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SQL Server service does not start after enabling SSL encryption
I recently had a customer who came up to me with a SQL Service start-up issue. This issue started after they had enabled SSL encryption using a personal certificate. Now, before I begin let me confirm...
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SQL Server Setup: How to validate downloaded image/media before installation
You might be wondering why I am posting about media validation. Isn’t this a given thing, after all you are downloading straight from downloads.microsoft.com, so there should be no issues with the...
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How to identify the row or document that failed to index during a fulltext...
I wanted to write this post for a long time. If any of you out there are using full-text indexes, especially on those tables what contains documents like Office Documents (doc/docx/xls/xlsx) or Adobe...
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Identifying Documents & Document Types that are NOT present in the full-text...
I recently worked on this scenario with a customer of mine. They had a DOCS table which contained resume’s and CV’s of their candidates. This DOCS table was full-text indexed. They noticed that their...
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Service Pack or Update for SQL Server 2008/R2/2012 fails without generating...
I was recently working on an interesting setup issue with one of our Premier customers. The scenario was this – they were trying to patch their SQL Server 2008 R2 instance with SP1 (KB 2528583) and it...
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