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View ArticleAzure SQL Server Pre-Login Handshake Error
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Hi guys,the setup is as following: SQL Server 2008R2, recovery model FULL in order to better track what's going on in the transaction log.CREATE TABLE dbo.justnumbers(id INT IDENTITY, number FLOAT...
View ArticleSQL Server backup issue
We are running SQL Server 2008 R2 SP1. There is a scheduled transaction log backup using SQL Server maintenance job that runs at a certain time of the day. The job runs fine on few days and fails few...
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SQL 2008 R2 server with I/O requests taking longer than 15 seconds
I am currently working on SQL server 2008 R2 sp2 on a Vmware server. Everything is working fine pretty much, but when my evening server maintenance kicks in I am intermittently getting the following...
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View ArticleSQL Server 2008 R2 Crash with faulting module ntdll.dll
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