It is always fun to work with “Backup to URL” feature of SQL Server. The error messages which are raised are from Azure storage side and an SQLDBA won’t be able to understand the meaning. While I was working with my VM to learn something about Backup to URL feature, I realized that my backups were failing. In this blog, let us learn how to fix the back to URL error: Operating system error 50(The request is not supported.). Here are the exact messages which I was getting in ERRORLOG.
SQL SERVER – Simple Method to Generate Fixed Digit OTP Code Using Random Function
One of my blog readers sent me the following mail after reading my earlier blog posts about Random Function and OTP Code. Before you read the email, you can read those blog posts here, here, and here.
Practical Real World Performance Tuning – Games , Interaction and Feedback
If you are following this blog, you would be familiar with my online class Practical Real World Performance Tuning with Brent Ozar. The course was initially planned to offer for only 3 different times this year. However, due to a popularity of the course, we had offered this course so far 5 times. The course is very unique and there is nothing out there which is comparable to this course. Let me just highlight a few points which makes me proud every time I talk about this course. Let us discuss Practical Real World Performance Tuning – Games , Interaction and Feedback.
SQL SERVER – FIX: Error – The Job Failed. Unable to Determine If The Owner Domain\User of Job Job_Name Has Server Access
I keep on breaking my lab environment and have learned many things from it. Here is one of the recent errors which I fixed. In this blog, we would learn how to fix error “The job failed. Unable to determine if the owner
Which is Faster – INSERT INTO SELECT or SELECT INTO? – Interview Question of the Week #187
Question: Which is Faster – INSERT INTO SELECT or SELECT INTO?
SQL SERVER – Unable to Remove Replication Publication – Could not Delete the Subscription at Subscriber ‘SubServer’ in Database ‘SubDB’
While playing with my lab server having broken replication, I encountered an error message when I was trying to remove publication. In this blog, we would learn about how to fix error Could not delete the subscription at Subscriber ‘SubServer’ in database ‘SubDB’.
SQL SERVER – Useful Queries – Why Huge Transaction Log (LDF) File? Fix Low Disk Free Space on the Drive Used by LDF Files
During my Comprehensive Database Performance Health Check engagement with the client, one of the most common issue found was the huge size of the transaction log file. In this blog, we would learn about useful queries which I use to help my client in fixing Huge Transaction Log (LDF) File.
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