One question I always ask all of my customers before I start Comprehensive Database Performance Health Check is that if they have taken backup of their server. The answer to this question honestly does not matter to me during consultancy I never change anything which brings to the situation where they need to restore the database. However, when I asked this question to my client, they said they have an issue to identify a version of SQL Server from the backup file.
SQL SERVER – Creating Temporary and Global Temporary Stored Procedures
During recent Comprehensive Database Performance Health Check, I had a very interesting situation I encountered where we found a stored procedure which was a root cause of the slowness. What we needed to do is to change the code and test if our new stored procedure is better than previous stored procedure or not. One of the options was to create a new stored procedure by renaming the older stored procedure and keep on testing. However, there was a small risk if we forget to drop the newly created stored procedure there will be junk created in the database. Let us see how we can avoid this situation by creating temporary or global Temporary stored procedures.
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 – Puzzle – How Does YEAR Function Work?
There are many different datetime related functions such as DAY, MONTH, YEAR, DATEDIFF, etc available in SQL Server. For example, YEAR function can be used to extract year value from a date.
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.
What is Alternative to CASE Statement in SQL Server? – IIF Function – Interview Question of the Week #164
Question: What is Alternative to CASE Statement in SQL Server?
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.