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Auditing Oddities – Why Would a Select Query Cause An Insert/Update/Delete Audit Record To Be Generated?

January 16, 2025 Sean Gallardy

Quite the interesting problem was brought to me by a friend, in that they had a database level audit setup…

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Posted in: Auditing, Security, SQL Server Filed under: Auditing, Security, SQL Server, unexpected behavior

SQL Server, TDS, and Everything Is A Vulnerability To Security

June 11, 2024 Sean Gallardy

Security must be making the rounds again as I’ve recently had quite a few inquiries about a “vulnerability” in SQL…

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Posted in: Security, SQL Server Filed under: Drivers, Heavy Sigh, Security, SQL Server, SQL2022, TDS

Contained Availability Group Creation Access Violations

December 4, 2023 Sean Gallardy 1 Comment

Contained Availability Groups are the most recent update to the Availability Groups feature, and a great update at that! They…

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Posted in: Configuration, CUs and GDRs, HA/DR, Logins, Security, SQL Server Filed under: Access Violation, Always On, AV, Availability Groups, Contained AGs, HADR, Security, SQL Server, SQL2022

Read Scale Availability Group – Failed to update Replica status due to exception 35222.

November 21, 2023 Sean Gallardy

Read Scale Availability Groups can be pretty useful in the right places and for the right things and were a…

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Posted in: DMVs, HA/DR, SQL Server Filed under: Always On, Availability Groups, benign, HADR, read-scale, SQL Server, Weird Errors, WSFC

SQL Server I/O Affinity Configuration Setting – Please Stop

November 11, 2023 Sean Gallardy 1 Comment

I honestly have no idea how or why people tend to use this configuration option, if you know please drop…

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Posted in: Configuration, SQL Server Filed under: configuration, IO, SQL Server, Threads, Windows

olved steries #5 – FCI Node Fails To Online After Patching

November 6, 2023 Sean Gallardy 1 Comment

The first video olved stery! In this one we look at an FCI node that will not come online after…

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Posted in: CUs and GDRs, HA/DR, olved stery, SQL Server Filed under: Always On, FCI, HADR, olved steries, olved stery, Patching, SQL Server, Windows Server, WSFC

Automated SQL Dump Analysis – Beta!

October 26, 2023 Sean Gallardy 6 Comments

One of the things that is lacking in the community is for some simple dump analysis for SQL Server, well…

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Posted in: Dumps, SQL Server Filed under: Debugging, Dump, Dumps, Non-Yielding, SQL Server

SQL Server 2022, Distributed Availability Groups, and FileStream

August 27, 2023 Sean Gallardy 2 Comments

I don’t often find many people using FileStream in their databases (which isn’t a bad or good thing, in my…

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Posted in: HA/DR, SQL Server, Trace Flags Filed under: Always On, Availability Groups, Distributed Availability Groups, HADR, SQL Server, trace flag

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

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