I had SSMS 17.1 installed on the machine and it was working fine. I don’t remember what I installed, but I started facing an SSMS error.
SQL SERVER – Msg 3743: The Database is Enabled for Database Mirroring. Database Mirroring Must be Removed Before you Drop the Database
One of my clients contacted me for quick assistance. They had database mirroring configured for a database. Due to some unknown issue their database mirroring went for a toss. Their end goal was to drop the database so that they can configure database mirroring again. They already had a backup of the database already taken before the issue. Â So far things were looking simple and all they wanted was to drop the database.Â
SQL in the City Streamed – Virtual Event on December 13 2017
Just like everyone, I love free quality education. However, the biggest challenge we see in the technology world is that even though we have free education available, after a while the relevance of the education is limited. Technology field is continuously changing and we all need to keep ourselves updated with the technology. In this blog post we will talk about SQL in the City Streamed, Virtual Event held on December 13 2017.
When to Use IDENT_CURRENT? – Interview Question of the Week #150
Question: When to Use IDENT_CURRENT and SCOPE_IDENTITY()?
SQL SERVER – Backup to URL error: Operating system error 50(The request is not supported.)
It’s always a good idea to be up-to-the-speed with the current market trend. As a part of my consulting I have been getting calls from clients having issues with Azure. So, I started learning Azure as well. Let us learn about how to fix the URL error.Â
SQL SERVER – Execution Failed. See the Maintenance Plan and SQL Server Agent Job History Logs for Details
While doing my consulting, I created a maintenance plan for my client to take full and log backups on a regular basis. The client was a little impatient, and he wanted to test everything before I get off the call. So, they tried to execute the maintenance plan which I created. It failed like below
SQL SERVER – AlwaysOn Availability Groups: Script to Sync Logins Between Replicas?
One of my blog readers was referring below blog SQL SERVER – Create Login with SID – Way to Synchronize Logins on Secondary Server. Let us learn in this blog post about the script to sync logins between replicas.Â
SQL SERVER – RDP Error to Azure Virtual Machines – The remote computer that you are trying to connect to requires Network Level Authentication (NLA)
I have some Azure Virtual machines which have AlwaysOn deployed for my quick testing purposes. Most of the time I keep them turned off by whenever there is a demo, I turn them on. In this blog post we will learn about RDP Error and how to fix it.Â
SQL SERVER – Msg 1105 – Could Not Allocate Space for Object Name in Database ‘DB’ Because the ‘PRIMARY’ Filegroup is Full
This is one of the famous error which has been reported many times by many clients. Here is the exact error which you might see. One of my clients complained that our database was unable to grow despite available space on the disk. Here is the error which they shared. Let us learn about error related to allocate space.Â
SQL SERVER – AlwaysOn Availability Group Backup fn_hadr_backup_is_preferred_replica Not Working Correctly
One of my clients has configured AlwaysOn availability group and wanted to automate backup to secondary replica. They debugged and found that the function sys.fn_hadr_backup_is_preferred_replica returns 0 no matter what the backup preference is set to. Since function was returning zero, the maintenance plan was ignoring the server to take backup.