Comments on: Querying the StackOverflow Data Dump

By: jdecuyper

jdecuyper — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 06:18:42 +0000

Thanks for sharing your server!

By: Guy

Guy — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 16:03:38 +0000

Interesting experiment on how you can open up a SQL Server and see if anyone can bust it!!!

Did you do anything particular to the setup of that PC and SQL installation in preparation?

Also interesting to see that the performance is actually quite good even over a remote TCP/IP connection and billions of users connecting! (Is your blog that popular yet??)

By: Weekly Link Post 132 « Rhonda Tipton’s WebLog

Weekly Link Post 132 « Rhonda Tipton’s WebLog — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 02:55:02 +0000

[...] Querying the StackOverflow Data Dump – “Every month, StackOverflow dumps out their data to XML. You can import the data dump into SQL Server, and the whole thing is less than 10gb as of this writing.” [...]

By: Brent Ozar

Brent Ozar — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 13:09:50 +0000

That means there’s a firewall between your place and my place that’s blocking port 1433. Sorry about that, but there’s nothing I can do – other users are connecting just fine. Doh!

By: Danijel

Danijel — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 07:08:06 +0000

Hi Brent,

I’ve been trying to access your SQL server using both domain name and IP address, but can’t connect neither way. What I get as an error message, can be seen below.

TITLE: Connect to Server
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Cannot connect to 71.57.120.247.

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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:

A network-related or instance-specific error occurred while establishing a connection to SQL Server. The server was not found or was not accessible. Verify that the instance name is correct and that SQL Server is configured to allow remote connections. (provider: Named Pipes Provider, error: 40 – Could not open a connection to SQL Server)
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I’ve also copied/pasted the credentials, so there could not be any misspellings.

Thanks for any help.