SQL Server error 18456
Working with thousands of instances of Microsoft SQL Server, I often encounter users having issues. A common error is 18456 which indicates a login failure.
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2025-06-18
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Working with thousands of instances of Microsoft SQL Server, I often encounter users having issues. A common error is 18456 which indicates a login failure.
The post SQL Server error...
2025-06-18
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Can you restore multiple differential SQL Server backups
The post Can You Restore Multiple Differential Backup Files? appeared first on Tim Radney.
2025-05-07
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I have recently had the privilege of working with multiple clients who have been taking advantage of Change Data Capture “CDC”. Change Data Capture is a feature that utilizes...
2025-05-14 (first published: 2025-04-28)
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I’ve been working with SQL Server for a very long time. Out of the box, SQL Server works great, however there is regular care and feeding that needs to...
2025-03-17
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Over the years I’ve been called in to work with numerous clients that were hit with ransomware. Even the times that the customer paid the ransom to unlock their...
2025-02-10
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A full transaction log can occur for a number of reasons. Typically it is due to the log not being truncated with regular transaction log backups, or something else...
2025-01-15
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SQL Server has evolved a great deal since I first started working with SQL Server 6.5 in 1998. Unfortunately I continually come across newer systems that are configured with...
2024-12-10
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In the United States, we have our Thanksgiving this month. This is a time where families come together for a huge meal. For many, it is a time to...
2024-11-11
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I often need to shrink database files. I know, ‘shrinking is bad’, however there are situations where it is very much needed. In my line of work, I come...
2024-10-07
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Many organizations do not have in-house DBAs. This can be due to a number of reasons. Most commonly it is smaller organizations that cannot justify a full time DBA....
2024-09-16
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By Brian Kelley
If you're not having success in convincing your organization to send you to this...
By Rohit Garg
When deploying SQL Server in enterprise environments, choosing the right service account model is...
By Brian Kelley
There are always bad actors who will seek to get access to and, likely,...
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I am trying to create and Update query based on a like join. Is...
I am creating a trigger in SQL Server 2022 and want to detect a change in a table. Here is my table DDL:
CREATE TABLE CustomerLarge ( CustomerID INT NOT NULL IDENTITY(1,1) CONSTRAINT CustomerLargePK PRIMARY KEY CLUSTERED , CustomerName VARCHAR(20) , CustomerContactFirstName VARCHAR(40) , CustomerContactLastName VARCHAR(40) , Address VARCHAR(20) , Address2 VARCHAR(20) , City VARCHAR(20) , CountryCode CHAR(3) , Postal VARCHAR(20) , creditlimit INT , discount numeric(4,2) , lastorderdate DATETIME , lastorderamount NUMERIC(10,2) , lastordercontact VARCHAR(20) , created DATETIME , modified DATETIME , modifiedby VARCHAR(20) , statusid INT , active BIT , customersize INT , primarysalesid INT) GOIf I want to detect that the creditlimit was updated, what IF statements should I use? See possible answers