In the recent few days, I have found many clients having various script upgrade failures while applying service packs or cumulative updates. Here are few of them. Let us learn about Script Upgrade Failure.
How to Change Owner of Database in SQL SERVER? – Interview Question of the Week #117
Question: How to Change Owner of Database in SQL SERVER?
SQL SERVER – Unable to Install Service Pack in Cluster – There was an Error to Lookup Cluster Resource Types
Learning never stops for me with SQL Server. Even though I have written articles to solve many issues, I still get pinged from various clients and I find one new thing every day. In this blog post we will learn how to fix the error related to installing the service pack in the cluster.
SQL SERVER – Script to Audit Login and Role Member Change
Once there was a security breach on my client machine and they wanted to know who made changes to the SysAdmin role. They contacted me and my first question was that, are you are auditing such changes and as expected answer was No. I gave them answer that nothing can be done as a consultant. They still wanted my suggestion to prevent this in future. So, they want to track if someone does such things in future. Let us see a script to audit login and role member change.
SQL SERVER – Msg 3101, Level 16 – Exclusive Access Could not be Obtained Because the Database is in Use
This error might have seen by DBAs and they know how to fix it. This blog goes in little details about what are the various options available. Here is the simple reproduction of the error message related to exclusive access.
SQL SERVER – Management Studio Missing – SSMS 2014 not Installed with SQL Server 2014
Recently I got a message on Skype about SSMS.
Hi Pinal, Need quick suggestion. I am unable to find ssms.exe after installation of SQL Server. Do you know how I can install it?
Initially I thought that since SQL Server 2016 doesn’t come with SQL Server Management Studio, this would be an expected behavior. So, I shared my blog to him.









