When you see something not behaving the way normal way, either it must be magic or in software terms it is an error or bug. This blog was inspired by someone who caught me unaware with this challenge that it took me by surprise. I didn’t know how to solve it and it took me close to 10 mins before realizing what was happening behind the scenes. Let us see the puzzle about Why does sp_spaceused Show No Values?
SQL SERVER – The header for file Path is not a valid database file header. The PageAudit property is incorrect
If you are coming to this page by searching, then I am sure that you are in big trouble. I have come across this error and my SQL Server was not getting started. When I looked into ERRORLOG, I found below errors about the PageAudit Property.
SQL SERVER – SQL Server: Getting OS information using DMV
I am used to exploring what is available in the technology of love – SQL Server. As I was exploring into one of the simplest set of DMVs which have been available for ages. There are several ways to get the OS information inside SQL Server. One of the ways is to use the DMV as shown below.
How to Enable Auto Update Statistics and Auto Create Statistics with T-SQL – Interview Question of the Week #108
Question: How to Enable Auto Update Statistics and Auto Create Statistics? Let us learn how we can fix that in today’s blog post.
SQL SERVER – Database Mirroring Connection Error 4 – An Error Occurred While Receiving Data: 10054
I was trying to set up database mirroring in my freshly created Azure Virtual Machines and encountered an error. The error was talking about connectivity problem, but it was something else. Let us learn about how to fix the database mirroring connection error 4.
SQL SERVER – Error: 566, Severity: 21 – An Error Occurred While Writing an Audit Trace. SQL Server is Shutting Down
Have you ever been in a situation where SQL Server shuts down by itself? It sounds strange but I met across a gentleman in flight who reported this issue to me. Since I was curious to know the cause, we exchanged our business cards. Once I came back home, I sent him an email asking more details about the SQL shutdown issue. Let us learn about how to fix error, An Error Occurred While Writing an Audit Trace.
SQL SERVER – Script to Find and Monitoring TempDB Space Usage
I have started blogging on my site long ago and my whole idea was to make script repository so that others can reuse it. Now when I look back, there are many scripts and many solutions which I have written. Personally, I have used many of them. Today I am sharing another script which I have used with one of my clients and it was very useful for me in troubleshooting a strange TempDB log file issue. Let us learn about Monitoring TempDB Space Usage.
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