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Agent Service Missing in Configuration Manager: The Fix

January 18, 2020
Pinal Dave
SQL Tips and Tricks
Registry, SQL Error Messages, SQL Server Agent, SQL Server Services

An Agent service missing in Configuration Manager can come from a wrong program path. This post compares the service lists, reads the Agent path with T-SQL, checks that the file exists, and explains how to repair the path.

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SQL SERVER – Temp Table vs Table Variable – Cardinality Estimation

January 17, 2020
Pinal Dave
SQL Performance
Execution Plan, SQL Scripts, SQL Server, SQL TempDB, Temp Table

I had a very interesting conversation with one of my clients about Cardinality Estimation for Temp Table vs Table Variable. Let us discuss it today.

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SQL SERVER – Event ID 7000 – The System Cannot Find the File Specified

January 16, 2020
Pinal Dave
SQL Tips and Tricks
Computer Network, Registry, SQL Error Messages, SQL Scripts, SQL Server, SQL Server Agent

This blog is from one that came from a DBA from one of my consulting engagements. Let us learn how to fix event id 7000 error.

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Why a Filtered Index Is Ignored by Parameterized Queries

January 15, 2020
Pinal Dave
SQL Performance
Execution Plan, Parameter Sniffing, SQL Index, SQL Performance

Explain why a filtered index is ignored with parameters, inspect plan warnings, and compare literal filters, RECOMPILE, and coverage fixes.

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SQL SERVER – Script Level Upgrade for Database ‘master’ Failed – The Server Principal Owns One or More Availability Group(s) and Cannot be Dropped

January 14, 2020
Pinal Dave
SQL Tips and Tricks
SQL Error Messages, SQL Scripts, SQL Server, System Database

In this blog we would learn about fixing error Script level upgrade for database ‘master’ failed because of upgrade step ‘’msdb110_upgrade.sql’

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SQL SERVER 2019 – Still Getting String or Binary Data Would be Truncated

January 13, 2020
Pinal Dave
SQL Tips and Tricks
SQL Error Messages, SQL Scripts, SQL Server, SQL String

If you have read release notes of SQL Server 2019, Microsoft has finally made an enhancement to error 8152 – String or binary data would be truncated.

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What is TempDB Spill in SQL Server? – Interview Question of the Week #259

January 12, 2020
Pinal Dave
SQL Interview Questions and Answers
Execution Plan, SQL Memory, SQL Scripts, SQL Server, SQL TempDB

When SQL Server uses TempDB when any query does not have enough memory to do its operation, it is called TempDB Spill. Let’s learn today.

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