Tim Foley


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Kerberos Authentication and Double Hops

Recently I ran into an issue with the infamous “Cannot generate SSPI context.”  I have run into this issue a few times in the past and it is a problem that usually takes a while to find the solution and fix.  This problem does not deal with just SQL Server.  Usually the help of a [...]

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Reinitializing a Single Article in a Publication

Transactional replication can sometimes be a tricky high availability option to work with.  Many companies are now using it more and more to offload reporting to a different server.  But as we know, making schema changes to the tables in a publication is something that must be done when the application changes or different business [...]

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Recovering System Administrator Privileges

Recently I ran into an issue where I had a SQL Server instance that needed to have a database restored on it.  A pretty simple task, right?  Well, it turns out that I did not have rights on the system to do the restore.  My client did not have a system administrator password and did [...]

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