When doing an In-place upgrade from Microsoft SQL Server 2008 or 2008 R2 to SQL Server 2012, be aware of this little caveat with SSIS. Last week I upgraded (note, I did an in-place upgrade and not a side-by-side installation) my Sql 2008 instance to Sql ...read more

I realize the title is generic and that is because the problem is generic.   On the surface it would not surprise me that an update takes longer than a select. (A little bit anyway.) There is logging, updates to index rows, triggers, replication ...read more

I was looking at data from a customer, in a different time zone (UTC+1) from mine, this week involving SQL Server AlwaysOn (HADRON) and found that lining up the timestamps in the various logs was challenging.   Some times are local to the SQL ...read more

As I prepare for my next PASS Summit talk for the upcoming 2012 Summit, Inside SQLOS 2012 I was reviewing my talk from last year, Inside Tempdb , and some of the questions and feedback I received. They say it is never too late to provide all the facts ...read more

I recently worked on two Bulk Insert cases that dealt with Kerberos. My favorite past time! In both cases, the customers were hitting the following error: Msg 4861, Level 16, State 1, Line 1 Cannot bulk load because the file "<file name>" ...read more