SQL SERVER – FIX: Install Error: A Network-Related or Instance-Specific Error Occurred While Establishing a Connection to SQL Server

One of the most common connectivity errors which I have heard about it is “A network-related or instance-specific error occurred while establishing a connection to SQL Server.” In this blog, we would learn about how to fix this error if it comes during the installation of SQL Server.

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Get-AzureStorageBlob: The Remote Server Returned an Error: (403) Forbidden. HTTP Status Code: 403 – HTTP Error Message: This Request is Not Authorized to Perform This Operation

I was working with one of my clients and they wanted to clean up old backup blobs from Azure. I have already blogged and shared my script. In this blog we would learn how to fix error: (403) Forbidden – This request is not authorized to perform this operation. SQL SERVER – PowerShell Script – Remove Old SQL Database Backup Files From Azure Storage

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SQL SERVER – Identify the column(s) responsible for “String or binary data would be truncated.”

I am happy to write this blog post as I am really happy that finally, SQL Server Engineering team has decided to fix the error which we all have been struggling for many years. I will say Since the year 2000, I have been working with SQL Server and it has always bothered me that every time when I try to insert data into my table which is larger than the data type of the column, I got an annoying error String or binary data would be truncated. I recently demonstrated this to my Comprehensive Database Performance Health Check.

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SQL SERVER – Script Level Upgrade for Database ‘master’ Failed Because Upgrade Step ‘SSIS_hotfix_install.sql’ Encountered Error 15151

Recently I was helping a client where SQL Server upgrade was failing with an error. If you have seen my blogs, there have been many blogs where I explain steps to fix upgrade-related issues. In this blog, we would learn about fixing another cause of script level upgrade for database ‘master’ failed.

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SQL SERVER – Error in Validation: Listener in Workgroup – Unable to determine if the computer exists in the domain ‘WORKGROUP’

There are many deployments where I have assisted my clients in creating Always On Availability Groups. Sometimes they come to me with special requirements, based on their infrastructure, and I always learn from them. In this situation, my client was trying to create a listener in a workgroup, and it was failing with error: Unable to determine if the computer ‘ListenerName’ exists in the domain ‘WORKGROUP’

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