Reading list for the week – 26/09/11
This week I have quite a few very good articles listed in the Reading list for the week. The list begins with a post from the master himself, Paul Randal (b | t). In How does DBCC CHECKDB WITH...
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In this edition of Reading list for the week, I am presenting you with some of the Microsoft KB articles which were updated recently. How to use Kerberos authentication in SQL Server – In this article...
View ArticleReading list for the week – 10/10/11
Here are the top items in my Reading List for this week. Itzik Ben-Gan (b | t) in his post Denali T-SQL at a Glance – New and Enhanced Functions talks about the new and improved functions in SQL Server...
View ArticleReading list for the week – 17/10/11
In this week’s edition, I have got quite a few good links lined up. The big new first. SQL Server code-named “Denali” gets an Official Name. In the recently concluded PASS Summit 2011 it was announced...
View ArticleReading list for the week – 24/10/11
I am starting off this week’s Reading List with an article related to Hotfix Service Model. This article has good information on how Microsoft SQL Server team uses the Incremental Model to deliver...
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Service does not start | TDSSNIClient initialization failed with error...
Yesterday on my local instance, SQL Server service failed to start. The SQL Server error log had the following entries in it. 2012-12-31 12:31:26.58 Server Error: 17190, Severity: 16, State: 1....
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SQL Server Install | Use Role Management Tool to install Microsoft .Net...
I was trying to setup SQL Server 2008 on my lab machine running on Windows Server 2008 R2. When the setup was installing the prerequisites, the following error message popped up. This is a very simple...
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Database mirroring cannot be enabled because the database is not in full...
Recently I had worked on a mirroring issue. While initializing mirroring, an error message as shown in the below screenshot is encountered. Here’s how this issue was fixed Check if the recovery model...
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Jobs fail with “Cannot execute as the database principal because the...
Recently I worked on an issue in which the jobs which were running fine started failing all of the sudden. The job history had the following error message. Cannot execute as the database principal...
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Add node fails with Attempted to read or write protected memory error
Recently I had worked on an issue where the end user was trying to add a third Node to an existing 2 node cluster. Soon after the setup is intiated, it would fail with the following error message...
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SQL Server Agent failing to start with the error “StartServiceCtrlDispatcher...
Recently I worked on an issue where SQL Server Agent was failing to start. Before this there was some problems with the disks on the server and the databases were restored from backups. I started...
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Log reader fails with “The process could not execute ‘sp_replcmds’ ” error
Recently I worked on an issue in which the Replication wasn’t working right after setting it up. The Publication and the subscriptions were created successfully but the subscription was still...
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Create and connect to a SQL Database on Windows Azure
Azure, is one of the fastest growing cloud platform by Microsoft. In this simple post, I will create and connect to a SQL Database on Microsoft Azure. To get started logon to the Microsoft Azure...
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How to extract the contents of .MSP files
I had encountered an issue while installing a SQL Server service pack. The resolution for it was to replace the existing SQL Server binaries from that of a Service Pack. To extract the contents of a...
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Export the Event Logs without opening MMC
I recently worked on a database corruption issue. In order to troubleshoot this I had to collect all the Event Logs from the server. But when I tried to open Event Viewer, MMC would fail with the...
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CDC job failing with “Unable to add entries to the Change Data Capture LSN...
I got a chance work on CDC job failure issue recently. The customer had configured CDC on the database but it wasn’t working as expected. Hence he had disabled/enabled CDC multiple times on this...
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SQL Server Cluster resource fails with “Data source name not found and no...
Last week I had worked on SQL Server 2008 R2 installation on a Windows Cluster. The installation would go fine until the installer tries to bring the SQL Server resource online. At that time it would...
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Application timing out due to excessive blocking on tempdb PFS
Problem Applications Connecting to SQL Server timing out Symptoms Excessive blocking with the wait resource being tempdb PFS page High CPU utilization on the server Troubleshooting sys.dm_exec_requests...
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No transaction is active message when accessing Linked Server
Last week I had worked on an issue related to Linked Server. The customer had migrated the SQL Server Instances to Virtual Servers. They had quite a few Linked Servers setup. After migration any...
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