How to move FDLAUNCHERRORLOG from one location to another in SQL 2008
If you have migrated your Database\Instance or if the drive holding the SQLdata has been decommissioned, then in those scenarios how do you move the SQL Full-text Filter Daemon Service Error Log...
View ArticleTroubleshooting Error 511 using XEvents
Now that we have XEvents in SQL Server 2008 and above, some of the issues that required us to capture SQL Server dumps or Profiler traces while reproducing an issue are passé. Move over DumpTrigger and...
View ArticleUpgrade to SQL 2008 from 2005 (cluster) fails with The cluster group 'SQL...
Problem We try to upgrade to SQL 2008 from SQL 2005 in a cluster setup and it fails on the Active node with the following error: From the Summary.txt There was an error during the SQL Server upgrade...
View ArticleSometimes Replication Monitor shows number of Undistributed Transactions as a...
An overview of the inner working of a replication monitor We might see large number of Pending transactions on one of the Publisher in P2P replication. But when we check the Replication Monitor for...
View ArticleSQL Server Backup Simulator
We at SQL Server support team, continue to invest our time in writing tools and utilities which can aid you in troubleshooting SQL Server issues. SQL Server Backup Simulator is one such tool which will...
View ArticleTroubleshooting : Error: 8624, Severity: 16, State: 21. Internal Query...
Sometimes we see the below error in SQL Server 2008 R2 SP1 when executing a query in SQL Server Management Studio: ————————————————————– Error: 8624, Severity: 16, State: 116. Internal Query Processor...
View ArticleSQL Server 2014 Setup Error: ‘BIDS’ is not a valid value for setting ‘FEATURES’
SQL Server Data Tools (a.k.a. SSDT) used to part of product installation media in SQL Server 2012. We can install it by selecting "SQL Server Data Tools" from shared features section. Alternately we...
View ArticleMerge Replication: Expired Subscription Clean Up Job /...
Issue: If you have a Merge Replication, you may encounter the below error message thrown by Expired Subscription Cleanup job (sp_expired_subscription_cleanup) with a mention of conflict table of an...
View ArticleScript level upgrade for master database failed
In this post I would like to explain one of the interesting issues that I encountered while upgrading a SQL Server Instance. Symptoms · SQL Server instance is upgraded using a service pack or any...
View ArticleCapture successful logins: You may see many entries(high volume) when you...
When you are auditing successful logins attempts using SUCCESSFUL_LOGIN_GROUP action group through SQL Audit, you will see that there will be too many entries in the audit file. You may see this...
View ArticleCommon issues faced while configuring AlwaysOn listener on Azure VM cluster
We have MSDN article [Tutorial: Listener Configuration for AlwaysOn Availability Groups (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn425027.aspx) which provides detailed steps to configure AlwaysOn...
View ArticleSnapshot agent fails with Error: 241, Severity: 16, State: 1 (Conversion...
ISSUE Let’s say you are monitoring Replication Agent status and noticed that the Snapshot Agent has failed with the following error while generating a snapshot, particularly during creation of BCP...
View ArticleHow to find which user deleted the user database in SQL Server
In one of the recent scenarios we noticed that a user database was deleted and customer wanted to which user has dropped the database. We know that multiple user had full access on that database. In...
View ArticleError configuring distribution- "Publishing and distribution are supported...
I recently installed an instance of SQL Server 2016 on one of my server. Later when I tried to configure the new instance as Distributor I faced the below error: Error: —————————— TITLE: Configure...
View ArticleSetting up Service Broker where the initiator database is part of the AG
There have been several posts on setting up Service Broker where the database is part of the Availability Group. This is a one stop blog for setting up Service Broker where the initiator database is...
View ArticleSQL Server Service fails to start after applying patch. Error: CREATE SCHEMA...
In this post we would like to explain one of the interesting issues that we encountered while upgrading a SQL Server Instance. Symptoms SQL Server Service fails to start after applying SQL patch due to...
View ArticleCreating and Registering SSL Certificates
A few days back, I was working with one of our partners who had a requirement of creating a SSL self-signed certificate through MMC console. As we are already aware that it is a complex and a tedious...
View ArticleTroubleshooting SSL on SQL Server Issue – AT_KEYEXCHANGE is not set
It is one of the pre-requisites for the KEY-SPEC value of the SSL self-signed certificate to be set to 1, for it to be loaded to the SQL server. Due to the glitches during the creation of the...
View ArticleError: Could not deploy package. Unable to connect to target server.
In this post we would like to explain one of the interesting issue that we encountered while deploying a DACPAC from sqlpackage.exe. Symptoms Cannot Deploy DACPAC Extracted from SQL 2012 Server from...
View ArticleAutomated backups configuration fails when configured from Azure portal
In this post, we would like to explain one of the interesting issues that we encountered while using the automated backup feature for a VM from the azure portal (We can find the option once we click on...
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