database Archives - matt thornton

SQL Database login for x on x failed. Login failed for x. Event ID: 3351

February 19, 2016 Matt Thornton 0

Below follows some notes on an issue I recently encountered and spent best part of a day troubleshooting. This was occurring in a small SharePoint environment but I suspect it could occur in any environment which has some sort of distributed call to a SQL Server. TL;DR – it was […]

Don’t hack the SharePoint 2010 database

October 6, 2011 Matt Thornton 1

The Channel Islands recently suffered from a massive power failure. Well, in fact, it was 2.5 power failures in the space of three days (one on the Monday, again on Wednesday around 7pm, then again at about 9pm, about 5 minutes after the power had been restored.) One of my […]