One of my clients asked an interesting question. It took a while for me to figure out the answer so sharing with my blog readers. In this blog, we would learn how to change authentication mode of SQL Server using T-SQL query instead of SQL Server Management Studio.
Azure Virtual Machine – You Must Change Your Password Before Logging On The First Time
One fine day when I tried connecting to my Azure Virtual Machine in a cloud, I was welcomed with this error message.
SQL SERVER – Error: 45207 – SQL Server Managed Backup to Microsoft Azure Cannot Configure the Database Because a Container URL was Either not Provided or Invalid
While using SQL Server on Virtual Machines in Azure, I ran into an interesting error. In this blog we would learn how to fix Msg 45207 – SQL Server Managed Backup to Microsoft Azure cannot configure the database ‘sqlauthdb’ because a container URL was either not provided or invalid. It is also possible that your SAS credential is invalid.
SQL SERVER – FIX: Error – The Job Failed. Unable to Determine If The Owner Domain\User of Job Job_Name Has Server Access
I keep on breaking my lab environment and have learned many things from it. Here is one of the recent errors which I fixed. In this blog, we would learn how to fix error “The job failed. Unable to determine if the owner of job has server access.” While executing a SQL Agent job.
SQL SERVER – How to Generate Random Password? – Enhanced Version – Part 2
I have previously written about Random Password before in the blog posts here, here and here. This blog is sent by James Curran, who has created the following generate random password stored procedure keeping the base of the original solution of Tim Cartwright. Thanks to both of this individual SQL Server Expert who has helped me to come up with a more robust solution for a random password.
SQL SERVER – Unable to Load User-Specified Certificate [Cert Hash(sha1) “Thumbprint.here”]. The Server Will Not Accept a Connection
While preparing for a security demo, I broke my SQL Server and was unable to start it. In this blog, we would lean about fixing error Unable to load user-specified certificate.
SQL SERVER – ERROR: Failed to verify the Authenticode signature of FileName
Sometimes there is some malware which would do changes on the machine which is impossible to track. Most of the time, based on my interactions with various clients, we need to format and rebuild the OS because you never know what data is getting compromised using which program running in the background. In this blog, we would learn about an interesting error Failed to verify the Authenticode signature of the filename.