Issue Introduction Someone asked if I’ve ever had a CU install where you run it and it goes through the extraction process, then right as it hits 100% just exits and nothing happens. Well, that’s pretty weird, and no, I hadn’t. I was, however, intrigued! Since I love my readers, I made a repro of […]
Contained Availability Groups are the most recent update to the Availability Groups feature, and a great update at that! They are completely new in SQL Server 2022, and like any new feature (or even mature ones) there will be some bugs. Enter in some Access Violations (AVs) that may occur when creating a new contained […]
The first video olved stery! In this one we look at an FCI node that will not come online after patching. Issue Introduction This was an issue I almost forgot about, during the patching of an FCI to a new CU, the inactive server patches without an issue – all is well. Upon attempting a […]
One of the most common issues I look at from day to day is some variation of the question. “Why did it take a long time for my AG/Database to failover?”. There are many different meanings for this innocuously simple looking statement, for example was it that the failover time was long or was it […]
Be Careful What You Wish For Just a quick PSA as I’ve had a bunch of questions come up around this since the SQL 2019 CU9 release. You may see these types of items in your errorlog, they are benign. You can safely ignore them. Remember when you said, “Oh I wish I knew more […]
