After a cluster failover, SQL Server would not start on Node2 because upgrade step ‘upgrade_ucp_cmdw.sql’ failed. Here is what the ERRORLOG showed.
Listing Last Night’s Failed Agent Jobs With One msdb Query
List failed Agent jobs and steps from msdb history, include retries and cancellations, and account for local times and trimmed records.
Physical and Virtual Memory Explained for SQL Server DBAs
Physical and virtual memory are two different things, and SQL Server reports on both. This post explains RAM, address space, the page file and paging in plain words. It then reads each number with three read-only queries and ends with settings worth checking.
Does Dropping Primary Key Drop Non-Clustered Index on the Column? – Interview Question of the Week #085
Does dropping a primary key also drop the Non-Clustered Index on that column? An interview question with a small repro script to see the answer.
SQL SERVER – SSMS Error During Restore: No Backupset Selected to be Restored
Restoring a SQL Server 2008 backup in SSMS 2012 gave ‘No backupset selected to be restored’. A reader’s question and what causes this restore error.
SQL SERVER – Backup to URL Fails in Azure Resource Manager (ARM) Deployment Model with Error – (400) Bad Request
Backup to URL failed with (400) Bad Request on storage created in the Azure Resource Manager model. Here is why and how my client got it working.
SQL SERVER – False Error – Cannot bulk load because the file could not be opened. Operating system error code 5 (Access is denied.)
BULK INSERT said ‘Operating system error code 5 (Access is denied.)’ but that was not the real problem. A repro of this misleading error and the real cause.