Some days ago, we received an incident about failed restore job which includes quite a lot of steps in it. When we checked why it’s exactly failing, it just says – Unable to open Step output file. Now, that’s interesting!
One of the steps is logging it’s progress in an output .log file which resides on one of the drives on the server.
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It’s was all about the cloud this year. It will be all about the cloud in the upcoming years. End.
Microsoft Days is the most anticipated yearly Microsoft conference in Bulgaria and this year we have had the chance to experience it again. It was second time for me and it was huge in many ways during these 2 days.
Let’s start with the fact that this year’s focus was all about the cloud… as I already mentioned. Public, private, hybrid – doesn’t really matter. Every single session I attended was about the cloud or at least part of it and so, if you or your company is in the “Microsoft space” and you are not thinking and learning about it – you are missing something.
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… и защо въобще да отида на която и да било конференция?
Isn’t it fun to investigate SSPI errors? Really? There’s something magical in the fact that someone is trying to connect to the SQL Server, but can’t (especially if this is the app account)
Last night, I and a colleague of mine faced continuously generating SSPI handshake errors on a server with whole a lot mirrored databases (and yes, it was filling up the error log like you won’t believe). The IP address, where the issue was coming from was, oh do you believe it, the server used to “hold” the mirrored DBs. So, at the moment I saw the errors flying into the error log I was saying to myself: “After some seconds the mirroring will fail”. Continue reading
Tomorrow, on 5th of March, together with Vladimir Simeonov we will give the start of the Microsoft Academy at New Bulgarian University.
Each of us will talk about the importance of this courses and why people with knowledge in these areas – Windows Server and SQL Server are and will be extremely important for organizations of all sizes.
Join us tomorrow at 14:40, Hall 131, Building 1 to learn more about the courses and how they can help you in and for your future career.
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2012 started, isn’t it?
On 19th of January I together with a colleague of mine – Ivan Donev(twitter|blog) will be presenting at Microsoft SQL Server User Group Bulgaria. We are going to be talking about Policy Based Management in SQL Server:
- What is this?
- How can it help you manage your environment and be a better DBA?
- What’s new in SQL Server 2012 and what can you expect from SQL Azure?
- What is EPM Framework and how can you use it in your environment?
- and more…
So, if you’re interested in the subject, hope to see you at 19:00 at Microsoft’s office.
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За пореден път ще започна с факта, че обичам да презентирам! Доставя ми някакво необяснимо удоволствие! Майка ми, например, преди 2 дни ми разтълкува тази ми страст като последствие от това, че тя и баща ми са артисти (музиканти) и са постоянно на сцена. Същото било и при мен – и аз съм бил излизал пред хора и както казва тя съм „на сцена“, но по малко по – различен начин. Какво да кажа – склонен съм да се съглася, че може би съм наследил част от артистизма им, но явно наистина се проявява в друга форма(и все пак нека не забравяме, че съм свирел и на цигулка ). Така или иначе постът ми е свързан с друго. Continue reading
