How to Find Service Account for SQL Server and SQL Server Agent? – Interview Question of the Week #179

Question: How to Find Service Account for SQL Server and SQL Server Agent?

Answer: As they say – There are more ways than one to skin a cat. In this blog, we will find multiple methods to find out service account used for SQL Server service and SQL Agent Service

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SQL SERVER – SQL Server Agent Not Starting – Failed to Initialize SQL Agent Log (Reason: Access is Denied).

My lab machine is my playground. Other than my real-world client’s problem, many blogs have come from my lab machine because I keep on breaking something or another on my server. Once I found that I was unable to start SQL Server Agent service for one of the SQL Server instances. In this blog, we would learn how to fix error Failed to initialize SQL Agent log (reason: Access is denied)

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SQL SERVER – Upgrade Error – Upgrading Subscription Settings and System Objects in Database [DBName].

There are many causes of SQL server patching failure. Looking at right log and finding the right cause is the key to solve it in time. In this blog, we would learn about an upgrade error which comes during “Upgrading subscription settings and system objects in database.”

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SQL SERVER – Unable to Failover SQL Server Instance – Error: Registry Information is Corrupt or Missing

All RDBMS products are good, but I love SQL Server most because its fun to troubleshoot the issue. Meaningful error messages can make life easier and helps us in fixing the issue faster. Another reason I love SQL Server is that is my source of earning and I can run my family life due to SQL Server. In this blog, I am going to share my experience to fix an issue where my client was unable to failover SQL Server to another node.

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SQL SERVER – Databases Going to Recovery Pending State Randomly

One of my famous offerings is Comprehensive Database Performance Health Check where we always go over various SQL Server and database level properties. Lots of people do not know that there are quite a few SQL Server and database level settings which can help us improve our SQL Server performance many folds. Let us learn in this blog post how to fix the error about Databases Going to Recovery Pending State Randomly.

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SQL SERVER – Service Pack Failure: MissingRegistryKeyException. The Registry Key is Missing

One of my blog readers contacted me and informed that he is getting the same error as mentioned in below blog SQL SERVER – Service Pack Failure: MissingRegistryKeyException. Note that it had the same error message, but that did not help him here. In this blog, we would learn how to fix MissingRegistryKeyException while installing SQL Server service pack. Let us fix the error registry key is missing. 

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