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Category: NotASQLServerProblem

CrowdStrikes Again!

August 18, 2025 Sean Gallardy 1 Comment

It feels like only yesterday I was complaining about Sentinel One trying to take the crown for shittiest security software.…

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Posted in: NotASQLServerProblem, Performance, Security, SQL Server Filed under: Antivirus, Drivers, Heavy Sigh, NotReallyASQLProblem, PSA, Security, SQL Server, Weird Errors

PSA: ACE Drivers Aren’t For Linked Server Usage

August 5, 2025 Sean Gallardy

There’s been a resurgence of people pointing out dumps occurring in SQL Server when using linked servers with the ACE…

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Posted in: Dumps, General Info, NotASQLServerProblem, SQL Server Filed under: Access Violation, Dump, Dumps, general, Heavy Sigh, Linked Server, PSA, SQL Server

Sentinel One Is Breaking SQL And Your Cluster

July 10, 2025 Sean Gallardy 7 Comments

I have a long history shitting on CrowdStrike – and well, with their past it’s pretty warranted – but antivirus…

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Posted in: Dumps, General Info, HA/DR, NotASQLServerProblem, Performance, Security, SQL Server Filed under: Always On, Availability Groups, Drivers, Dump, HADR, Heavy Sigh, NotReallyASQLProblem, Performance, PSA, Security, SQL Server, Windows, Windows Server

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 #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

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

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

olved steries #2 – Slow Restore

August 8, 2021 Sean Gallardy 1 Comment

Issue Introduction In this olved stery the problem comes as a slow database restore. That’s what I was given, that’s…

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Posted in: NotASQLServerProblem, olved stery, Performance, SQL Server Filed under: Backups, network latency, olved stery, Performance, restores, SQL Server

olved steries #1 – SQL FCI Failovers

April 29, 2021 Sean Gallardy 7 Comments

Overall Introduction I’ve had some feedback that people would like to know some of the stuff I see and how…

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Posted in: NotASQLServerProblem, Performance, Security, SQL Server Filed under: Always On, Cheater Cheater, Drivers, FCI, GottaLoveSecurity, HADR, IRPs, NotReallyASQLProblem, olved steries, Security, SQL Server, Windows IO

VM Backups + SQL HA = SQL AlwaysOff

September 21, 2020 Sean Gallardy 1 Comment

On, Off, On, Off, On… I see this more often than I’d like to, so count this as your PSA…

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Posted in: HA/DR, Maintenance, NotASQLServerProblem, SQL Server Filed under: Backups, HADR, SQL Server, Veeam

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