An upgrade could not start SQL Server: Cannot drop the assembly ‘ISSERVER’, because it does not exist or you do not have permission. Here is another way to fix it.
SQL SERVER – Enabling Older Legacy Cardinality Estimation
Legacy Cardinality Estimation temporarily stabilized one customer memory-grant problem. A query waited on RESOURCE_SEMAPHORE while the instance became unresponsive.
Current Language of a SQL Server Session: How to Check It
To find the current language of a SQL Server session, read @@LANGUAGE or @@LANGID, or query sys.dm_exec_sessions. This post tests each one, switches the session to German and British, and shows how the language changes month names and how text turns into dates.
Visual Studio – FIX: The ‘SqlStudio Profile Package’ Package Did Not Load Correctly
Launching Visual Studio on my VM failed with: The ‘SqlStudio Profile Package’ package did not load correctly. I gathered a list of fixes that can solve it.
SQL SERVER – Availability Group Seen in SSMS but missing in Cluster Manager. What’s Wrong?
A client’s availability group showed in SSMS, but no role appeared in Failover Cluster Manager. Here is the sequence of steps that causes this and what to do.
SQL SERVER – Msg 2555: Cannot Move All Contents of File to Other Places to Complete the Emptyfile Operation
Removing extra TempDB files failed with Msg 2555: Cannot move all contents of file to other places to complete the emptyfile operation. Let me show you the steps.
SQL SERVER – Patch Failure – Unable to Retrieve the Cluster Service
Patching SQL Server 2008 R2 on a Windows Server 2012 cluster failed: unable to retrieve the Cluster Service. Here is what Detail.txt showed and the fix.