[Note from Pinal]: In this episode of the Notes from the Field series database expert Mike Lawell explains about Live Query Statistics in SQL Server 2016. Statistics are heart of SQL Server. They play a very powerful role when SQL Server Engine needs help to build a new execution plan for a query. In earlier version of SQL Server we had the only privilege to see statistics after the query is executed. However, with the advancement of SQL Server 2016, the scenario has been changed. Here is a very interesting new feature of SQL Server 2016 which can help every performance tuning expert. Read the experience of Mike in his own words.
While playing with linked server from SQL Server to SQL Server, I faced few errors and fixed them as well. It has become a custom to get errors working with Linked Servers almost every time. I personally thought it is worth blogging because I didn’t find any single blog having the cause and solution explained in detail. Let us learn about the OLE DB provider error.
At this rate, I think I am going to exhaust the whole error set available in SQL Server. I am glad that I am able to get into unique situations and then resolve them too. And this is more of a diary of the error messages I am getting into. I was playing with my Demo database on SQL Server 2016. Once done, I started restoring from the previous copy. But is failing with below error 3169:
I said I have no clue as to why this is happening and I asked if it was in any way related to SQL Server? Let us fix SSMA Error.