Issue Introduction I was asked if I knew any reason why SQL Agent would be using “a bunch” of memory and more cpu than normal. You and I, reader, now have the same information to go on. What do you do? Think about for a minute or two if you want before reading on. I’m […]
I was recently asked a question, while fixing a cluster connectivity issue, about how the cluster resource dll knows on which port to connect to SQL Server. It’s not a very exciting answer, which is, “It doesn’t.”. After some days passed I was thinking about the question and answer as though the response I had […]
I see many questions, and have been on the receiving end of many myself, about out of support items and removing them from their SQL Server servers. One of these items is the SQL Server Native Client, aka SNAC, aka SQLNCLI, and I’m sure many others. I remember investigating the connections a very long time […]
