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SQL SERVER – FIX – Error 3201 – Cannot open backup device. Operating system error 3

This blog is in continuing to use the default values. Earlier this week I wrote a blog which talked about the failure of Create Database Command. Let see in this blog post how we can solve the error 3201.

While working on the reproduction of the issue, I changed the parameters and later realized that the backup database command was also failing. If you rely on the default values for folders that don’t exist, this will raise an error message as shown below.

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SQL SERVER – The Basics of the SSIS Script Task – Notes from the Field #065

[Note from Pinal]: This is a new episode of Notes from the Field series. SQL Server Integration Service (SSIS) is one of the most key essential part of the entire Business Intelligence (BI) story. It is a platform for data integration and workflow applications. In this episode of the Notes from the…
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SQL SERVER – Error: Fix: Msg 5133, Level 16, State 1, Line 2 Directory lookup for the file failed with the operating system error 2(The system cannot find the file specified.) – Part 2

Errors are a great starting point for learning. Especially, my inbox is always flooded with atleast 2-3 error messages almost every other day. People keep asking me how to solve them, what to do when we encounter an error and so on. Long time back I wrote a simple blog…
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SQL SERVER – Error: Msg 701, Level 17, State 103. There is insufficient system memory in resource

Talking and exploring In-Memory topics in SQL Server 2014 has been interesting to me. When I wrote the blog around table variable not being just an In-Memory structure, one of my course listener (SQL Server 2014 Administration New Features) pinged me on twitter to ask, if In-Memory OLTP was really In-Memory? Wouldn’t SQL Server like to swap the data or memory data to pagination file when there is memory pressure? I told them the concept of In-Memory is that data always resides in memory and the reason for a feature name “In-Memory OLTP”. Let us see how we can fix errors related to insufficient system memory.

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