From past few months, I am seeing a few of my client moving their development workload to Cloud. When I asked the reason, it was mostly cost reduction in terms of hardware lifetime, licensing and connectivity advantage and their developer can work from anywhere. In this blog post, we will learn about how to fix error related to Azure Virtual Machine.
SQL SERVER – Script Level Upgrade for Database ‘master’ Failed Because Upgrade Step ‘sqlagent100_msdb_upgrade.sql’ – Error: 5041: MODIFY FILE Failed
I have helped many clients in upgrade failures via my On-Demand consulting and I am amazed to see various ways which can break SQL Server upgrade. In this blog we would learn about fixing error Script level upgrade for database ‘master’ failed because upgrade step ‘sqlagent100_msdb_upgrade.sql’
SQL SERVER – Full-Text Search Not Working For PDF Documents
Full-Text is a feature of SQL Server which allows linguistic search in various languages. In general, we use LIKE operator to search inside the column data, but it is not very efficient. There are multiple advantages of full-text search. You can read more about this on my blog Creating Full-Text Catalog and Full-Text Search
How to Schedule a Job in SQL Server? – Interview Question of the Week #160
Question: How to Schedule a Job on SQL Server?
Answer: A very old and widespread question, keep on coming back to in interviews. Let us see how to schedule a job on SQL Server.
SQL SERVER – Installation Error: The Cluster Resource is Not Available. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x8007138E)
Sometimes DBAs get into a situation where they don’t know what the next steps is to fix the issue. Here is one of the situation where DBA contacted me with below error in installing a patch for SQL Server in clustered environment. If you don’t know then I can tell you that I do provide quick consultancy. You can read more here On Demand (55 minutes). In this blog post we will learn about how to fix an installation error.
SQL SERVER – What is Change Pending State of in SQL Server Configuration Manager?
Recently, one of my clients contacted me for an issue about Change Pending State where they were having issues where SQL Server. As soon as I joined the call with them, they showed me below.
SQL SERVER – Fix – Error – Property MemoryAllocatedToMemory OptimizedObjectsInKB is not available for Database. This property may not exist for this object, or may not be retrievable due to insufficient access rights.
The other day when I was presenting my popular training SQL Server Performance Tuning Practical Workshop, during the demonstrations, I received following error. It was bit embarrassing for me as I was presenting in front of over 25 extremely smart DBAs and the error MemoryAllocatedToMemoryOptimizedObjectsInKB showed up on the screen.
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