This year has been filled with data privacy and protection concerns. From the introduction of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the exposure of data breaches at Cambridge Analytica, Facebook and Under Armour, to new legislation springing up in the US, including New York’s Stop Hacks and Improve Electronic Data Security Act (SHIELD) and the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). Stories about the value of data – and the risks associated with it – are everywhere. As data professionals, the pressure is there to achieve a balance between compliance and the need to deliver faster than ever.
SQL SERVER – OLE DB Provider ‘Microsoft.ACE.OLEDB.12.0’ for Linked Server ‘(null)’ Returned Message ‘Unspecified Error’
There are many situations where you have to create a linked server to Microsoft Excel and read data from there. While doing that, I encountered an error and in this blog, we would discuss how to fix OLE DB provider ‘Microsoft.ACE.OLEDB.12.0’ for linked server ‘(null)’ returned message ‘Unspecified error’
SQL SERVER – Get List of the Logical and Physical Name of the Files in the Entire Database
One of the most popular questions I often receive is why do I like to do consultation – my answer is very simple – it gives me an opportunity to learn continuously learn new things from my clients. Here is a script which I have built during my recent Comprehensive Database Performance Health Check. To perform one of the performance tuning tasks we needed a list of all the logical and physical names for the files for every single database on the SQL Server Instance. Here is the script which can list all the physical and logical name of the files along with their type as well.
SQL SERVER – Steps to Change IP Address of SQL Server Failover Cluster Instance
There have been many questions in my mailbox asking about exact steps to change the windows cluster and SQL failover cluster IP address to the new VLAN. In this blog, I would outline the steps which are needed to perform this migration.
SQL SERVER – Initializing the FallBack Certificate Failed With Error Code: 1, State: 20, Error Number: 0
One of my clients came with an issue with SQL Server startup. As per them, they just changed the password of SQL Server Service account using the configuration manager. In this blog we would learn about how to fix Initializing the FallBack certificate failed with error code: 1, state: 20, error number: 0 during SQL startup.
SQL SERVER – AlwaysOn – Queries Waiting for HADR_AR_CRITICAL_SECTION_ENTRY
In the past few days, I am being contacted by clients for AlwaysOn related issue. I have been writing a blog about them. In this blog, we would learn about how to fix wait for HADR_AR_CRITICAL_SECTION_ENTRY.
SQL SERVER – Script level upgrade for database ‘master’ failed because upgrade step msdb110_upgrade.sql encountered error 926, state 1, severity 25
I have helped many clients in upgrade failures via my On-Demand consulting and I am amazed to see various ways which can break SQL Server upgrade. In this blog we would learn about fixing error Script level upgrade for database ‘master’ failed because of upgrade step ‘sqlagent100_msdb_upgrade.sql’