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 …
SQL Server Crashes When Hitting 80 Percent RAM Usage
I recently ran into a situation where a new SQL Server would crash hard every time it would get under a load. Here is a synopsis of what we were …
PSSDIAG Error: There Is No Instance Named X
I’m writing this as a reminder to myself for a problem I just had to solve. When running the PSSDIAG tool, if you are running it against SQL 2016 SP2 …
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 …
Fixing “Possible Date Calculation Spin For Schedule” Error
I recently ran into a strange error when trying to modify a SQL Agent job. This was an existing job that had been created a year or so ago, and …