Greg LeClair

Greg is a managing consultant for Catapult Systems and blogs about a variety of SQL Server topics.  Greg holds MCITP certifications in both SQL 2008 administration and development.  An active C# developer, he also holds MCSD and MCAD .Net certifications from Microsoft.
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Mar19

Microsoft Certified SQL Master Training

    "All vague notions must fall before a pupil can call himself a master." - Bruce Lee     This has been one of my favorite quotes for a long time – not that I’m a master at anything, but it’s a constant reminder to seek out and eliminate any vague notions.  As technology specialists and developers, we are constantly challenged to understand things at a lower level – we always h...
Posted by Greg LeClair on Friday, 19 Mar 2010 09:08.
0 Comments | Categories: SQL Server 2008, MCM, Microsoft Certified Master

 
Dec16

SQL Server Restore Errors

  Working in the development/testing environments that I do, this is an error I see frequently as developers are moving/copying staging or test databases from one SQL instance to another.  The error can pop up when you try to restore a database on top of an existing database of the same name:   System.Data.SqlClient.SqlError: The backup set holds a backup of a database other than the existin...
Posted by Greg LeClair on Wednesday, 16 Dec 2009 03:29.
1 Comment | Categories: SQL Errors, Database Restore, SQL Server 2008

 
Dec15

Welcome

Welcome to my SQL Server blog!  The idea here is to share my everyday experiences with SQL server – what questions or issues did I run into today?  How were they solved?  How could they have been avoided?  What should I be looking for next time?  I’ll post about anything I find useful, interesting or weird.  (I like weird stuff.)  I’ll try to stick to SQL server topics, but no promises. I do a l...
Posted by Greg LeClair on Tuesday, 15 Dec 2009 02:44.
0 Comments | Categories: SQL Server Custom App Dev, SQL Administration