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View ArticleTips and Tricks: Useful Parameters of Get-ClusterLog
Working with Root Cause Analysis (RCA) is also part of my work at Microsoft. In case of cluster failover RCA, it is very important to get cluster log. Sometimes there are situation where we want to...
View ArticleSQL SERVER – SSMS Database Expand Hang – High waits on...
Recently I have had a friend who reported below issues. When I expand database, it takes a lot of time. When I expand Jobs under SQL Server Agent node in SQL Server Management Studio, it freezes and...
View ArticleSQL SERVER – SSMS Database Expand Hang – High waits on...
Recently I have had a friend who reported below issues. When I expand database, it takes a lot of time. When I expand Jobs under SQL Server Agent node in SQL Server Management Studio, it freezes and...
View ArticleSolution : Cannot add new node – Rule "SQL Server Database Services feature...
While deploying SQL Server 2014 cluster in my lab I ran into this problem when I was trying to add second node (Node 2) to SQL cluster. ————————— Rule Check Result ————————— Rule "SQL Server Database...
View ArticleSolution: Unable to launch SQL Server Configuration Manager – Invalid class...
While launching SQL Server Configuration Manager on one of my machine, I got below error Here is the text of the error message: ————————— SQL Server Configuration Manager ————————— Cannot connect to...
View ArticleTroubleshooting : Error – Incorrect syntax near ‘GO’
Sometimes we are very comfortable and used to with certain things that if they change, we become nervous and uneasy. I have a lovely daughter and she always greets me when I come back home from office....
View ArticleHelp : Getting error – Cannot resolve the collation conflict
Recently someone posted on MSDN forum about collation related error which I have seen multiple times. Today I am taking time to write notes about that. Here is the famous collation conflict error which...
View ArticleTroubleshooting : %1 is not a valid win32 application
As part of my job, a significant part of my working hours are all about troubleshooting SQL related issues. They could range from SQL installation, performance, high availability, T-SQL query and...
View ArticleTips and Tricks : Error: 5171 – tempdb.mdf is not a primary database file
If you are getting same error for database other than tempdb then there is a serious issue with the file. Primary file is a database file which contains information about database itself like location,...
View ArticleTips and Tricks : OS error: 32(The process cannot access the file because it...
While playing with tempDB database on my machine, I have made some mistake and then was not able to start one SQL Instance. As usual, started troubleshooting and used sysinternals tool to find the...
View ArticleTroubleshooting : Slow Delete Database from Management Studio
Not very long ago, I had a database on my SQL 2012 Instance which was getting log shipped happily at frequency of 1 minute. Long long ago I have done such configuration for a demo purpose and forgot....
View ArticleHelp : How to find cause of “Login failed for user” error
“Login failed for user” is one of the most common error which everyone might have seen at least once. In this blog, I am going to share few possible causes of the error and their solution. First, we...
View ArticleSolution : The connection to the primary replica is not active. The command...
It has been close to a year since I published my first book (SQL Server 2012 AlwaysOn – Paperback, Kindle) and since then I have been contacted by many DBA to troubleshoot various issue related to...
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