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Title card: Event ID 7000: The System Cannot Find the File Specified

SQL SERVER – Event ID 7000 – The System Cannot Find the File Specified

January 16, 2020
Pinal Dave
SQL Tips and Tricks
Computer Network, Registry, SQL Error Messages, SQL Scripts, SQL Server, SQL Server Agent

This blog is from one that came from a DBA from one of my consulting engagements. Let us learn how to fix event id 7000 error.

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Title card: Log Shipping Error: Only Members of sysadmin Role

SQL SERVER – Log Shipping Error: Only Members of the Sysadmin Fixed Server Role Can Perform this Operation – 2

January 9, 2020
Pinal Dave
SQL Tips and Tricks
Log Shipping, SQL Error Messages, SQL Scripts, SQL Server, SQL Server Agent, SQL Server Security

Many disaster recovery solutions are available in SQL Server. Let’s learn how we can fix a specific log shipping error about the sysadmin fixed server role. 

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Application Locks With sp_getapplock: One Job at a Time

November 15, 2019
Pinal Dave
SQL Tips and Tricks
SQL Lock, SQL Server, SQL Server Agent, SQL Stored Procedure, SQL Transactions

Use sp_getapplock to serialize a job, compare transaction and session ownership, handle return codes, and inspect a two-session test.

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Become Idle

SQL SERVER – SQL Agent – Job Start Whenever the CPUs Become Idle

September 28, 2019
Pinal Dave
SQL Tips and Tricks
SQL CPU, SQL Server, SQL Server Agent, SQL Server Management Studio

Recently I was asked by the customer of Comprehensive Database Performance Health Check about SQL Agent and Job starting whenever CPU Become Idle.

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SQL SERVER – SQL Agent Job and Backslash – Strange Behavior

July 18, 2019
Pinal Dave
SQL Puzzle
SQL Scripts, SQL Server, SQL Server Agent, SQL Stored Procedure

Today’s blog post is about SQL Agent Job and Backslash. I was surprised to see this behavior. Here are the steps to reproduce this behavior.

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Performance Condition Alerts: Warnings Before a Log File Fills

June 20, 2019
Pinal Dave
SQL Tips and Tricks
DBA, SQL Monitoring, SQL Server Agent, Transaction Log

Build performance condition alerts for log usage, tempdb free space, and blocking, with sensible delays and an operator response.

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SQL SERVER - SQL Service Not Getting Started Automatically After Server Reboot While Using gMSA Account

SQL SERVER – SQL Service Not Getting Started Automatically After Server Reboot While Using gMSA Account

February 27, 2019
Pinal Dave
SQL Tips and Tricks
SQL Error Messages, SQL Server, SQL Server Agent, SQL Server Security, SQL Server Services

My first gMSA test: SQL Service was not started automatically after server reboot, even with automatic startup set. Here is what the event log showed.

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