Yikes! Cannot recover the master database!
Recently, during patching for a 2019 SQL Server, the SQL services refused to start after the patching. It was throwing the following heart attack inducing error: Cannot recover the master …
Setting Up Database Mail And SQL Agent Alerts With PowerShell
As a DBA, you need to know when there’s a problem on your SQL Servers. And while I highly recommend you use a full-fledged monitoring system, there are also some …
Corruption With Backup Compression And TDE In SQL 2017
Last week I spent a good bit of time dealing with a corruption issue, and as it turns out I may actually have found a bug in SQL Server 2017. …
SQL Scripts: How To Make Sure Your Backup Is Valid
I recently had a case where I needed to download a database backup to my laptop. It usually takes about 12 hours for this particular backup to copy down, so …