Yesterday I shared a blog post where I discussed how to list all the users with the System Admin (sysadmin) rights. I have received a quite a few emails and comments on this subject. The comment which got the most attention is from SQL Expert Chris Mangrum. He has shared a very interesting script with modification from the original script where he has also included additional permission of Control Server.
SQL SERVER – Too many dumps generated. CPerIndexMetaQS::ErrorAbort – Index Corruption
I always try to share my knowledge and learning from a client engagement. This helps me in remembering the steps I took to reach to the solution. It also helps my blog readers to follow the same steps and fix their problem rather than waiting for some expert to fix it. So you see, this is a WIN-WIN situation for both of us. Let us learn in this blog post how to fix index corruption.
SQL SERVER – List Users with System Admin (sysadmin) Rights
One of the pre-requesting of Comprehensive Database Performance Health Check is to check if user has necessary system admin rights or not. It is almost impossible to help customer with SQL Server Performance if they do have a DBA who has access to system admin rights.
How to Kill Processes Idle for X Hours? – Interview Question of the Week #152
Question: How to Kill Processes Idle for X Hours?
SQL SERVER – Fix Error – Restore Operation Failed for Database Due to Insufficient Memory in the Resource Pool ‘Default’
SQL SERVER – Fix Error – Restore Operation Failed for Database Due to Insufficient Memory in the Resource Pool ‘Default’
SQL SERVER – Login Failed. The Login is From an Untrusted Domain and Cannot be Used with Windows Authentication
Many people ask me how is the life as a freelancer, as a consultant? My answer is “life is good, but to get the complete picture, you have to experience it”. There are enough challenges which are thrown at a consultant everyday and resolving them at a rapid pace is the key. Every day is like a closed door where I can’t see what’s going to happen. But trust me… it’s FUN! This blog is an outcome of such “challenge” which was thrown while performing final checks after deployment for a client. We ran into an issue where the SQL cluster was not able to failover to another node. Let us learn about how to fix the error login failed.
SQL SERVER – Always On Availability Group Failover Generating Dump. Error: 17066: SQL Server Assertion: HadrFstrVnnUtils.cpp:479
One of my clients was using Always On availability group. They were having 3 nodes Always On AG setup. For simplicity, let’s call them Node1, Node2 and Node3. The first two nodes were in one subnet and node3 was in separate subnet. Let us learn about availability group failover.
SQL SERVER – FIX: SQL Service Does Not Start After Promoting the Machine as Domain Controller
One of my blog reader contacted me to check if I can help him via phone to fix a show-stopper issue with SQL Server. I offered him On Demand (55 minutes) and he readily accepted it. Let us learn in this blog post how to fix an error related to domain controller.
SQL SERVER – FIX: Msg 15150 – Cannot Alter The User ‘dbo’.
One of my clients was deploying SharePoint and they were following some documents to make sure it is as per their standard deployment. They were seeing below error while updating the login from dbo to some other login from user mapping window (for login properties window). Let us learn how to fix error 15150 about cannot alter the user.
SQL SERVER – Msg 3225: Use of WITH CREDENTIAL Syntax is Not Valid for Credentials Containing a Shared Access Signature
One of my blog readers was having trouble with backup to URL using SAS token. He followed my below blog to fix his issue. SQL SERVER – Backup to URL error: Operating system error 50(The request is not supported.) Now let us look in this blog post how we can fix errors related to credentials.