SQL Server Performance Tuning Expert - SQL Authority with Pinal Dave

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Dec13

SQL SERVER – Error After Cluster Patching – Error: 5184, Severity: 16, State: 2

Pinal Dave

SQL

SQL Error Messages, SQL Server, SQL Server Cluster

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During my last consulting engagement, I was pulled by my client to consider an issue which they were facing. They informed that they have applied service pack on one of their clustered environment and since than SQL Server is not coming online. I asked to share ERRORLOG from the SQL instance. SQL SERVER – Where is ERRORLOG? Various Ways to Find ERRORLOG Location. Let us learn about how to fix error after cluster patching.

Dec12

SQL SERVER – Clustered Instance Online Error – SQL Server Network Interfaces: Error Locating Server/Instance Specified [xFFFFFFFF]

Pinal Dave

SQL

SQL Error Messages, SQL Server, SQL Server Cluster

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While I was playing with SQL Cluster in my lab, I restarted the VMs and found that I was not able to bring SQL Server online. As always I was looking for error message, but there was nothing interesting. Let us see in this blog post how to fix Clustered Instance Online Error.

Dec11

Special Icon on System-Versioned Table in SQL Server 2016 – Interview Question of the Week #101

Pinal Dave

SQL Interview Questions and Answers

SQL Server, SQL Server Management Studio, SQL System Table, Temporal Table

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Question: I just installed SQL Server 2016 developer version and new samples database WideWorldImports, upon expanding the tables, I noticed a special icon on the System-Versioned table which looks like a watch. What does this special icon which looks like a watch represents in SQL Server Management Studio 2016?

Dec10

SQL SERVER – Unable to create login AlwaysOn availability group secondary replica

Pinal Dave

SQL Tips and Tricks

AlwaysOn, SQL Error Messages, SQL Server

One of my clients reported a usual behavior of the AlwaysOn availability group. He informed me that he is trying to add a login on the secondary replica in the AlwaysOn AG environment but it is failing with below error:

Dec9

SQL SERVER – Error: 26014 – Unable to Load User-Specified Certificate

Pinal Dave

SQL

SQL Certifications, SQL Error Messages, SQL Server, SQL Server Security

After seeing various issues with SQL Server startup problem, I felt that I know almost most of the errors, but I was wrong till someone contacted me with a new error. But I learned that Errorlog is always a good place to start with. SQL SERVER – Where is ERRORLOG? Various Ways to Find ERRORLOG Location. Let us learn in this blog post we are going to learn how to fix unable to load user-specified certificate. Here is what I saw in my client’s machine.

Dec8

SQL SERVER Management Studio – Taking DB Offline Made Easier

Pinal Dave

SQL Tips and Tricks

SQL Server, SQL Server Management Studio, Starting SQL

I have an appetite to observe and learn from what happens around me more. These are the best ways we realize how life has been gifted to us. Since I have been traveling lately like mad with families where there has been enough vacation filled with some work sporadically, I got to see how my family enjoys the moment they have in hand. I know it is difficult to get the fee time, but it is a great break from the norm. In my recent Europe trip with my family, I was to travel in a train for close to 3+ hours and I was wondering what I am going to do. Obviously, I had some books to kill my time, but I chose not to do that because my daughter was around. As we boarded the train and started our journey, the initial excitement moved to become “What next?”. As I started to think, I saw my daughter quickly jump into her grandfather’s seat and started to say something and they both got busy watching the sky. Getting curious, I was trying to figure out what both were up to. Interestingly, my daughter made-up a game to create shapes and characters from the moving clouds. And both got busy. Let us learn in this blog post how we can take a database offline.

Dec7

SQL SERVER – FIX – Error: 26023 – TCP Port is Already in Use

Pinal Dave

SQL

Computer Network, SQL Error Messages, SQL Server

One of my clients approach me that after patching of SQL instances, database mirroring stopped working. As usual, I asked them to share ERRORLOG file SQL SERVER – Where is ERRORLOG? Various Ways to Find ERRORLOG Location. In this blog post we will learn about how to fix error 26023 TCP Port is Already in Use.

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.

Pinal is also a CrossFit Level 1 Trainer (CF-L1) and CrossFit Level 2 Trainer (CF-L2).

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