Explorations working with SQL Server never stop and I get an opportunity to learn something every other day. Today I thought of bringing pout some learning that happened to me by accident. As I was not sure and assumed certain things, these came as a surprise learning for me. So let us see what is the issue at hand, which is about Columnstore Index and Computed Column.
MySQL – Fix Error – WordPress Database Error Duplicate Entry for key PRIMARY for Query INSERT INTO wp_options
As many of you know that this blog runs on Wordpress and under the hood of Wordpress there is a MySQL database. MySQL database is quite good and is able to hold massive traffic this blog receives every day. However, just like any database MySQL needs tuning as well as proper management of the same. In this blog post we will discuss about how I received a very weird error Wordpress Database Error and how I resolved it.
SQL SERVER – FIX Error 18456, Severity: 14, State: 5. Login failed for user
Some errors are historic and have the most common root cause. Sometimes we really don’t know why they happen and I have seen clients go nuts to identify the real reason for the problem. In a recent email interaction with one customer – who was migrating from Oracle to SQL Server. He kept telling me that they were getting login errors from their Java application. And even when they used the SQL Server Management Studio it was erroring out with Error 18456 code. They sent me a snapshot like this for login failed:
SQL SERVER – GetRegKeyAccessMask : Could Not Get Registry Access Mask For Registry Key – SQL Server Cluster
I have been getting many requests from my HIRE-ME page and a few of them are getting change to my blog. This is the outcome of one of my clients who was having a strange issue. They were having 2 nodes SQL Server Cluster (NODE1 and NODE2) and SQL Server resource was not able to come online on NODE21but it was working fine when they failover to NODE2.
SQL SERVER – How to Fix Error 8134 Divide by Zero Error Encountered
Here is one of the most popular questions: How to overcome (Error 8134) Divide by Zero Error Encountered in SQL Server?
SQL SERVER – Fix Error – Cannot use the backup file because it was originally formatted with sector size 4096 and is now on a device with sector size 512
Here is a recent email which I received from Madhu. He is a beginner in the SQL Server and when he tried to take a backup from SSMS (SQL Server Management Studio), he got error related to backup file. As soon as he sent me an email I knew what was the exact problem, he was facing and I was able to help him quickly. Let us first recreate the same error and later on see how to fix the same.
SQL SERVER – Script level upgrade for database ‘master’ failed because upgrade step ‘upgrade_ucp_cmdw.sql’
Recently once by my client contacted via Skype to know my thoughts about a cluster failover failure issue. They were having two nodes SQL Clustered instance and it was running fine of Node1. As soon as they failover to Node2, it was not able to start and was failing with upgrade script. Let us learn about the script level upgrade for database ‘master’ failed because upgrade step ‘upgrade_ucp_cmdw.sql’.