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...

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...

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...

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...

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>"...