RC4 Is Going Away in July 2026: What CVE-2026-20833 Means for Your SQL Server and Windows Environment
June 23, 2026
In July 2026 Microsoft is making a change that may impact your environment. The change being implemented will make your environment more secure by no longer accepting the RC4 algorithm for the Kerberos protocol by default. The problem though is it could cause authentication failures, services to not start, and Kerberos to stop working. Microsoft
SSRS Data-Driven Subscriptions Missing After Migration to SQL Server 2022 -Troubleshooting Guide
March 18, 2026
If you’ve migrated SSRS to a new server and your data-driven subscriptions have disappeared, or new subscriptions are failing with a generic timeout error, this post walks through three separate issues we hit on a single migration and how we resolved each one. Data-Driven Subscriptions Disappeared After SSRS Migration to SQL 2022 Standard After migrating
SQL Server Critical Security Patch Alert
March 12, 2026
I should just create a blog post template for these, it feels like every 1 to 3 months we have another critical one to share. But here we are again, just yesterday, Microsoft released a fix for CVE-2026-2162. This one can, ultimately, lead to anyone with a SQL login and the ingredients for the exploit
After Your SQL Server Upgrade – Upgrading SQL Server Webinar Episode 4
March 7, 2019
This article is part of our SQL Server Upgrades Made Easy series: Why Upgrade? Before You Upgrade During Your Upgrade After Your Upgrade Recap Chat Upgrading SQL Server – Week 4 “After You Upgrade SQL Server” You can watch the previous 3 weeks on youtube. This is the last video from the webinar portion of the
During Your SQL Server Upgrade – Upgrading SQL Server Webinar Episode 3
February 28, 2019
This article is part of our SQL Server Upgrades Made Easy series: Why Upgrade? Before You Upgrade During Your Upgrade After Your Upgrade Recap Chat Upgrading SQL Server – Week 3 “During Your Upgrade SQL Server” You can watch week one here on the blog or directly on youtube. You can also check out week
Before you Upgrade Your SQL Server – SQL Server Upgrade Webinar Episode 2
February 20, 2019
This article is part of our SQL Server Upgrades Made Easy series: Why Upgrade? Before You Upgrade During Your Upgrade After Your Upgrade Recap Chat Upgrading SQL Server – Week 2 “Before you Upgrade SQL Server” You can watch week one here on the blog or directly on youtube. Please consider subscribing to the channel
Why Upgrade SQL Server? SQL Server Upgrade Webinar Episode 1
February 16, 2019
This article is part of our SQL Server Upgrades Made Easy series: Why Upgrade? Before You Upgrade During Your Upgrade After Your Upgrade Recap Chat Upgrading SQL Server – Week 1 “Why, Why, Why!” This is the first video from the series from two weeks ago. This is an introduction to the SQL Server upgrade
Good information on upgrade to 2008
December 31, 2008
The SQL Server Customer Advisory Team has a great blog and they have a good article here about upgrading to 2008. Lot of reasons to upgrade to 2008 (especially if you are on SQL Server 2000 or earlier). Check it out; http://blogs.msdn.com/sqlcat/archive/2008/12/08/ultimate-guide-to-upgrading-to-sql-server-2008.aspx