There’s been a resurgence of people pointing out dumps occurring in SQL Server when using linked servers with the ACE drivers. It’s been on the MCM email list, forums, SQL Server Feedback site, everywhere, and it’s basically the same response every time… ACE drivers were not made to be used as linked server drivers in […]
I have a long history shitting on CrowdStrike – and well, with their past it’s pretty warranted – but antivirus software is general does bother the hell out of me. You’re essentially installing something that interrogates everything on your system and injects itself everywhere hoping it stops a known issue but generally ends up causing […]
Stack Exchange made an announcement with much ado about how they moved to “the cloud” after having a landmark deal with Google earlier in the year. You can safely assume they moved to GCP which is whatever, if it works best for them, awesome. However, I don’t really see this as a good thing or […]
I am often asked about all kinds of various errors, of course with absolutely no context. I also get asked what error X is or means or says… I don’t remember that stuff off the top of my head. The thing is, you kind of need SQL Server to go look it up and there […]
I’ve been writing some technical, some troubleshooting, but all items that come up often enough without a resource that when I see it, I’ll write about it. That’s fun. What I want to know, though, is what items are you all wanting to know about or otherwise are a mystery? Feel free to send me […]
About 5 years ago I had stopped writing blog posts on my personal site. Sadly a few different items had all culminated in the site being lost for those 5 years and I had transitioned to blogging on the official SQL Server PFE blog (RIP). Some may have noticed that most of the Microsoft blogs […]
