QL SERVER – Unable to Create Listener: Msg 41009 – The Windows Server Failover Clustering (WSFC) Resource Control API Returned Error Code 5057

One of my clients contacted me for quick On-Demand consulting. They were working under close deadlines and delivering the solution on time was critical for their success. They contacted me and explained that they were having trouble creating a listener for their two nodes AlwaysOn Availability Group. The error message which they received from T-SQL is below. Let us learn how we can fix error related to Windows Server Failover Clustering.

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SQL SERVER – How to Fix High CPU Consumption on SQL Server 2017 and 2016

In this blog post, we are going to discuss how to fix high CPU Consumption on SQL Server 2016 and SQL Server 2017. One of the large multinational corporations recently hired me for Comprehensive Database Performance Health Check. Usually, customer hires me once and we are able to fix all of their problems in very little time. However, this customer had a very unique scenario and I had to engage twice to help them out.

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SQL SERVER – The Report Server Cannot Open a Connection to the Report Server Database. (rsReportServerDatabaseLogonFailed)

When my clients contact me for any issue, I always try to help them or redirect them to someone who can help them better than me. Once a client contacted me for an issue with SQL Server Reporting Services. As usual, I didn’t give up, but I investigated error message and applied a logical approach to fixing it. Let us see how to fix the error related to report server database. 

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SQL SERVER – FIX: Msg 3231 – The Media Loaded on “Backup” is Formatted to Support 1 Media Families, but 2 Media Families are Expected According to the Backup Device Specification

While preparing for a demo for my upcoming session, I encountered an interesting error. I thought I have written a blog about it, but I was wrong. My earlier blog was about a different error which looks very similar. Here is my earlier blog for error 3132. SQL SERVER – FIX: Msg 3132, Level 16 – The Media Set has 2 Media Families but Only 1 is Provided. All Members Must be Provided. In this blog post, we will learn how to fix the error The Media Loaded on “Backup” is Formatted to Support 1 Media Families, but 2 Media Families are Expected According to the Backup Device Specification.

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