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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
Be Careful What You Wish For Just a quick PSA as I’ve had a bunch of questions come up around this since the SQL 2019 CU9 release. You may see these types of items in your errorlog, they are benign. You can safely ignore them. Remember when you said, “Oh I wish I knew more […]
