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SQL SERVER Tools I Use and Recommend (Updated: October 2019)
I just returned from the long road trip to teach 21 SQL Server Performance Tuning Scripts Course. One of the most popular questions, I had received what tools I use personally when I work with SQL...
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SQL SERVER – Installation Error: 25641- For target, “package0.event_file”,...
While installing SQL Server 2012 in a client environment, they faced an interesting error about for target. Here is the information that is taken from SQL Server ERRORLOG. If you don’t know how to find...
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MySQL – MariaDB – Writing the Very First Stored Procedure
As many of you know I am a big fan of the SQL Server Performance Tuning area and I spend most of the time working with the client on various SQL Server Performance Tuning projects. The best part of my...
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MariaDB – MySQL – Show Engines to Display All Available and Supported Engine
My primary job is to help my clients with their SQL Server Performance Problems. The best part of my job is that I get to work with the new client every day on my favorite topic of Comprehensive...
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SQL SERVER – Upgrade Rule Failure Error: No Custom Security Extensions
A few days ago, I wrote a blog about the issue with the SQL Server upgrade where issue was due to Reporting Services installation in a bad state. Here is the link for that blog. SQL SERVER – Upgrade...
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SQL SERVER – Error 17182: Unable to Initialize SSL Support. The Client and...
One of my existing clients contacted me to provide assistance in an issue where they were not able to install SQL Server 2014. In this blog, we would learn about fixing error “Unable to Initialize SSL...
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Guest Posts Invitation and Popular Award
I often get a request for the guest posts and I usually deny them as the purpose of this blog is to share what I am learning every day. However, whenever I travel to various conferences, lots of people...
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SQL SERVER – Improving Deployment Performance by SQL Server Monitoring
Why do organizations keep their entire team ready and available when any new deployment is about to happen? Well, the answer is pretty simple: there are many different variables that can go wrong when...
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SQL SERVER – Mismatch Between sys.database_files and sys.master_files For...
SQL Server is a great product and sometimes some “By Design” behaviors cause interesting unexpected issues which is hard to understand unless you are an expert! In this blog, I would share my knowledge...
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SQL SERVER – SQL Azure Managed Instance Restore Error – The Database Was...
Based on the current trend of moving to the cloud platform, there have been many new learnings for me. One of my clients migrated to SQL Azure Managed Instance and contacted me for an interesting...
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Centralpoint – Digital Experience Platform with Artificial Intelligence
The biggest advantage of my consulting job is that I get to learn new things every single day when I am helping different organizations solve their SQL Server Performance problems. While working with...
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SQL SERVER – Log Shipping Job Error: Failed to Connect to Server
A few days ago, I wrote a blog about log shipping job failure due to missing permission. In this blog, I would share my experience with another log shipping error “Connection Timeout Expired” for which...
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SQL SERVER – Patch Failure – Disk Full: There is Not Enough Disk Space On the...
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, I would share my findings of how I identified the...
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SQL SERVER – Script Level Upgrade for Database ‘master’ Failed – The Server...
I have helped many clients in upgrade failures via my On-Demand consulting and I am amazed to see various ways that can break SQL Server upgrade. In this blog we would learn about fixing error Script...
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SQL SERVER – Event ID 7000 – The System Cannot Find the File Specified
Many times, I feel that I have so many blogs that I must have covered all common possible error related to the usage of SQL Server. But it looks like there are few easy ones which I missed. And thanks...
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SQL SERVER – SQL Server Agent Missing in SQL Server Configuration Manager
If you search on the internet, you will find various combinations of missing services. One of the common situations is to have ALL SQL related services missing from SQL Server Configuration Manager. In...
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SQL SERVER – SqlServerWriter Missing in vssadmin List Writers Command
There are multiple ways by which we can take a backup of the SQL Server database. One of the methods used by 3rd party providers is using VSS (Volume Shadow Copy Service). One of my clients contacted...
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SQL SERVER – Enable Additional Logging for SQL Server Agent
When I searched for this topic, I was getting blogs where they were talking about additional logging for the job step in SQL Server Agent jobs. In this blog, I would share my learning about logging...
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SQL SERVER – Always On Listener Creation Failure – Enabling Object...
In the past, I have written a few blogs where I explained a few issues about the failure of listener creation Failure in a cluster. In this blog, we would see another cause of listener creation...
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SQL SERVER – SSMS Install Error 0x80070652 – Setup is Blocked Due to Another...
While preparing for a demo for my client Comprehensive Database Performance Health Check, I was installing necessary applications on my laptop. In this blog, I would share my experience with SQL Server...
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