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Author: Sean Gallardy

PSA: Uptick in CrowdStrike Issues with SQL Server (Non-Yielding Scheduler)

August 19, 2023 Sean Gallardy 1 Comment

I would say I’m surprised but… ahem… I’m not. My own snarkyness aside, I’m not sure what updates have or…

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Posted in: NotASQLServerProblem, Security, SQL Server Filed under: Debugging, Drivers, Dump, Heavy Sigh, Non-Yielding, NotReallyASQLProblem, PSA, SQL Server

olved steries #4 – SQL Won’t Shut Down!

July 8, 2023 Sean Gallardy

Issue Introduction I was sent a quite an interesting email stating that SQL Server would not shut down. Attempting to…

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Posted in: olved stery, SQL Server Filed under: Debugging, Dump, Monitoring, olved steries, olved stery, service broker, SQL Server, WinDBG

model_msdbdata and log, model_replicatedmaster and log – What are they?

July 3, 2023 Sean Gallardy 4 Comments

There was a question that came up on the MCM mailing list about what are these files: model_msdbdata.mdf, model_msdblog.ldf, model_replicatedmaster.mdf,…

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Posted in: DMVs, HA/DR, SQL Server Filed under: Availability Groups, general, HADR, SQL Server, SQL2022

olved steries #3 – SQL Agent Eating Memory

May 21, 2023 Sean Gallardy 1 Comment

Issue Introduction I was asked if I knew any reason why SQL Agent would be using “a bunch” of memory…

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Posted in: NotASQLServerProblem, olved stery, SQL Server Filed under: Debugging, Dump, NotReallyASQLProblem, ODBC, olved steries, olved stery, SQL Server, SQL2022, WinDBG

What’s Up With AzureAttestService?

April 24, 2023 Sean Gallardy

When SQL Server 2019 came out, there was a new service installed along with SQL Server called, “AzureAttestService”, however there…

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Posted in: Security, SQL Server Filed under: Always Encrypted, Azure, Encryption, Security, SQL Server

Non-WSFC Dumping Woes – Assert in ucsconnectionsend.cpp

March 29, 2023 Sean Gallardy 5 Comments

Setup If you’re using availability groups with read-scale or linux (cluster type = None/External), you might want to watch the…

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Posted in: Dumps, HA/DR, SQL Server Filed under: Always On, Availability Groups, Dump, Dumps, HADR, linux, read-scale, SQL Server, WSFC

Cluster Resource DLL Connectivity In Availability Groups

March 11, 2023 Sean Gallardy

I was recently asked a question, while fixing a cluster connectivity issue, about how the cluster resource dll knows on…

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Posted in: HA/DR, Security, SQL Server Filed under: Always On, Availability Groups, HADR, NotReallyASQLProblem, ODBC, Security, SNAC, SQL Native Client, SQL Server, WSFC

Want To Remove SNAC 2012? Upgrade To SQL 2022

March 5, 2023 Sean Gallardy 1 Comment

I see many questions, and have been on the receiving end of many myself, about out of support items and…

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Posted in: HA/DR, SQL Server Filed under: Availability Groups, Drivers, FCI, HADR, ODBC, SNAC, SQL Native Client, SQL2022, SQLNCLI

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

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