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Nov15

Recently, one of my clients contacted me to understand why they are seeing such messages in their application event log. Where it says The Description for Event ID 18456 From Source MSSQLSERVER Cannot be Found.

Nov14

SQL SERVER – Error While Enabling Windows Feature: NetFx3, Error Code: 2146498298

Pinal Dave

SQL

SQL Error Messages, SQL Server, SQL Server Installation, Starting SQL, Windows

Due to development challenge people still use SQL 2012 in production. In one of the case a client told me that their application vendor has not approved SQL 2014 and above, so they were forced to install SQL 2012. There were getting below error while trying to install SQL Server 2012. Let us learn how to fix error while enabling windows feature.

Nov13

SQL SERVER – Assembly ‘ISSERVER’ Was Not Found in the SQL Catalog of Database ‘SSISDB’

Pinal Dave

SQL

SQL Error Messages, SQL Scripts, SQL Server, Starting SQL

Due to my connect with my many clients, learning never stops for me. Almost every day someone sends me email for quick 55 minute consultation. You can read more about it over here about how to fix error related to SQL Catalog.

Nov12

How to Validate Email Address in SQL Server? – Interview Question of the Week #147

Pinal Dave

SQL Interview Questions and Answers

SQL Function, SQL Scripts, SQL Server

How to Validate Email Address in SQL Server?

Nov11

Installation Error – Updating Permission Setting for File Failed

Pinal Dave

SQL

SQL Error Messages, SQL Server, SQL Server Installation

My client contacted me for a quick assistance in a setup trouble. Let us learn about how to fix Installation Error.

Nov10

SQL SERVER – Service Pack Failure: MissingRegistryKeyException

Pinal Dave

SQL

Registry, SQL Error Messages, SQL Server

To fix something, it should be broken first. I keep playing with my lab and eventually end up breaking stuff. This time, while patching my own lab environment with latest service pack, I ran into below error about MissingRegistryKeyException.

Nov9

SQL SERVER – Startup Error: 17190, Severity: 16 – Initializing the FallBack Certificate Failed with Error Code: 1, State: 20

Pinal Dave

SQL

SQL Error Messages, SQL Server, Starting SQL

I must confess that consulting has taught me much more than what I have learned in my regular job. Freelancing comes with advantages and disadvantages. For me, I am looking at advantages and I am happy with my decision. In this blog post we will learn about error related to FallBack Certificate.

SQL SERVER – Signal Wait Time Introduction with Simple Example – Wait Type – Day 2 of 28

SQL SERVER – DMV – sys.dm_os_wait_stats Explanation – Wait Type – Day 3 of 28

SQL SERVER – DMV – sys.dm_os_waiting_tasks and sys.dm_exec_requests – Wait Type – Day 4 of 28

SQL SERVER – Capturing Wait Types and Wait Stats Information at Interval – Wait Type – Day 5 of 28

SQL SERVER – CXPACKET – Parallelism – Usual Solution – Wait Type – Day 6 of 28

SQLAuthority News – Presenting at Virtual Tech Days TechEd Pre-Con – February 9, 2011

Pinal Dave is an SQL Server Performance Tuning Expert and independent consultant with over 22 years of hands-on experience. He holds a Masters of Science degree and numerous database certifications.

Pinal has authored 14 SQL Server database books and 104 Pluralsight courses. To freely share his knowledge and help others build their expertise, Pinal has also written more than 5,800 database tech articles on his blog at https://blog.sqlauthority.com.

Pinal is an experienced and dedicated professional with a deep commitment to flawless customer service. If you need help with any SQL Server Performance Tuning Issues, please feel free to reach out at pinal@sqlauthority.com.

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SQL SERVER – The Description for Event ID 18456 From Source MSSQLSERVER Cannot be Found

SQL SERVER – Error While Enabling Windows Feature: NetFx3, Error Code: 2146498298

SQL SERVER – Assembly ‘ISSERVER’ Was Not Found in the SQL Catalog of Database ‘SSISDB’

How to Validate Email Address in SQL Server? – Interview Question of the Week #147

Installation Error – Updating Permission Setting for File Failed

SQL SERVER – Service Pack Failure: MissingRegistryKeyException

SQL SERVER – Startup Error: 17190, Severity: 16 – Initializing the FallBack Certificate Failed with Error Code: 1, State: 20

SQL SERVER – Wait Stats – Wait Types – Wait Queues – Day 0 of 28

SQL SERVER – Signal Wait Time Introduction with Simple Example – Wait Type – Day 2 of 28

SQL SERVER – DMV – sys.dm_os_wait_stats Explanation – Wait Type – Day 3 of 28

SQL SERVER – DMV – sys.dm_os_waiting_tasks and sys.dm_exec_requests – Wait Type – Day 4 of 28

SQL SERVER – Capturing Wait Types and Wait Stats Information at Interval – Wait Type – Day 5 of 28

SQL SERVER – CXPACKET – Parallelism – Usual Solution – Wait Type – Day 6 of 28

SQLAuthority News – Presenting at Virtual Tech Days TechEd Pre-Con – February 9, 2011