Articles by Andy

Question I am just trying to look up more verbose information for a maintenance plan task that failed. I open up the log file viewer and check the box to view the logs for my maintenance plan. There are no active filters besides that in … [Read More]

Question I’m trying to balance read traffic between two SQL Server 2016 Enterprise Edition instances (Primary and Secondary) using availability groups and the read only routing. Here is my current setup: The servers are in AWS in two different AZ The servers are in a … [Read More]

Question I have a powershell script that I am trying to add in to a sql agent job, but the job step is failing with the following error A job step received an error at line 1 in a PowerShell script. The corresponding line is … [Read More]

Question I am using SQL Server Express edition, so there is no features for backup plan, I want to take databases backup using bat script, and create a scheduler to be run everyday. I have created .bat file but need to place a time stamp … [Read More]

Question In SQL Server, if the Database is in Read_only mode, can we drop/remove unused roles? Please let me know. Thanks in advance asked 2017-04-17 by Bharath Kuamr reddy Answer If a database is in READ_ONLY mode, it is completely read-only. The read-only-ness is not … [Read More]

Question Let’s imagine a stored procedure that retreives data and do some kind of pagination. This procedure has some inputs describing which set of data we want and how we sort it. Here is a very simple query, but let’s take it as an example. … [Read More]

Question I just got a Sql Server 2016 Availability Group setup (A Primary, a Syncronous Secondary and a Async Secondary). I have five databases on the servers. I setup an application to run queries against the server (using Entity Framework with a “failover partner” connection … [Read More]

Question We have a 120GB database. There was table with 60GB of data which is useless and we have truncated it. Now database size is 120GB with free space 60GB. The database will not grow up to 60GB in at least 3 months. So can … [Read More]