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Win Apple Watch Series 4 and Solve SQL Server Performance Problems
Ask any DBA what would they love to monitor in their SQL Server and I promise you that you will get quite many different answers to this question. Though every DBA would love to see their server always...
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SQL SERVER – FCB::Open Failed – TEMPDB Files Fail to be Created with Error:...
Once there was an urgent request from my client and they asked my assistance. Without wasting any time, I sent them GoToMeeting invite and started working. In this blog we would learn how to fix FCB::...
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SharePlex – Efficient and High Performance Replication from Oracle to Kafka
Ask any DBA what is their dream infrastructure and I promise you that they will narrate immediately a story which will be centered around no downtime and amazing performance. However, when you ask them...
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SQL SERVER – Always On Availability Group Listener Missing in SSMS but...
I have helped many customers to solve complex issues in their environment by Comprehensive Database Performance Health Check. Sometimes, the issue looks very complex but once the solution is found it...
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SQL SERVER – Fix: 400 – Bad Request Authentication Failed for Account and the...
While helping a client with Azure environment, I came across an interesting error. I this blog I would explain cause and fix of error “Authentication failed for account sqlauthprembackup and the...
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SQL SERVER – Error 0x800f081e or ErrorCode: – 2146498530 While Installing SQL...
While installing SQL Server Management Studio 18.0 (Preview) on my lab server, I got an error. In this blog, we would learn about error 0x800f081e which you also might see while installing other...
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SSMS – Azure Storage Error – A Connection Attempt Failed Because the...
This was an interesting situation where I learned something new. In this blog we would learn about error – “A connection attempt failed because the connected party did not properly respond after a...
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SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) – There Was an Exception While Loading...
Recently one of my old clients contacted me for an error execution via SQL Agent Job. They informed that it runs fine when they invoke the package from Visual Studio (SSDT). In this blog post, we will...
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SQL SERVER – SQL Clustered Resource in Online Pending State for Long Time...
While doing Comprehensive Database Performance Health Check I always ask my client if there is any pain point which they have with the current state of the database/server. Once I got an interesting...
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SQL SERVER – Error 1051: A Stop Control Has Been Sent to a Service that Other...
Sometimes there are some random unexpected errors and it’s always fun to find the cause of them. In this blog we would learn about an error 1051 (A stop control has been sent to a service that other...
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SQL SERVER – Patch Failure – Unable to Retrieve the Cluster Service
Few of my clients are still running older versions of SQL Server and they have their own reasons to not to move to the new SQL version. In this blog, we would learn about the fix of an error for which...
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SQL SERVER – Msg 2555: Cannot Move All Contents of File to Other Places to...
Once upon a time, I was trying to remove TempDB database additional files, but it was not working. In this blog I would explain the steps needed fix Msg 2555: Cannot move all contents of the file to...
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SQL SERVER – Availability Group Seen in SSMS but missing in Cluster Manager....
One of my existing clients has sent me an interesting question. In this blog, I would share one interesting situation where my client has created an availability group and it was visible in SSMS, but...
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Visual Studio – FIX: The ‘SqlStudio Profile Package’ Package Did Not Load...
I am not sure what changes I made in one of my Virtual Machine, but I was running into an issue. In this blog, we would discuss how to fix error “The ‘SqlStudio Profile Package’ package did not load...
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SQL SERVER – Cannot Drop the Assembly ‘ISSERVER’, Because it Does not Exist...
As they say – There are more ways than one to skin a cat. In this blog we will find another method to fix an error which you might see during SQL upgrades – Cannot drop the assembly ‘ISSERVER’, because...
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SQL SERVER – New Parallel Operation Cannot be Started Due to Too Many...
One of my clients contacted me via my On Demand (50 Minutes) offering and they were seeing below error message in ERRORLOG – New parallel operation cannot be started due to too many parallel operations...
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PostgreSQL – Storing Unicode Characters is Easy
One of the interesting features of PostgreSQL database is the ability to handle Unicode characters. In SQL Server, to store non-English characters, we need to use NVARCHAR or NCAHR data type. In...
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Why is SQL Server Consolidation Better Than Having a Scattered Environment?
Having a scattered Microsoft SQL Server database platform is cumbersome to maintain, as you continue to accumulate waste capacity to your database servers. Therefore, you should consider consolidating...
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SQL SERVER – Upgrade Error – Cannot Drop the Assembly ‘ISSERVER’, Because it...
A few days back, I published the blog on the same error message and one of the blog reader responded and ask how can I generate the script if I don’t have another SQL Server? In this blog, we would...
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SQL SERVER – FIX: 3637 – A Parallel Operation Cannot be Started From a DAC...
This was indeed one of an interesting error which I have never seen earlier and it is about DAC Connection. Here is the complete error message which my client reported. Msg 3637, Level 16, State 3,...
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