A Cluster Network Name would not come online and showed NETBIOS status ‘The system cannot find the file specified’. Which log to check and how we fixed it.
SQL SERVER – Fix Connection Error – [Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver][DBNETLIB][ConnectionOpen(Connect())
A connection error on a named instance that works by port but not by name. What SQL Browser answers on UDP 1434, and why local tests prove nothing.
SQL SERVER – Log Shipping Copy Job Failure – The Password for This Account Has Expired
A reader’s log shipping copy job was failing with ‘The password for this account has expired’. Here is how we found the cause and fixed it.
SQL SERVER – How to Find the In-Memory OLTP Tables Memory Usage on the Server
At SQLPASS a DBA asked how to see the memory used by each In-Memory OLTP table. The DMV sys.dm_db_xtp_table_memory_stats answers it. Here is the script.
SQL SERVER – Error – Disallowing page allocations for database ‘DB’ due to insufficient memory in the resource pool
My SQL Server 2016 error log kept saying ‘Disallowing page allocations for database due to insufficient memory in the resource pool’. What it means and the fix.
SQL Server Backup Compression: How Much Space It Saves
Backup compression needs only the COMPRESSION option in the BACKUP statement. This post backs up a demo database twice and compares the sizes and times. It also checks the restore, explains the error that mixing compressed and plain backups raises, and covers the costs.
How to Downgrade Database from SQL Server 2014 to SQL Server 2012 – Interview Question of the Week #099
Can you downgrade a database from SQL Server 2014 to SQL Server 2012? Not directly, but there is one workaround: script the database with data and run it.