Questions: What does BACKUP WITH NAME Command do?
SQL SERVER – An Error Occurred While Obtaining the Dedicated Administrator Connection (DAC) Port
Microsoft SQL Server has given an option to connect to SQL Server when normal connections can’t be made because of any reasons. This feature is called as Dedicate Administrator Connection (DAC). You can read more about DAC over here. Diagnostic Connection for Database Administrators
SQL SERVER – The Patch Installer has Failed to Update the Shared Features
Applying a patch in SQL Server is a planned process which is followed across various companies. Most of the companies take time to apply the patch to make sure the stability of the patch can be validated. Let us see an error related to patch installer.
Get Column Names From a Specific Table – SQL in Sixty Seconds #083
One of the most popular question I receive is usually about How to get column names from a specific table in SQL Server?
SQL SERVER – FIX: Rule “Reporting Services Catalog Database File Existence” Failed
Disasters are always bad. Recovering from disaster is a skill and needs a lot of planning and practice. One of my clients had a disaster and built a new machine to restore the backups. They tried a few attempts to install SQL Server but were having issues. Finally, they contacted me for consultation to fix rule reporting services catalog database file existence.
SQL SERVER – ALTER Column from INT to BIGINT – Error and Solutions
Sometime ago I wrote a blog on identity column value jump issue, you can read it from here SQL SERVER – Jump in Identity column after restart! In this blog post we will learn how to resolve the error when we alter column from int to bigint.
SQL SERVER – Could Not Load File or Assembly ‘SqlManagerUi, Version=14.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=89845dcd8080cc91’ or One of its Dependencies
Recently, one of my clients reported a weird issue to me. They explained that when they right click on the database, and try to read its properties they were getting the following error message. Let us learn about error related to could not load file or assembly.
How Default Value and Nullable Column Works? – Interview Question of the Week #129
Question: How Default Value and Nullable Column works together for a single table?
SQL SERVER – MSDB Database Uncontrolled Growth Due to Queue_messages. How to Clear All Messages From a Queue?
Received an email “Need your urgent help On Demand, our MSDB Database has grown too big and we need help to check our MSDB.” I have been an independent consultant for a while and one of the services I provide is “On Demand (50 minutes)” service. This service is very helpful for organizations who are in need immediate help with their performance tuning issue. Though, I have set working ours for my regular clients, every single day, I keep two hours available for this particular offering. This way, I can make sure that anyone who urgently needs my help, can avail the same. Click here to read more about it.
SQL SERVER – Alternative of Log Shipping in Simple Recovery Model
The blog topic might seem controversial and doesn’t go well with definition of log shipping features. Read it again. The blog has an alternative way to set up something “similar” to log-shipping. If the database is in simple recovery model, then we can’t take transaction log backups and hence no log shipping possible.