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 […]
Issue Introduction In this olved stery the problem comes as a slow database restore. That’s what I was given, that’s all I have. It’s super fun when someone tells you the issue and there is absolutely no information or data around it, right? Questions That Need Answered Why is the “restore slow” What factors, if […]
