VM snapshots are one of the best virtualization features ever. But…have you ever had a VMware vSphere or Hyper-V snapshot grow out of control and fill the datastore the VM resides on? You know what happens… even the best VM admins out there seem to get burned once when they create a snapshot for some…
Month: June 2017
Turning ANSI_PADDING off, and why you shouldn’t
I ran into an interesting error the other day while doing a partition switch. Partition switch failed because : column ‘xyz’ does not have the same ANSI trimming semantics in tables ‘a’ and ‘b’ It turned out it was because the ANSI_PADDING setting was different between the two tables (well, for a single column). So…