Interests You?

December 5, 2021 Sean Gallardy

I’ve been writing some technical, some troubleshooting, but all items that come up often enough without a resource that when…

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Posted in: General Info, Non-Technical Filed under: Your Thoughts

Demystifying Dumps: Stalled Dispatcher

December 1, 2021 Sean Gallardy 1 Comment

Hey Dispatch, We Have a Code 8 If you’ve been following with the series of demystifying dumps then you’re probably…

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Posted in: Dumps, SQL Server Filed under: Demystified, Dump, Dumps, Non-Yielding, SQL Server, stalled, stalled dispatcher, Windows, Windows Server

Demystifying Dumps: Non-Yielding (Stalled) IOCP

November 18, 2021 Sean Gallardy 2 Comments

What’s an IOCP? IO Completion Ports are a set of Windows APIs which allow for efficient, fast, multithreaded asynchronous IO.…

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Posted in: Dumps, SQL Server Filed under: Debugging, Demystified, Dump, Dumps, IOCP, Non-Yielding, SQL Server, Windows, Windows Server

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