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Want to read some tips and tricks from the SQL Developer support team?

Well if you do you should check out the blog of my colleague and Microsoft pool team partner Spike, who works in the SQL Support team here with me in Stockholm, but specialises in the area that we...

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SQL Server Error: 7320 Cannot execute the query "xxx" against OLE DB provider...

Here's a little something that me and my colleagues were looking at this week. Our customer was executing queries against a DB2 linked server using the latest provider and occasionally got these...

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Troubleshooting SQL Server Management Studio with SQL Profiler and Debugging...

(An alternate title for this post could be “How to debug SSMS managed code”) In the first 2 posts of this topic we used SQL Profiler and some common sense to diagnose a problem within SSMS. Then we...

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Access Denied error when running SQL Server Transfer Objects Task with a...

Should you try to configure an SSIS package which uses the Transfer Objects Task, and then execute this package through SQL Agent, when you choose to run the task as a proxy credential, as opposed to...

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Script to run in SQL Server Agent to monitor DMVs, log results and take...

Here’s a script to play with which is useful for simple management tasks. I wrote it to help someone with a TokenAndPermUserStore cache issue (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/927396/) which are...

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The SQL Server Support Team in Stockholm is hiring

Update 23th August This position has now been filled – thanks for everything who submitted their CVs. The Microsoft SQL Server support team in Stockholm is looking to hire a contractor to help out over...

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The Forefront TMG/UAG team in Stockholm is hiring

Following the success of my previous post about recruitment, we’re advertising another position from a different support group also located here in Stockholm. You can read the details here...

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SQL Server performance problems due to high privileged CPU time when running...

It’s very rare that I tell people to blindy apply service packs or hotfixes (especially windows ones) without first analyzing where their performance problem lies, but if you are running SQL Server...

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Extended Event to track and trace syntax errors

This might sounds like a strange requirement, but it can be converted to do a number of different things. The scenario is that for reason I won’t discuss here, I want to track any user / application...

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Compatibility problems between DMO and SMO connectivity on newer versions of...

We’ve recently been looking at a problem which triggered this error: [Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver][SQL Server]To connect to this server you must use SQL Server Management Studio or SQL Server...

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SQL Server blocking caused by database mirroring wait type DBMIRROR_DBM_EVENT

I was looking at a problem this morning about long blocking chains caused by the wait type DBMIRROR_DBM_EVENT, and it makes an interesting case study about database mirroring, blocking, undocumented...

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The end of the line

Today is my last day at Microsoft. I’m off to do something completely different, joining a small Scandinavian tech company called Basefarm. You can continue to find me online here:...

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