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 […]
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, model_replicatedmaster.ldf? It was pointed out that the files don’t show up in the typical DMVs and seem to not really be used at the moment. These are the databases used as the basis for the […]
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 […]
