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Question I am trying to import a bacpac file to my SQL Server Express 2016. An exception is thrown during the import with Returns: Incorrect syntax near ‘ADMINISTER’. I am running the import as the sa user. Later when I try to run the SQL … [Read More]

Question Our team is migrating one of our databases to Amazon RDS MS SQL Server. As part of that, we have to rewrite some of our stored procedures. We have a stored procedure that performs a database backup to a network storage. The above stored … [Read More]

Question When I am running: Ctrl+Alt+R will run the web browser in an SSMS tab. However, this now produces the message: I do have MS Edge installed but SSMS is not finding it. What should I do to help SSMS find MS Edge and use … [Read More]

Question I have a SQL query that looks for values in a table on a range of dates. If no record is found, I would like to generate rows with default values. Example of one of the table existing records: DeviceId Time Context Value 1 … [Read More]

Question This is a weird one, and I’ve run out of ideas for how to go about troubleshooting this. Here’s the issue, best as I can sum it up. The SQL Server engine and Agent services are not started when the server first boots when … [Read More]

Question We have a few Basic Availability groups in production and I’ve been reading about the limitations of them. I’m concerned about the following limitations: No backups on secondary replica. No integrity checks on secondary replicas. Suppose that we haven’t failed over in months. In … [Read More]

Question I am converting the times of some datetimeoffset columns from UTC to Eastern. I am doing this via the command This seemed to be working correctly (times were shifted 4 hours earlier and now have a -04:00 offset, exactly what I wanted), but then … [Read More]