Tag Archives: Windows

Nested Virtual / Remote Desktops and CTRL+ALT+DELETE

Posted on June 18, 2020 by thomasrushton

Just a quickie… You need to change your password, so you use Ctrl+ALT+Delete. That’s fine, as long as you’re physically at the machine. But if you’re connected to a remote desktop session somewhere, that key combo doesn’t get through. But … Continue reading →

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Departure of a SQL Server Administrator – What to Check?

Posted on January 3, 2020 by thomasrushton

A SQL Server administrator has left. But what does that actually mean? What do we need to check to make sure that things will continue to work after their Active Directory account is disabled? Some things to check are: SQL … Continue reading →

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Error: There is not enough space on the disk

Posted on December 2, 2018 by thomasrushton

I was running a query in SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS), nothing too complicated, and got this error, unexpectedly: An error occurred while executing batch. Error message is: There is not enough space on the disk. There’s plenty of space … Continue reading →

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Longrunning Query – xp_cmdshell?

Posted on April 25, 2018 by thomasrushton

Flicking through the ol’ Solarwinds activity monitor, I spotted this one day: That four day purple thing on the right? Not good. (The remaining images are from a reconstruction, partly to protect the not-so-innocent, and partly because the first job … Continue reading →

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Patching

Posted on August 11, 2013 by thomasrushton

We had a communication from an Ops team saying that they intended to apply Windows patches to all our SQL Servers in one six hour period. This just felt wrong, on so many levels, including: QA, UAT, DR, Production all … Continue reading →

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