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SQL SERVER – Unable to Start SQL Server Agent. Error – Driver’s SQLAllocHandle on SQL_HANDLE_ENV failed

February 23, 2018
Pinal Dave
SQL Tips and Tricks
SQL Error Messages, SQL Log, SQL Server, SQL Server Agent, SQL Server Services, Starting SQL

SQL Server Agent would not start, and the log said Driver’s SQLAllocHandle on SQL_HANDLE_ENV failed. Here are the logs I check and the fix I found.

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SQL SERVER – Unable to Start Jobs – Error: Enumerate Target Servers Failed for Job

February 22, 2018
Pinal Dave
SQL Tips and Tricks
SQL Error Messages, SQL Log, SQL Server, SQL Server Agent, Starting SQL

They showed me below error when they were trying to run a job. Let us see how we can fix the error Enumerate Target Servers Failed for Job.

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SQL SERVER – Script Level Upgrade for Database ‘master’ Failed Because Upgrade Step ‘sqlagent100_msdb_upgrade.sql’ – Error: 5041: MODIFY FILE Failed

February 13, 2018
Pinal Dave
SQL Tips and Tricks
SQL Error Messages, SQL Log, SQL Server, SQL Server Agent, SQL Upgrade, Starting SQL, System Database

One more cause of the script level upgrade failure for ‘sqlagent100_msdb_upgrade.sql’: Error 5041, MODIFY FILE failed. Here is how I fixed it.

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How to Schedule a Job in SQL Server? – Interview Question of the Week #160

February 11, 2018
Pinal Dave
SQL Interview Questions and Answers
SQL Server, SQL Server Agent, SQL Utility

How do you Schedule a Job in SQL Server? First make sure SQL Server Agent is running, then follow these simple screens to add the job, its steps and a schedule.

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SQL SERVER – Log Shipping Monitor Not Getting Updated

January 6, 2018
Pinal Dave
SQL Tips and Tricks
Log Shipping, SQL Error Messages, SQL Scripts, SQL Server, SQL Server Agent

The log shipping monitor stopped updating last_backup_file and last_backup_date for the primary, while every job ran fine. Here is how I traced it.

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SQL SERVER - SQL Agent Not Starting. The EventLog Service has Not Been Started

SQL SERVER – SQL Agent Not Starting. The EventLog Service has Not Been Started

August 14, 2017
Pinal Dave
SQL Tips and Tricks
SQL Error Messages, SQL Log, SQL Server, SQL Server Agent

After a server hardening script, a client’s SQL Agent would not start because the Eventlog Service had not been started. Here is how we traced and fixed it.

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SQL SERVER – Express and SQL Server Agent – Free Alternative

March 29, 2017
Pinal Dave
SQL Tips and Tricks
SQL Server, SQL Server Agent, SQL Server Express

Small Express database, big performance problems? Here is a free alternative that fills the gap between SQL Server Express and SQL Server Agent jobs.

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