Whenever it comes time to install SQL Server to a server it’s usually not a big deal to walk back to the server with the disc or share my drive across the network. I ran into a different situation this weekend when I needed to install several versions on a server while on a vpn [...]

I had an admin come to me this morning regarding a SQL Server box that had suddenly gone down. The SQL Service and SQL Agent where both stopped. When I looked at the SQL Server error log I noticed the following error: “SqlSecurityHandler is invoked. Potential buffer overrun detected – server is terminating.” I went [...]