Last year, I have written a blog to install sample database WideWorldImporters SQL SERVER 2016 – How to Import New Sample Database WideWorldImporters. Recently, while I was showing demo to a client, they informed that I don’t have a blog about data-warehouse database WideWorldImportersDW. In this blog we would learn about how to install database WideWorldImportersDW.bak
Download and Install SQL SERVER 2017 Developer Edition for FREE
SQL Server 2017 has been released for a while. I have been using it for a while and it is a pretty stable release from Microsoft.
SQL SERVER – Fix: Error – VS Shell Installation Has Failed with Exit Code 1638
Recently I got called in by a regular customer for my On Demand (50 minutes) service. Every single day I keep two hours available to help DBAs who need urgent help with SQL Server. When I connected with a customer, I was expecting to solve their SQL Server performance tuning problem. However, I quickly realized that the issue was not SQL Server Performance but was rather with SQL Server 2017 installation. Let us see how we can fix the error users are receiving related to VS Shell.
SQL SERVER – Error While Enabling Windows Feature: NetFx3, Error Code: 2146498298
Due to development challenge people still use SQL 2012 in production. In one of the case a client told me that their application vendor has not approved SQL 2014 and above, so they were forced to install SQL 2012. There were getting below error while trying to install SQL Server 2012. Let us learn how to fix error while enabling windows feature.
Installation Error – Updating Permission Setting for File Failed
My client contacted me for a quick assistance in a setup trouble. Let us learn about how to fix Installation Error.
SQL SERVER – Why Edition Upgrade is Not Upgrading Edition of SQL Server?
Sometimes many DBAs are so expert in many areas like performance tuning or backup/restore, they miss simple stuff. One of my DBA friends was running Standard Edition of SQL Server 2016 in production and want to upgrade the edition to Enterprise – core based edition. Let us learn about Edition Upgrade issue.
SQL SERVER – Setup Rule: Microsoft .NET Application Security. The computer cannot access the Internet
There are many rules in SQL Server setup which are checked to make sure that the user is not seeing failure at the end of the installation. Most of the rules are generally passed, but few of them are known to generate warnings. One of such rule is Microsoft .NET Application Security which can be seen below.