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SQL SERVER – How to Change Authentication Mode Using T-SQL Query
One of my clients asked an interesting question. It took a while for me to figure out the answer so sharing with my blog readers. In this blog, we would learn how to change authentication mode of SQL...
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SQL SERVER – Azure Key Vault Deletion Error – Vault ‘ProdRecoveryVault’...
Along with my performance consulting, I also help many clients in fixing some quick issue. You can refer to various consulting services which I provide. This blog is an outcome of one such engagement...
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SQL SERVER – Always On Secondary Replica Huge Redo Queue – Version Store is...
One of my earlier clients to whom I helped in configuration Always On Availability Group came back to me with strange behavior. In this blog, we would discuss error Version store is full. New...
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SQL SERVER – Unable to Create Always On Listener – Attempt to Locate a...
This is one of the common causes in Always On for which my clients contact me – “Unable to create listener”. In this blog we would learn about how to fix event Id 1212 – Attempt to locate a writeable...
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SQL SERVER – Always On Availability Groups and Full-Text Index
One of the most successful offerings from me has been Comprehensive Database Performance Health Check. Sometimes during my assistance, some random issues appear which I try to solve as well. In a...
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SQL SERVER – Reporting Services Not Starting After Maintenance Window
This is the issue faced on my test server and I found something interesting. In this blog, we would learn about one of the reasons why SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) couldn’t start after regular...
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SQL SERVER – XML Document Could Not be Created Because Server Memory is Low....
Most of my earnings come from my role as SQL Server Performance Tuning and Optimization consultant. Every single day I work with few customers so that I can maintain the quality of my work with each of...
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SQL SERVER – Unable to Start Service SQLSERVERAGENT on Server (mscorlib)
There are several reasons for the error mentioned in the blog title. In this blog, we would learn about one of the causes of error Unable to start service SQLSERVERAGENT on a server. When my client...
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SQL SERVER – Script level upgrade for database ‘master’ failed because...
I have helped many clients in upgrade failures via my On-Demand consulting and I am amazed to see various ways which can break SQL Server upgrade. In this blog we would learn about fixing error Script...
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SQL SERVER – AlwaysOn – Queries Waiting for HADR_AR_CRITICAL_SECTION_ENTRY
In the past few days, I am being contacted by clients for AlwaysOn related issue. I have been writing a blog about them. In this blog, we would learn about how to fix wait for...
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SQL SERVER – Initializing the FallBack Certificate Failed With Error Code: 1,...
One of my clients came with an issue with SQL Server startup. As per them, they just changed the password of SQL Server Service account using the configuration manager. In this blog we would learn...
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SQL SERVER – Steps to Change IP Address of SQL Server Failover Cluster Instance
There have been many questions in my mailbox asking about exact steps to change the windows cluster and SQL failover cluster IP address to the new VLAN. In this blog, I would outline the steps which...
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SQL SERVER – Get List of the Logical and Physical Name of the Files in the...
One of the most popular questions I often receive is why do I like to do consultation – my answer is very simple – it gives me an opportunity to learn continuously learn new things from my clients....
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SQL SERVER – OLE DB Provider ‘Microsoft.ACE.OLEDB.12.0’ for Linked Server...
There are many situations where you have to create a linked server to Microsoft Excel and read data from there. While doing that, I encountered an error and in this blog, we would discuss how to fix...
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Data Privacy – Are Your Database Processes Fully Compliant?
This year has been filled with data privacy and protection concerns. From the introduction of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the exposure of data breaches at Cambridge Analytica,...
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SQL SERVER – SQL Server Agent Missing in SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
Learning never stops when you are a consultant. While doing my recent Comprehensive Database Performance Health Check my client asked an interesting question. He informed that he is not able to see SQL...
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SQL SERVER – What is the Meaning of PREEMPTIVE_HTTP_EVENT_WAIT? How to Fix it?
While playing with my SQL Server in Azure VM, I faced an interesting issue. I did some change in networking to avoid internet access by creating an outbound rule and then I started facing this issue....
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SQL SERVER – The OLE DB Provider “Microsoft.ACE.OLEDB.12.0” for Linked Server...
Here is another blog which explains a situation I was in while reading data from excel. In this blog, we would talk about error “Access Denied” error while using The OLE DB provider...
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SQL SERVER – Unable to Uninstall – Index was Outside the Bounds of the Array
This was an interesting error which I received while trying to uninstall SQL Server. In this blog, we would learn how to fix error Index was outside the bounds of the array, which might come during...
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SQL SERVER – SETUP Error: The Syntax of Argument “/ACTION” is Incorrect
Recently, I was trying to uninstall SQL Server via command prompt and faced an interesting situation. In this blog, we would learn about the error “The syntax of argument “/ACTION” is incorrect” and...
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