Question: Which is Better for Performance – SELECT or SET?
QL SERVER – Unable to Create Listener: Msg 41009 – The Windows Server Failover Clustering (WSFC) Resource Control API Returned Error Code 5057
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 explained that they were having trouble creating a listener for their two nodes AlwaysOn Availability Group. The error message which they received from T-SQL is below. Let us learn how we can fix error related to Windows Server Failover Clustering.
SQL SERVER – How to Fix High CPU Consumption on SQL Server 2017 and 2016
In this blog post, we are going to discuss how to fix high CPU Consumption on SQL Server 2016 and SQL Server 2017. One of the large multinational corporations recently hired me for Comprehensive Database Performance Health Check. Usually, customer hires me once and we are able to fix all of their problems in very little time. However, this customer had a very unique scenario and I had to engage twice to help them out.
SQL SERVER – The Report Server Cannot Open a Connection to the Report Server Database. (rsReportServerDatabaseLogonFailed)
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 Services. As usual, I didn’t give up, but I investigated error message and applied a logical approach to fixing it. Let us see how to fix the error related to report server database.
SQL SERVER – FIX: Error 14001: The Application Has Failed to Start Because its Side-by-side Configuration is Not Correct
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 correct”.
SQL SERVER – FIX: Msg 3231 – The Media Loaded on “Backup” is Formatted to Support 1 Media Families, but 2 Media Families are Expected According to the Backup Device Specification
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 looks very similar. Here is my earlier blog for error 3132. SQL SERVER – FIX: Msg 3132, Level 16 – The Media Set has 2 Media Families but Only 1 is Provided. All Members Must be Provided. In this blog post, we will learn how to fix the error The Media Loaded on “Backup” is Formatted to Support 1 Media Families, but 2 Media Families are Expected According to the Backup Device Specification.
SQL SERVER – How to Download SQL Server Native Client?
Many times, there are some strange requests which I heard from my clients. I try to help my client with the answers and write a blog so that others can find the answers easily. Let us learn about SQL Server Native Client today.
How to Find SQL Server Deprecated Features Used by the Application? – Interview Question of the Week #165
There are many applications which are developed using an older version of SQL Server. As there are new releases happening, there are features, command, and syntax which are marked as deprecated features and might get removed in future version of SQL Server. It is always challenging for the developer to remember what is changed in the new release of SQL Server and what changes they needed to make sure that their application works with the latest version of SQL Server.
SQL SERVER – Identify Version of SQL Server from Backup File
One question I always ask all of my customers before I start Comprehensive Database Performance Health Check is that if they have taken backup of their server. The answer to this question honestly does not matter to me during consultancy I never change anything which brings to the situation where they need to restore the database. However, when I asked this question to my client, they said they have an issue to identify a version of SQL Server from the backup file.
SQL SERVER – Creating Temporary and Global Temporary Stored Procedures
During recent Comprehensive Database Performance Health Check, I had a very interesting situation I encountered where we found a stored procedure which was a root cause of the slowness. What we needed to do is to change the code and test if our new stored procedure is better than previous stored procedure or not. One of the options was to create a new stored procedure by renaming the older stored procedure and keep on testing. However, there was a small risk if we forget to drop the newly created stored procedure there will be junk created in the database. Let us see how we can avoid this situation by creating temporary or global Temporary stored procedures.