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SQL SERVER – FIX: Msg 5123, Level 16 – CREATE FILE Encountered Operating...

This blog is about another common error reported by many DBA to me. He faced error related to create file in OS. Here is the text of the message. CREATE FILE encountered operating system error 5(Access...

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SQL SERVER – The Operating System Returned the Error 21(The Device is Not...

I always try to keep myself up-to-date with new released of SQL Server. This blog is part of my learning, while using SQL Server 2017, which I always share with my blog readers. This is the error...

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SQL SERVER – Document Your Databases with Data Dictionary and Diagrams

A couple of months ago I told you about the new interesting tool I found for documenting existing database schemas – Dataedo. For those who don’t remember, this is a desktop tool that enables you to...

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SQL SERVER – The SaveToSQLServer Method has Encountered OLE DB Error Code...

As a part of my relationship with existing clients, I provide quick help to them on simple issues. Sometimes it is an interesting issue and I write a blog about it as well. Let us learn the error...

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SQL SERVER – Connecting Specific Database on Starting SSMS

In today’s blog post we are going to learn how to connect specific database directly when we start SQL Server Management Studio. Honestly, this is a very simple process, but I have seen quite a few DBA...

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YCSB Benchmark and Latest Evaluation With NuoDB

The database world is very big and it is very difficult to compare multiple databases with each other. The reality is that every database organization talks about the unique features of their database...

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SQL SERVER – Unable to Start SQL Server – TDSSNIClient Initialization Failed...

I just love my On Demand offering because it gives me more pleasure of assisting clients who are in urgent need of an SQL expert. Most of the time I am called for help when clients are not able to...

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Data Starvation – Balance Your SQL Server – Part 1

With the new Intel Skylake CPUs coming out recently it seemed like a good time to discuss CPU resources and how to know if they’re running optimally.  After all, there’s little sense in upgrading your...

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SQL SERVER – Msg 1038 – An Object or Column Name is Missing or Empty. For...

Along with my freelance work as an independent consultant, I do keep an eye on various forums and look at issue reported with solutions so that I can blog about them to help the community. One of the...

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SQL SERVER – Empty Startup Parameters in SQL Server Configuration Manager

While testing a scenario for my client, I ran into a behavior which I was not aware of. Let us learn about the error which is related to Empty Startup Parameters in SQL Server Configuration Manager. I...

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SQL SERVER – Error Due to Database Context – Error 208 – Invalid Object Name

Today, we are going to talk about one of the most popular errors which user see every day. There are many users who often get stuck at this error and have no clue how to move forward with this error in...

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Learn PowerBI and Advanced Analytics – Instructor-Led and Self Paced Training

If you are reading this blog, you must be aware that I focus on relational database and also in particular for SQL Server Performance Tuning. I always believed that any system in the world can use more...

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Data Starvation – Balance Your SQL Server – Part 2

In Part 1 I covered how much data your SQL Server should be processing and the effects if it isn’t.  Here we check to make sure that you’re achieving that speed. Let us continue learning about data...

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SQL SERVER – Unable to Start SQL Server Agent. Error – Driver’s...

If someone tells me any situation, the first question which I always ask is “What is the error message?”. Now to get the right error message, it is important to look at the right log file. In this...

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SQL SERVER – Installation Wizard Hang Forever – Please Wait on Feature...

Here is one of the situations which I encountered with SQL Server 2014 on Windows Server 2012 R2. I wanted to add “Analysis Services” features to an existing installation. I came up with the feature...

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SQL SERVER – Install Error: Standalone SQL Server on WFC Cluster Cannot Have...

During one of my consultancy related to Always On availability group deployment, I faced an interesting issue. They wanted to install two standalone SQL Server instances on both nodes of the Windows...

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SQL SERVER – Empty Startup Parameter in SQL Cluster on One Node

While working with many clients, I learned that “there could be many problems leading to same symptoms”. In this blog, we would learn about a reason which can cause empty startup parameter in SQL...

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SQL SERVER – The Automatically Saved Settings file NewSettings.vssettings...

After cleaning up some data from my user profile, when I launched SQL Server Management Studio 17.4, I got an error. related to automatically saved settings. Here is the text of the message. The...

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SQL SERVER – Error 1324. The folder path ‘Program Files’ contains an invalid...

Some error messages are so interesting that it takes a lot of time to get the right solution. One of the errors which I faced during SQL Cluster installation is so common that my search was showing...

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SQL SERVER – Fix Error 3271: A nonrecoverable I/O error occurred on file. The...

One of my blog readers contacted me via email for an error message which he was receiving while using the backup to URL feature. Using this feature, SQL Server can take database backup directly to...

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