SQL SERVER – Fix : Error : The request failed or the service did not respond in a timely fashion

Two days ago, I was participating TechEd India 2011 and I had a great time presenting on various subjects. My computer fortunately behaved very well and I consider myself lucky for it. However, very next day, today, when I went to the office and turned on the machine, it did not start SQL Server. I was a bit confused and very quickly checked SQL Server Services. I noticed that services were OFF. I tried to turn on the services, but it keeps on giving me following error about request failed.

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SQL SERVER – Denali – Improvement in Startup Options

I often work with advanced features of the SQL Server and this really led me to change how SQL Server is starting up. Recently I was changing the start up options in SQL Server and I was very delighted when I saw the startup option screen in Denali. It has really improved and is very convenient to use. Now I realized that the more I use Denali, the more I love it.

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SQLAuthority News – Win Surprise Gift at TechED 2011 Sessions – Wait Types and Extended Events

A quick note for all – If you are attending my TechEd sessions today here are few notes for you. Session Time Sessions Date: March 25, 2011 Understanding SQL Server Behavioral Pattern – SQL Server Extended Events Date and Time: March 25, 2011 12:00 PM to 01:00 PM SQL Server…
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SQL SERVER – Tomorrow 2 Sessions on Performance Tuning at TechEd India 2011 – March 25, 2011

Tomorrow is the third day of the TechED India 2011 at Bangalore. I will be speaking on two very interesting sessions. If you are developer, database administrator or just want to learn something new and interesting, I suggest you attend my two sessions tomorrow. Here is the details of the…
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SQL SERVER – Denali – ObjectID in Negative – Local TempTable has Negative ObjectID

I used to run the following script to generate random large results. However, when I ran this on Denali I noticed a very interesting behavior: SELECT o1.OBJECT_ID,o1.name, o2.OBJECT_ID, o2.name FROM sys.all_objects o1 CROSS JOIN sys.all_objects o2 I noticed lots of negative object_ID’s on Denali, whereas my experience on SQL Server…
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