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Why My Policy will not Evaluate System DBs
Do you have a policy that is supposed to include “Every Database” as part of its condition, but for some reason it never includes the system databases? The “Every” condition is a built-in condition that cannot be changed and does not include system databases. If you want to include the system databases in your policy you…
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How to move the TempDB Database
Note that TempDB is recreated every time SQL starts. Why is this important? It means we don’t have to move the physical file on the file system. First we need to know the name and file location of the TempDB database files. When you change the location, make sure to keep the same name. Technically we don’t…
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How to move the MSDB database
First we need to know the name and file location of the MSDB database files. When you change the location, make sure to keep the same name. Technically we don’t need the current physical path, but it’s just a good idea to have it documented in case things go badly. SELECT name, physical_name FROM sys.master_files WHERE database_id…
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How to move the Model Database
First we need to know the name and file location of the Model database files. When you change the location, make sure to keep the same name. Technically we don’t need the current physical path, but it’s just a good idea to have it documented in case things go badly. SELECT name, physical_name FROM sys.master_files WHERE database_id…
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How to move the Master database
The catch to moving the Master database is that you must also move the Resource database. Microsoft states that the Resource database must reside in the same location as the Master database. You can see their instructions HERE on how to move the Master database. However, on my cluster I did not find the Resource…
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How to add your CMS server to a group
You cannot add a connection to your CMS server, on your CMS server. Well that is what I thought until SQLSaturday in Houston, where John Sterrett (Blog|Twitter) pointed out that you can use an IP address. I think Microsoft prevents this primarily because you already have a connection defined for it simply by virtue of it…
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syspolicy_purge_history Job Fails
The syspolicy_purge_history SQLAgent job is used by Policy Based Management in SQL server to clear out the policy evaluation history kept by PBM. The job consists of the following three steps. First to check to see if PBM is enabled and exit if it is not. Run the msdb.dbo.sp_syspolicy_purge_history system stored procedure to clear the history Use…
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T-SQL Tuesday Mirroring and SSWUG
This month’s T-SQL Tuesday is hosted by Allen Kinsel (Blog|Twitter) and covers “disasters and recovery”. My favorite DR solution is mirroring. Mirroring is easy to setup and fast, if implemented properly. It’s a database level solution that allows you to keep a remote copy of your database in sync with your principal database. Everything is…
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SQLRally 2012 Dallas
It’s Official !! The host for SQLRally 2012 has officially been given to Dallas and the North Texas SQL Server User Group. NTSSUG is elated to have been chosen as the host for this event. We have hosted three SQLSaturdays in the last 12 months, so we are prepared to dig in our heals. Well,…
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Don’t develop SSRS reports in the wrong version
I had an interesting issue a couple of months ago while creating an SSRS report. I developed my report in BIDS, built it, and previewed it just fine. I was also able to deploy it to my RS server just fine, but when I viewed the report from the browser I got a cryptic error…