Dedicated Administrator Console (DAC) - saved an important day for a DBA

Until recently I have just used Dedicated Administrator Console (DAC) to connect just to test whether the connection will be successful. You may be aware that only administrator will be able to access a running instance of SQL Server Database Engine to troubleshoot problems on the server—even when the server is unresponsive to other client connections. Recently we have had such a situation where a particular SQL instance was unresponsive for current connections and not accepting any newer connections,...(<a href="http://sqlserver-qa.net/blogs/tools/archive/2007/08/04/dedicated-administrator-console-dac-saved-an-important-day-for-a-dba.aspx">read more</a>)<img src="http://sqlserver-qa.net/aggbug.aspx?PostID=1252" width="1" height="1">