Here is one of email which I received from one of my clients where he mentioned that he was unable to bring SQL Online.
Pinal,
I need assistance in getting the failed SQL Server resource online on the node named “SQLDBN01” for the Cluster named “DBCLUSTER01 “.
I checked the event log and have all generic messages. Do you have any expert trick?
Thanks!
There are many DBAs who create jobs in SQL Server to recycle ERRORLOG files every midnight. They also increase the files from 6 to a bigger number so that they have data for more than 6 days.
This was one of the interesting issues I solved in many days. One of my clients contacted me and told that they have scheduled a maintenance plan to take t-log backup at 10 PM but it’s not running. When we look into the job history, it was not showing any history. Some problem statements like these are interesting because they look trivial and simple – yet they are convoluted and not straightforward to solve. Let us learn how to solve Error “Maintenance plan scheduled, but the job is not running as per schedule”
SQL SERVER – Fix: Error: Msg 1904 The statistics on table has 65 columns in the key list. Let us learn how to fix in this blog.
Recently I was troubleshooting at a customer location something that looked trivial. When the customer approached me for a consulting requirement wherein they were saying their system was going unresponsive every day in the morning around a certain time. They were clueless to what is happening and why this was the case almost every day in the week. I got curious to understand what was going wrong with SQL Agent Jobs.
I have been writing on various ways of working with PowerShell and how to connect to SQL Server. Personally, when I see text on command prompt it is quite a mess and very difficult to decipher the same. If you play around and look at various blog posts, they show some interesting outputs even though they work to format PowerShell.
Working with powershell scripts can be interesting. I have in the past shown a number of such scripts that we can use with SQL Server. In this blog, I was playing around understanding how I can use the get-process commandlet and how it can be used with SQL Server. This exploration and playing around has got me to write this rather simple yet something useful blog that you might use in your environments.