Here is a recent email which I received from Madhu. He is a beginner in the SQL Server and when he tried to take a backup from SSMS (SQL Server Management Studio), he got error related to backup file. As soon as he sent me an email I knew what was the exact problem, he was facing and I was able to help him quickly. Let us first recreate the same error and later on see how to fix the same.
SQL SERVER – Script level upgrade for database ‘master’ failed because upgrade step ‘upgrade_ucp_cmdw.sql’
Recently once by my client contacted via Skype to know my thoughts about a cluster failover failure issue. They were having two nodes SQL Clustered instance and it was running fine of Node1. As soon as they failover to Node2, it was not able to start and was failing with upgrade script. Let us learn about the script level upgrade for database ‘master’ failed because upgrade step ‘upgrade_ucp_cmdw.sql’.
SQL SERVER – Summer Sale and Monowheel Raffle
My good old friends from Devart keep exciting me with great news. As it became a tradition, the company treats its customers with “tasty” discounts on all its product range. But there’s more – each customer gets a chance to win a monowheel in the end of the summer sale. See details below.
SQL SERVER – Understanding Basic Memory Terms of Physical Memory and Virtual Memory
Recently I had been to an institute to talk about some database concepts to computer science students. Most of these academic engagements get me closer to young minds and this is an awesome way for me to bring some of the industry concepts in a digestible simple format. Trust me, this takes double the preparation I normally do for professional sessions because now I need to make the concepts so simple that even kids of any age and with no knowledge can still get the concepts being explained. A lot of times this is an exercise for me to show how self-learning can be much more rewarding and unique when compared to what text book teaching would look like. In this blog, let me take up the concept around Physical and Virtual memory which took some considerable time for me using a whiteboard. I am sure, you would have also learnt these concepts a while back, but this is a refresher in my opinion for all.
Does Dropping Primary Key Drop Non-Clustered Index on the Column? – Interview Question of the Week #085
Question: When we drop primary key on the column, does it automatically drop a non-clustered index on the same column (if created)?
Before we see answer of this question, I suggest you read following three blog posts, they discuss various similar aspects related to the primary key and clustered index.
SQL SERVER – SSMS Error During Restore: No Backupset Selected to be Restored
There are various ways of learning in my current role. Along with client engagements, reading others blog, I also learn from comment/interaction of my own blog. One of my blog readers sent below email about Backupset.
SQL SERVER – Backup to URL Fails in Azure Resource Manager (ARM) Deployment Model with Error – (400) Bad Request
During my previous consulting engagement, I learned something new with SQL Server feature called back up to the URL. Since it was not so clearly documented, I am sharing this with you. In this blog post, let us learn about Azure Resource Manager. If you have not heard about this feature, you can think of it as variation of the SQL backup feature. In this type of backup, the destination would be an Azure storage rather than disk or tape. You can read more about this feature on my previous blog SQL SERVER – Backup to Azure Blob using SQL Server 2014 Management Studio.