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Handrawn SAFe Agile Doodlegraphic
A few years back I remember ready an article saying that people who doodled while listening to a lecture retained more information than those who did not doodle. With two solid days of training on the Scaleable Agile Framework (aka SAFe) I thought it might be a good idea to give it a try. Then…
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SSRS Subscription Error: Failure sending mail: The report server has encountered a configuration error. Mail will not be resent.
So, when a SQL Server Reporting Services subscription gives you an error message like: “Failure sending mail: The report server has encountered a configuration error. Mail will not be resent.” You know exactly what to do to fix it right? Just fix the so called “configuration error”. Problem solved! Another day another dollar. Am I…
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Change The Owner Of An SSRS Subscription: The Simple Way
So you need to change the owner of an SQL Server Reporting Services subscription? No problema. (Why would you need to change it you might ask? Perhaps because you have deactivated the user account that created the subscription and now “strange things are afoot at the Circle K”, and if you know that reference please…
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Preventing Failed SSRS Subscriptions: Which user created your subscriptions?
Check it out my friends. You need to keep an eye on which accounts are creating your SSRS subscriptions. Why? Because buried inside the ReportServer database (with no way to change it from the front end) SQL Server Reporting Services is keeping track of this information. And when one of those user’s account is disabled strange…
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Solution! SSIS Error: Mailbox unavailable. The server response was: 5.7.1 Client does not have permissions to send as this sender
While running a 2012 SQL Server Integration Services package, the package ended up failing with the following message: Error: 0xC002F304 at Send Mail Task, Send Mail Task: An error occurred with the following error message: “Mailbox unavailable. The server response was: 5.7.1 Client does not have permissions to send as this sender”. The quickest and…
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Who Has The DAC?: Or How I Found Out I Had The Dedicated Admin Connection On SQL Server
Here’s a quick little snippet of T-SQL script that will hopefully prove handy to someone (and that I’ll end up googling at some point and find my own blog post). Are you trying to determine who is currently using the dedicated admin connection (aka DAC) on a particular SQL Server? Did SSMS give you a…
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Error when trying to use DAC connection in SQL Server
So, one of my local databases got stuck in single-user mode. Easy solution? Connect to my instance using SQL Server’s Dedicated Admin Connection (aka DAC) and flip the database back to multi-user. Easy! Wait. What? TITLE: Connect to Database Engine —————————— Cannot connect to ADMIN:localhost\SQL2012. —————————— ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: A network-related or instance-specific error occurred while…
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SSDT Default Values For Smart Defaults
There’s a handy feature in SSDT (SQL Server Development Tools) that will automatically insert a default value into a column when you change it from nullable to NOT NULL. I wasn’t able to track down documentation specifying what the default values for the “smart defaults” were so I hopped into the SQL DB Pros corporate…
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Add Page Compression To Every Table In Your SQL Database The Winston Wolf Way
So you need to add page level compression to every table in your SQL Server database? I’m not going to judge you. I’m not going to tell you it’s a good idea or a bad idea. I needed to do it in my DEV environment and maybe you need to do it in your production…
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SQL Query To Find Expired Accounts In Active Directory: Knowledge Is Power And The Goodbye List
Alrighty. We’re all data people here so you know we all agree that knowledge is power. One thing that is absolutely helpful in a large corporate environment is knowing if someone has been let go/laid off/fired. Using linked server to query active directory you can fairly easily (especially if someone else wrote the query) see…