A connection cannot be made to redirector

Recently I uninstalled an instance of Analysis Services from a server running SQL Server 2008 R2. It was a development server hosting Reporting Services, a couple of instances of SQL Server, and a couple of named instances of Analysis Services.

The uninstall was uneventful, no error messages or issues were reported by the SQL installation program.

After . . . → Read More: A connection cannot be made to redirector

Colour coded SQL Server 2008 sessions

Microsoft SQL Server 2008 has a limited capability to provide a visible alert if you are connected to a production server.

It does this by changing the colour of the notification bar in the SQL Server Management Console, which can be a life saver if you have numerous SQL Server . . . → Read More: Colour coded SQL Server 2008 sessions