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SQL SERVER – Unable to Start Jobs – Error: Enumerate Target Servers Failed...
One of my clients contacted me for quick On-Demand consulting. When I joined GoToMeeting with them they showed me below error when they were trying to run a job. Let us see how we can fix the error...
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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 – How to Execute the Query Without Using Management Studio?
One of my clients asked few interesting questions during my performance tuning consultation. If you are interested, you can check more details here SQL Server Performance Tuning and Optimization. In...
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SQL SERVER – Why SQL Server Service is Stuck in Starting / Change Pending State?
Recently, I wrote a blog about “Change Pending” state of SQL Server service. After looking at that blog one of my readers contacted me via email for the “similar” issue. In this blog, we would learn...
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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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SQL SERVER – Fix Error 3271: A nonrecoverable I/O error occurred on file. The...
In SQL Server one error message can be caused due to many reasons. One of such error message is 3271 which is caused during failure of backup to URL command. Here are two earlier blogs about same error...
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SQL SERVER – Database Attach Failure – Msg 2571 – User ‘guest’ Does Not Have...
One of my clients was trying to recover from a disaster and wanted to attach the MDF and LDF files. While trying to do that, they encountered an error. In this blog we would learn about how to fix the...
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SQL SERVER – FIX: Msg 3231 – The Media Loaded on “Backup” is Formatted to...
While preparing for a demo for my upcoming session, I encountered an interesting error. I thought I have written a blog about it, but I was wrong. My earlier blog was about a different error which...
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SQL SERVER – FIX: Error 14001: The Application Has Failed to Start Because...
There are so many ways to break things in the operating system. In this blog, we would learn about fixing error “The application has failed to start because its side-by-side configuration is not...
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SQL SERVER – The Report Server Cannot Open a Connection to the Report Server...
When my clients contact me for any issue, I always try to help them or redirect them to someone who can help them better than me. Once a client contacted me for an issue with SQL Server Reporting...
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QL SERVER – Unable to Create Listener: Msg 41009 – The Windows Server...
One of my clients contacted me for quick On-Demand consulting. They were working under close deadlines and delivering the solution on time was critical for their success. They contacted me and...
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SQL SERVER – AlwaysOn Automatic Seeding – Database Stuck in Restoring State
As a part of my consulting, I observed that there is a lot of interest in using AlwaysOn availability group. I have deployed many AlwaysOn solutions from start-to-finish. Recently I encountered an...
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MySQL – Connection Error – [MySQL][ODBC 5.3(w) Driver]Host ‘IP’ is Not...
One of my clients contacted me for a linked server issue between SQL Server and MySQL Server. Since I mostly work with SQL Server, it was a fun installing and connecting MySQL Server. While I was...
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SQL SERVER – Mirroring Error 1456 – The ALTER DATABASE Command Could not be...
As a part of my consulting, I still get few clients who prefer to use database mirroring over Always On Availability Group. In this blog we would cover about one possible cause of database mirroring...
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SQL SERVER – FIX: Backup Detected Log Corruption in database MyDB. Context is...
During my consulting, I guide my clients to have a backup plan in place. One of my clients reported that whenever they try to take a Full Backup of a database, it fails precisely after 60% completion....
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