SQL SERVER – FIX: CREATE FILE Encountered Operating System Error 5 (Access is Denied.)

One of my existing clients performed migration of disk in SQL Server failover cluster. After completing their planned activity, they found that SQL Server was not coming online in the cluster. In this blog, we would learn how to fix error CREATE FILE encountered operating system error 5(Access is denied.) on TempDB during SQL Server startup process.

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SQL SERVER – FIX: Backup to URL Error: Operating System Error 50(The Request is Not Supported.)

It is always fun to work with “Backup to URL” feature of SQL Server. The error messages which are raised are from Azure storage side and an SQLDBA won’t be able to understand the meaning. While I was working with my VM to learn something about Backup to URL feature, I realized that my backups were failing. In this blog, let us learn how to fix the back to URL error: Operating system error 50(The request is not supported.). Here are the exact messages which I was getting in ERRORLOG.

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Practical Real World Performance Tuning – Games , Interaction and Feedback

If you are following this blog, you would be familiar with my online class Practical Real World Performance Tuning with Brent Ozar. The course was initially planned to offer for only 3 different times this year. However, due to a popularity of the course, we had offered this course so far 5 times. The course is very unique and there is nothing out there which is comparable to this course. Let me just highlight a few points which makes me proud every time I talk about this course. Let us discuss Practical Real World Performance Tuning – Games , Interaction and Feedback.

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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.

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