This blog is a response to a comment on our blog. Have you ever encountered below error related to media set?
Msg 3132, Level 16, State 1, Line 15
The media set has 2 media families but only 1 are provided. All members must be provided.
Msg 3013, Level 16, State 1, Line 15
RESTORE DATABASE is terminating abnormally.
Recently I came across an issue where I was not able to fix directly. My client reported below error in Skype, which is related to a service pack.
My every interaction with client teaches me something new. Recently someone contacted me through email and informed that they have issues with SQL Server Startup. When we checked ERRORLOG, we found below messages at the end of the ERRORLOG where Via Support library was mentioned.
If we look at the error in the subject line, it is very clear that a full backup is needed so that the differential backup chain can be initiated. If this happens to a newly created database, then it makes sense and there is no need for me to write a blog. There was an interesting finding about the cause of this error, other than obvious one, so sharing it. Let us see another error related to differential backup.
In SQL Server, there are error few messages which can be caused due to multiple reasons. One of the famous example is “Login Failed for User” error message. If you have seen this earlier, you would know that this message can come due to incorrect user name, incorrect password, incorrect database and many more other reasons. Whenever I see login failed, I look at SQL Server ERRORLOG to see the exact cause.
I offered them quick 15-minute time to see what the errors are and whether I have some techniques to recover the data for invalid OS error 87.
Question: What is the Difference between TRUNCATE and DELETE in SQL Server?
During one of my consulting engagement about Always On availability group configuration, I found that listener network name was not coming online. As a rule of thumb, I always generate cluster log for any error related to cluster. SQL SERVER – Steps to Generate Windows Cluster Log?
Sometimes DBA do something which they are not aware of and end up in looking at the logs to see what went wrong. Here is one of the articles I wrote about the changing service account from configuration manager. Why to Use SQL Server Configuration Manager Over Services applet (services.msc)? – Interview Question of the Week #112. In this blog post, let us learn how to fix logon failure error.
Have you come across a situation where setup is taking many hours while navigating from one screen to another in clustered environment? Have you ever waited for many hours watching following message related to slow installation wizard on cluster?