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WRITELOG Waits: Finding What Slows Transaction Log Writes

February 4, 2019
Pinal Dave
SQL Performance
SQL Performance, SQL Server, SQL Wait Stats, Transaction Log

Diagnose WRITELOG waits with log-file latency, commit patterns, and measured choices for batching, storage, and durability.

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Does Parallel Threads Process Equal Rows? – Interview Question of the Week #211

February 3, 2019
Pinal Dave
SQL Interview Questions and Answers
Execution Plan, Parallel, SQL Scripts, SQL Server, SQL Statistics

Do parallel threads process equal rows? Usually no, and a simple AdventureWorks query with its actual execution plan proves it in a few seconds.

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Title card: Msg 2555: Cannot Move All Contents of File

SQL SERVER – Msg 2555: Cannot Move All Contents of File to Other Places to Complete the Emptyfile Operation

February 2, 2019
Pinal Dave
SQL Tips and Tricks
Shrinking Database, SQL Error Messages, SQL Scripts, SQL Server, SQL TempDB, Starting SQL

Removing extra TempDB files failed with Msg 2555: Cannot move all contents of file to other places to complete the emptyfile operation. Let me show you the steps.

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RSAT-ClusterTools installed in PowerShell.

SQL SERVER – Patch Failure – Unable to Retrieve the Cluster Service

February 1, 2019
Pinal Dave
SQL Tips and Tricks
SQL Error Messages, SQL Patch, SQL Server, SQL Server Cluster, SQL Server Services

Patching SQL Server 2008 R2 on a Windows Server 2012 cluster failed: unable to retrieve the Cluster Service. Here is what Detail.txt showed and the fix.

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SQL SERVER - Error 1051: A Stop Control Has Been Sent to a Service that Other Running Services are Dependent On

SQL SERVER – Error 1051: A Stop Control Has Been Sent to a Service that Other Running Services are Dependent On

January 31, 2019
Pinal Dave
SQL Tips and Tricks
Computer Network, SQL Error Messages, SQL Server, SQL Server Services

Stopping SQL Server in my lab gave Error 1051: A stop control has been sent to a service that other running services are dependent on. Here is what caused it.

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Deployment Target Version.

SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) – There Was an Exception While Loading Script Task from XML

January 29, 2019
Pinal Dave
SQL Tips and Tricks
SQL Error Messages, SQL Scripts, SQL Server, SQL XML, SSIS

An SSIS package ran fine in Visual Studio but failed as a SQL Agent job: There was an exception while loading Script Task from XML. Here is why and the fix.

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SSMS - Azure Storage Error - A Connection Attempt Failed Because the Connected Party did not Properly Respond After a Period of Time

SSMS – Azure Storage Error – A Connection Attempt Failed Because the Connected Party did not Properly Respond After a Period of Time

January 28, 2019
Pinal Dave
SQL Tips and Tricks
Computer Network, SQL Azure, SQL Data Storage, SQL Error Messages, SQL Server

SSMS could not open Azure Storage: a connection attempt failed because the connected party did not properly respond. Here is what caused it.

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