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 […]
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 […]
Issue Introduction I was sent a quite an interesting email stating that SQL Server would not shut down. Attempting to stop the service via services or the SQL Server Configuration Manager resulted in a timeout with SQL Server still running. Trying to execute the shutdown with and without NOWAIT T-SQL command resulted in the same, […]
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 […]
Overall Introduction I’ve had some feedback that people would like to know some of the stuff I see and how I ended up finding the issue and troubleshooting the problem. I present to you a new heading/series called “olved steries”. If you’re wondering, “What is this name and do you not know how to spell?” […]
