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SQL SERVER – FIX: ERROR : Msg 3136, Level 16, State 1 – This differential backup cannot be restored because the database has not been restored to the correct earlier state

Pinal Dave
SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks
SQL Backup and Restore
During my recent visit to customer site for a session on backups, they asked me to find the cause of the error while restoring a differential backup. Though this seemed to be completely an admin related topic and I had gone for some other session, I took the challenge head-on.…
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SQL SERVER – FIX: ERROR : Msg 3023, Level 16, State 2 – Backup, file manipulation operations (such as ALTER DATABASE ADD FILE) and encryption changes on a database must be serialized

Pinal Dave
SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks
SQL Backup and Restore, SQL Error Messages
Errors are the best way to learn how SQL Server works and as DBA’s we are bound to see many of them from time to time. One of the primary functions of a DBA would include creating backups and most importantly trying to automate the same using jobs and maintenance…
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SQL SERVER – Msg 1206, Level 18, State 118 – The Microsoft Distributed Transaction Coordinator (MS DTC) has cancelled the distributed transaction

Pinal Dave
SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks
SQL Error Messages
The saga of working with error messages continues. Here is an error that was shared at one of the User group meetings by a member. While working via linked server to do data manipulation they reported this error on their servers: Msg 1206, Level 18, State 118, Line 9 The…
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