Comments for belle's sql musings

Comment on I’ve been tagged – Three Things That Got Me Here by belle

belle — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 20:35:13 +0000

because I was impatient, I guess. I really wanted to get in. No regrets at all though, I think the full time format worked great for me.

Comment on I’ve been tagged – Three Things That Got Me Here by Vitaly

Vitaly — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 20:32:03 +0000

What a story, uh!?;)

>BCIT turned me away..

Why not to take evening classes? 12 credits of evening classes is considered “full-time”. It would also lead to diploma or degree.

Comment on SQL Server PowerShell : How to Backup SQL Server Databases Using SMO and PowerShell by ashraf

ashraf — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 17:54:49 +0000

Great. thanks for the helpful code.

Comment on Becoming a DBA – the Right and Not-So-Right Reasons by Tim Mitchell

Tim Mitchell — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 01:09:43 +0000

Good post. You’re right that a person should at least have a modest liking of databases to be an effective database professional – you can do the job and still hate it, but you won’t have that natural curiosity to learn all you can about your trade if it’s just a job.

Apart from that, if someone doesn’t enjoy their career (whatever it is), there’s probably something that they’re better at. Life’s too short to spend 1/3 of it doing something you hate.

Comment on Resolving “A network-related or instance-specific error occurred while establishing a connection to SQL Server…” by Sam

Sam — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 22:38:25 +0000

Excellent ….

Comment on SQL Server PowerShell : How to Restore SQL Server Databases Using SMO and PowerShell by AKP

AKP — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 17:52:27 +0000

NIce Scripts. But how to disconnect all users before the restore process ? I am getting restore failure because of existing connections to the database.

Comment on Resolving “A network-related or instance-specific error occurred while establishing a connection to SQL Server…” by belle

belle — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 22:04:40 +0000

it might be a refresh issue .. perhaps your instance was restarted some time a week after, and when it tries to restart the services, it cannot anymore because the username/password is no longer valid. it could be a possible scenario..

Comment on Resolving “A network-related or instance-specific error occurred while establishing a connection to SQL Server…” by Colleen

Colleen — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 22:00:29 +0000

Thanks for the post. My first error message was “Cannot generate SSPI context” when trying to connect using Windows Authentication. Connecting via SQL Server Authentication worked. Rebooting the server then gave the “A network-related or instance-specific error ….” Scenario #2 stuck out and I checked the services, they weren’t running. Then I remembered a week earlier an administrator had been terminated and the Administrator password changed. Why it took AD a week to cause the first error with Windows Authentication is what I do not understand.