You can download “Microsoft Kerberos Configuration Manager for SQL Server” from here    Microsoft Kerberos Configuration Manager for SQL Server is a diagnostic tool that helps troubleshoot Kerberos related connectivity issues with SQL Server. Kerberos authentication provides a highly secure method to authenticate client and server entities (security principals) on a network.  To use […]

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As we all database developers know that a ODBC DSN is an entry that we created through “ODBC Data Source Administrator” that we reached from Start/Control Panel/AdministrativeTools  or typing “odbcad32” from Start/Run . On a 64bit machine when you run “ODBC Data Source Administrator” and created an ODBC DSN, actually you are creating an ODBC […]

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Sometimes pools that we should pay attention to their “hygiene” are not only swimming pools. We should also be careful about our database “connection pool”s. Here comes the story behind this “philosophical” entrance  … One of our customers was reporting an issue when they were about to put their web server farm on production.  Strangely […]

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Let’s say you’ve got a SQL Server (KIRK) containing a linked server against another SQL Server (SCOTTY)  and you’re connecting the KIRK from remote client machine (SPOCK) using SQL Server Management Studio and receiving the error message below when you executed a query involving the linked server :  “Error 18456: Login failed for user ‘NT […]

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“UDL Test” on a 64 bit machine Let’s say you’ve started playing with UDL files on your “32 bit” machine and this tiny little UDL files helped you to identify connectivity issues or you’ve easily obtained the OLE DB connection strings for your applications. So far so good. But one day, you followed the same procedure […]

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