One of my blog readers contacted me and informed that he is getting the same error as mentioned in below blog SQL SERVER – Service Pack Failure: MissingRegistryKeyException. Note that it had the same error message, but that did not help him here. In this blog, we would learn how to fix MissingRegistryKeyException while installing SQL Server service pack. Let us fix the error registry key is missing.
SQL Server Performance Tuning – Upcoming Public Training
I frequently do various online and offline public training. Once the training gets over, I get a flurry of emails from various individuals that they have missed the last training and would like to sign up for the next training. Here is the list of my upcoming public training. You may sign up anyone you like or all of them!
PowerShell – Get Maximum Memory of Server with dbatools
Yesterday I blogged about the very famous Powershell free community tool dbatools. After writing this blog post, I received some interesting emails. I think lots of people confused this with native PowerShell. Well, actually dbatools is build using PowerShell scripts and runs under the hood script of PowerShell. The biggest advantage of the PowerShell is that it helps us to do multiple operations like finding the maximum memory of the server.
PowerShell – How to Install dbatools?
One of the most popular questions any PowerShell expert would receive is how to install the most popular dbatools based on Powershell scripts?
SQL SERVER – Script – Transaction Log Backups Based on Growth / Size
While doing a comprehensive health check of the SQL Server, one of the things I check is the backup plan for the production databases. Many times, I have run into a situation where a customer says ” Transaction log file of the database has grown more than expected. I want to know the reason why and how to reclaim space and how to avoid such situations”. Let’s break it down into two parts and then
SQL SERVER – SharePoint not Working After Failover to Another Node
Anything that can go wrong will go wrong while Murphy is out of town. While I was onsite to help a client, one such issue had cropped up in their SharePoint environment where SQL Server was used as backend and was a part of Windows failover cluster. When SQL Server was failed over from Active to the Passive node, users were not able to connect to SharePoint site and they were not able to open any SharePoint page. Since it was critical for their business, I got engaged to provide suggestions.
How to Force a Parallel Execution Plan for a Query? – Interview Question of the Week #170
Question: How to Force a Parallel Execution Plan for a Query?
SQL SERVER – FIX – Error 1402 – Could not Open Key: UNKNOWN\Components – System Error 5 (Another Solution)
I encountered this error while installing KB3045311. In fact, you might get such errors when installing any patch for one of my customers. The error was the very popular system error 5.
SQL SERVER – FIX: Unable to Create Distribution Database on a UNC Share – Configure Distribution
Whenever we try to use Configure Distribution option in SSMS in a SQL Server instance which is configured on a UNC Path, the wizard will not allow us to configure the Distribution database and we will get the below error:
SQL SERVER – Unable to Start SQL After Patching – Database SSISDB is Enabled for Database Mirroring
I do apply patches to my SQL instances as and when they are released by Microsoft. This is important because I always feel keeping the bits up-to-date is essential because I don’t want to get infected as I travel quite a bit. Since I play a lot with my SQL Server, there are more chances that things are going to break sooner than your production server. Here is one such incident. Let us learn about how to fix script level upgrade. Let us learn how to fix the error related to SSISDB.