While preparing for a demo for my upcoming session, I encountered an interesting error. I thought I have written a blog about it, but I was wrong. My earlier blog was about a different error which looks very similar. Here is my earlier blog for error 3132. SQL SERVER – FIX: Msg 3132, Level 16 – The Media Set has 2 Media Families but Only 1 is Provided. All Members Must be Provided. In this blog post, we will learn how to fix the error The Media Loaded on “Backup” is Formatted to Support 1 Media Families, but 2 Media Families are Expected According to the Backup Device Specification.
SQL SERVER – Database Attach Failure – Msg 2571 – User ‘guest’ Does Not Have Permission to Run DBCC Checkprimaryfile.
One of my clients was trying to recover from a disaster and wanted to attach the MDF and LDF files. While trying to do that, they encountered an error. In this blog we would learn about how to fix the error – User ‘guest’ does not have permission to run DBCC checkprimaryfile while attaching the database.
SQL SERVER – Fix Error 3271: A nonrecoverable I/O error occurred on file. The remote server returned an error: (404) Not Found
In SQL Server one error message can be caused due to many reasons. One of such error message is 3271 which is caused during failure of backup to URL command. Here are two earlier blogs about same error message 3271. (404) Not Found.
SQL SERVER – Fix Error 3271: A nonrecoverable I/O error occurred on file. The remote server returned an error: (403) Forbidden
One of my blog readers contacted me via email for an error message which he was receiving while using the backup to URL feature. Using this feature, SQL Server can take database backup directly to Azure Blob Storage. I have already written a blog about few errors which I received earlier but this error was new. I replied him asking more details and it was an easy error to fix. In this blog we would discuss how to fix 3271, The remote server returned an error: (403) Forbidden.
SQL SERVER – Error 1324. The folder path ‘Program Files’ contains an invalid character.
Error 1324. The folder path ‘Program Files’ contains an invalid character. Let us fix the error with the help of the solution in the blog.
SQL SERVER – The Automatically Saved Settings file NewSettings.vssettings Cannot be Found
After cleaning up some data from my user profile, when I launched SQL Server Management Studio 17.4, I got an error. related to automatically saved settings.
SQL SERVER – Why SQL Server Service is Stuck in Starting / Change Pending State?
Recently, I wrote a blog about “Change Pending” state of SQL Server service. After looking at that blog one of my readers contacted me via email for the “similar” issue. In this blog, we would learn about another variation of “Change Pending” state.






