Sometimes it is important to read the documentation before assuming things based on the text. This blog is the result of one of my quick interaction with a client who had an issue with Maintenance Plan which they created for backup files.
SQL Azure Database – Msg 40197, Level 20 – The Service has Encountered an Error Processing Your Request. Please Try Again. Error Code 40549
While trying to help one of my clients, I was shown below error which was received using bulk insert command. The command was used to move data from Azure Blob Storage to SQL Azure Database. Let us see how to fix the error processing request.
SQL SERVER – Database Mirroring Login Attempt Failed With Error: ‘Connection Handshake Failed. There is No Compatible Encryption Algorithm. State 22
One of my client was trying to convert database mirroring to the AlwaysOn availability group. They had a mirroring configure where the principal server was going to become a primary replica. When they attempted to join the AG, it was failing with an error. The error messages we were getting in the wizard are not helpful. I went ahead and looked into SQL Server ERRORLOG and found below the messages
SQL SERVER – Ghost Cleanup Getting Hung and Blocking Checkpoint Process. What’s Wrong?
Have you even been in a situation where system processes are taking CPU and not moving ahead? Recently, one of my clients showed me a system where checkpoint on the user database being blocked indefinitely by ghost cleanup.
SQL SERVER – Clustered SQL Resource Not Coming Online
When I was on-site for the performance tuning workshop, few DBAs suddenly got call as there was an unexpected downtime of SQL Server. As per them, after some maintenance activities were scheduled, the SQL Server resource failed to come online on both nodes. When they try to bring it online, it remains in online pending state for some time before failing eventually. Here are the things I tried. Let us see an error related to clustered SQL Resource not coming online.
SQL SERVER – Installation Wizard Hangs at Service Account Page – The RPC Server is Unavailable
While trying to install SQL Server 2012 in clustered environment, client reported that it is hanging at “Please Wait” state forever. Eventually they have to kill the setup by task manager. Let us see an error related to RPC Server.
SQL SERVER – Unable to Start SQL Service – OS Error 5 (Access is denied.) for TempDB
This was really one of the issue where I was totally confused because SQL Server was raising incorrect error message. Let me first tell you what I was doing. I was trying to move TEMPDB database files to a new location. I ran below alter commands and restarted SQL Server. Let us learn about OS Error 5.