I've been on something of a hunt for an easy (preferably already hosted) method by which I can display a calendar based on an ical (.ics...

Using SSRS report data sources on a SQL Availability Group that is behind a multi-subnet listener is supported, and it mostly works.  Havi...

Sometimes you have an application (like 7 Zip) that uses command line switches without a space between the switch and the value.  If you...

If you search for PowerShell logging, or PowerShell output, you'll find lots of folks who are frustrated by PowerShell's error handl...

We encountered the following error in an SSIS job that launched a PowerShell script, and the job was executing (we thought) successfully.  T...

We recently encountered a bunch of problems with sp_send_dbmail, and they all returned this: Failed to initialize sqlcmd library with erro...

I've been searching for a way to get SQL scripts into OneNote while retaining syntax highlighting from SSMS for a long time now. It...

We had some unfortunate event befall one of our SQL clusters lately, and it’s led to some interesting fallout. First, the TempDB LUN was un...

This is a question we get as SQL Server DBAs all the time:  is this database in use?  Most of us are in the habit of putting this question b...

SSRS will often timeout when starting under Windows Server: The error is:  Windows could not start the SQL Server Reporting Services (MSS...