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SQL SERVER – Service Pack Error – Attributes do not Match
My virtual machines are my play grounds for any research. A few days ago, on my lab machine, I was having difficulties applying latest service pack. I followed the documentation and looked at the...
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SQL SERVER – Script Upgrade Failure – RsFxFt.Dll::RsFxMgmtInitialize failed:...
In the recent few days, I have found many clients having various script upgrade failures while applying service packs or cumulative updates. Here are few of them. Let us learn about Script Upgrade...
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SQL SERVER – Slow Installation Wizard on Cluster – Please Wait While...
Have you come across a situation where setup is taking many hours while navigating from one screen to another in clustered environment? Have you ever waited for many hours watching following message...
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SQL SERVER – Logon Failure: The User has not Been Granted the Requested Logon...
Sometimes DBA do something which they are not aware of and end up in looking at the logs to see what went wrong. Here is one of the articles I wrote about the changing service account from...
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SQL SERVER – Unable to Add Server Name SQLAUTH-LISTENER to Transport Device...
During one of my consulting engagement about Always On availability group configuration, I found that listener network name was not coming online. As a rule of thumb, I always generate cluster log for...
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SQL SERVER – OS Error 13 – The Data is Invalid OS Error 87 – The Parameter is...
One of my clients contacted me to see if I can provide any help in doing data recovery. Since my expert area is performance tuning, I offered them quick 15-minute time to see what the errors are and...
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SQL SERVER – Login Failed. The Login is From an Untrusted Domain and Cannot...
In SQL Server, there are error few messages which can be caused due to multiple reasons. One of the famous example is “Login Failed for User” error message. If you have seen this earlier, you would...
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SQL SERVER – Msg 3035, Level 16 – Cannot Perform a Differential Backup for...
If we look at the error in the subject line, it is very clear that a full backup is needed so that the differential backup chain can be initiated. If this happens to a newly created database, then it...
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SQL SERVER – FIX: The SQL Server Failed to Initialize VIA Support Library...
My every interaction with client teaches me something new. Recently someone contacted me through email and informed that they have issues with SQL Server Startup. When we checked ERRORLOG, we found...
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SQL SERVER – Service Pack Error – Index (Zero Based) Must be Greater Than or...
Recently I came across an issue where I was not able to fix directly. My client reported below error in Skype, which is related to a service pack. Overall summary: Final result: The patch installer...
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SQL SERVER – FIX: Msg 3132, Level 16 – The Media Set has 2 Media Families but...
This blog is a response to a comment on our blog. Have you ever encountered below error related to media set? Msg 3132, Level 16, State 1, Line 15 The media set has 2 media families but only 1 are...
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SQL SERVER – FIX : Msg 8115, Level 16, Arithmetic Overflow Error Converting...
One of my friends who is a SharePoint expert told that he is getting overflow error while doing check-in on the document. He was confident that the error is related to SQL and that’s why he contacted...
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SQL SERVER – FIX : Msg 3178, Level 16 – File SQLAuthority is Not in the...
Few days back I wrote a blog about error messages during differential backup restore. SQL SERVER – Msg 3136, Level 16 – This Differential Backup Cannot be Restored Because the Database has not Been...
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SQL SERVER – Mirroring Error: Connection handshake failed. Could not send a...
Here is another blog based on client’s interaction via Skype. They informed me that they are trying to execute the command ALTER DATABASE SET PARTNER while attempting to set up mirroring between two...
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SQL SERVER – Unable to Start SQL Service – OS Error 5 (Access is denied.) for...
This was really one of the issue where I was totally confused because SQL Server was raising incorrect error message. Let me first tell you what I was doing. I was trying to move TEMPDB database files...
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SQL SERVER – Installation Wizard Hangs at Service Account Page – The RPC...
While trying to install SQL Server 2012 in clustered environment, client reported that it is hanging at “Please Wait” state forever. Eventually they have to kill the setup by task manager. Let us see...
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SQL SERVER – Clustered SQL Resource Not Coming Online
When I was on-site for the performance tuning workshop, few DBAs suddenly got call as there was an unexpected downtime of SQL Server. As per them, after some maintenance activities were scheduled, the...
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SQL SERVER – Ghost Cleanup Getting Hung and Blocking Checkpoint Process....
Have you even been in a situation where system processes are taking CPU and not moving ahead? Recently, one of my clients showed me a system where checkpoint on the user database being blocked...
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SQL SERVER – Database Mirroring Login Attempt Failed With Error: ‘Connection...
One of my client was trying to convert database mirroring to the AlwaysOn availability group. They had a mirroring configure where the principal server was going to become a primary replica. When they...
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SQL Azure Database – Msg 40197, Level 20 – The Service has Encountered an...
While trying to help one of my clients, I was shown below error which was received using bulk insert command. The command was used to move data from Azure Blob Storage to SQL Azure Database. Let us see...
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