There were a few emails about login times so I figured it warranted a blog post. Strap in, this one goes sideways fast. Some people noted that the amount of time to log in with a SQL Login in SQL Server 2025 all of a sudden took longer. This is clearly stated in the Docs, […]
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 […]
This issue was a fun one, brought to me due to a single replica in an availability group constantly having an issue where it seemed that SQL Server just stopped processing certain requests. If you’re reading this and thinking to yourself, “Just one replica in the topology? What’s different with that one replica?” then give […]
It feels like only yesterday I was complaining about Sentinel One trying to take the crown for shittiest security software. Afraid they may be dethroned, CrowdStrike hit back and hit back hard! It started off with a report that Erik loves some big memory grants and cannot lie. One of the worst monitoring tools for […]
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 […]
Security must be making the rounds again as I’ve recently had quite a few inquiries about a “vulnerability” in SQL Server connections. I am in the camp of, if it isn’t easy to exploit or is completely theoretical and the exploit is barely an inconvenience such as, “could allow a local admin user to rearrange […]
I would say I’m surprised but… ahem… I’m not. My own snarkyness aside, I’m not sure what updates have or haven’t been pushed out by CrowdStrike but there have been at least three incidents in the last week all caused by the software. Whatever the case may be, I wanted to put out a public […]
Note (4/30/2021): DPA/SolarWinds still executes queries to turn this TF on, even though they’ve been told multiple times by myself and others that it no longer exists. You might want to get a better monitoring product if you’re still using this.Note (7/4/2021): I’m a random person on the internet, but I also work with SQL […]
