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Mar15

SQL SERVER – Maintenance Plan – Could not load type ‘Microsoft.SqlServer.Dts. Runtime.Wrapper. IDTSPackageSigning100’ from Assembly

Pinal Dave

SQL

Maintenance Plan, SQL Error Messages, SQL Server, SQL Server Management Studio

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One of my client was unable to modify the maintenance plan using SSMS. When we did various tests, we found that existing maintenance plans could execute and work. We tried creating a new maintenance plan and found it to be working. So, our issue is confined to “unable to modify existing plans”. Here is the error message

Mar14

SQL SERVER – Errorlog The Server was Unable to Initialize Encryption Because of a Problem with a Security Library

Pinal Dave

SQL

Registry, SQL Error Messages, SQL Server, SQL Server Services

One of my client was trying to start SQL Service and it was failing. I asked to hare ERRORLOG so that we will get some idea about the cause. Here is the information from ERRORLOG file.

Mar13

SQL SERVER – FIX : Error Msg 8672 – The MERGE Statement Attempted to UPDATE or DELETE the Same Row More Than Once

Pinal Dave

SQL

SQL Error Messages, SQL Scripts, SQL Server

While I have been blogging about SQL Server for a long time, I still believe that there is still a lot of error which are not discovered by me. It is always fun to see new error and find a fix for the issue. Let us see how to fix error related to MERGE statement.

Mar12

How to Get Status of Running Backup and Restore in SQL Server? – Interview Question of the Week #113

Pinal Dave

SQL Interview Questions and Answers

SQL Backup, SQL Restore, SQL Scripts, SQL Server

QHow to Get Status of Running Backup and Restore in SQL Server?

Mar11

SQL SERVER – PRINTing Status Using RAISERROR With NOWAIT Option

Pinal Dave

SQL

SQL Error Messages, SQL Scripts, SQL Server

In this blog post we are going to learn about PRINTing Status Using RAISERROR With NOWAIT Option.

Mar10

SQL SERVER – Script Upgrade – Server Principal ‘MS_PolicyEventProcessingLogin’ Has Granted One or More Permission(s)

Pinal Dave

SQL

SQL Error Messages, SQL Scripts, SQL Server, SQL Server Configuration, Starting SQL

One should be very careful while working with system objects in SQL Server. Below is one of the situation where some permissions were given on system objects which was causing SQL startup failure. I have written various blog on script upgrade mode of SQL Server.

Mar9

SQL SERVER – FIX : Msg 35295, Level 16 – Log Backup For Database ‘DBName’ on a Secondary Replica Failed

Pinal Dave

SQL

AlwaysOn, SQL Backup, SQL Log, SQL Mirroring, SQL Server

Once, while doing a load testing with my client, I was shown below error while taking log backups on secondary replica.

Msg 35295, Level 16, State 1, Line 1
Log backup for database “MyAppDB” on a secondary replica failed because the last backup LSN (0x0016ff11:00032258:0001) from the primary database is greater than the current local redo LSN (0x0016ffec:0006ee28:0001). No log records need to be backed up at this time. Retry the log-backup operation later.
Msg 3013, Level 16, State 1, Line 1
BACKUP LOG is terminating abnormally.

Pinal Dave is an SQL Server Performance Tuning Expert and independent consultant with over 24 years of hands-on experience. He holds a Masters of Science degree and numerous database certifications.

Pinal has authored 14 SQL Server database books and 100 Pluralsight courses. To freely share his knowledge and help others build their expertise, Pinal has also written more than 5,800 database tech articles on his blog at https://blog.sqlauthority.com.

Pinal is an experienced and dedicated professional with a deep commitment to flawless customer service. If you need help with any SQL Server Performance Tuning Issues, please feel free to reach out at pinal@sqlauthority.com.

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