It’s always fun to fix something when there is no meaningful error message. As you can see in the blog title, message id = 0 and it doesn’t tell me how to fix the issue. Here is my checklist whenever someone reports below severe error:
SQL Authority News – 11 Years of Daily Blogging – 4200+ Blog Posts
Today, I complete 11 years of daily blogging on SQL Authority. I have so far blogged 4200 blog posts on this blog. 11 years have about 4015 days and it seems that I have written over 1 blog posts every single day.
SQL SERVER – SQL Express Installation Error – Wait on the Database Engine Recovery Handle Failed
Sometimes I get emails from software vendors who use SQL Server as a part of their product. One of such vendor contacted me for an issue where their software install was failing because SQL Express was not getting installed. It was failing with an error. The error message which they shared was “Wait on the Database Engine recovery handle failed”.
SQL SERVER – Adding New Database to AlwaysOn Replica is Slow
First, let me clarify, the words in the subject of this blog are the exact words used by my client and whatever you do and say but “customer is always right!”. Here is the complete story where we faced issue related to AlwaysOn Replica.
SQL SERVER – How to Auto Start SQL Followed by a Crash?
Sometimes I do get some quick questions from my existing clients. I try to help them as much as possible. Most of the time, I provide them link to my blog or someone else’s blog. If there is no relevant information based on my search, then I provide them relevant information and write a blog for future reference. This blog is an outcome of one such email communication. Here is the short question about auto start SQL.
SQL SERVER – How to Remove TempDB File?
In the last 11 years of blogging, I have never received a question which I have received yesterday. The question which I often receive is about how to add TempDB files in SQL Server but I have never received a question about how to remove a TempDB file.
SQL SERVER – Move Database Files for a Mirrored Database Without Breaking Mirroring
Database mirroring is a very popular solution for high availability. Later on I am finding quite a many people DBAs opting for mirrored databases.