SQL SERVER – Unable to Start SQL Server After Patching
This is one of the common questions which lands in my mailbox via email about how to Start SQL Server after patch update. Hi Pinal, I have an issue on my UAT environment. I was unable to start the SQL...
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SQL SERVER – Install Error – Could not Find the Database Engine Startup Handle
Note: There are multiple reason of above error and this blog shows just one of them. I am sure that this blog would give you guideline about what do to in case you see this error about install error....
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SQL SERVER – Event 17058 – initerrlog: Could not Open Error Log File
If you have ever interacted with me or taken my services, you would notice that I always ask for ERRORLOG in almost all of my contact with my client. Once of my friend contacted me and when I asked for...
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How to Get Started with SQL Server 2016? – Interview Question of the Week #085
Interviews are two way streets, sometime interviewer asks questions and sometime candidate asks questions. In a recent interview, I was asked by a candidate “How to Get Started with SQL Server 2016?”....
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How to Find Missing SQL Server Configuration Manager? – Interview Question of...
Question: I just installed the latest version of SQL Server and now I am not able to find SQL Server Configuration Manager. What should I do? Answer: I just happen to participate in the interview...
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SQL SERVER – Unable to Start Services After Patching (sqlagent_msdb_upgrade.sql)
In the recent past, I have heard this issue, at least once or twice every month. Whenever I try to help a such client and I think I know the issue, I get something new. They said that they have applied...
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SQL SERVER – Configuring Startup Options for SQL Server Management Studio
Yesterday I started my day early to get to a gym. I know this was the first day and I had loads of work pending to be completed at work too. This got me busy and I started to drive my car, oblivious of...
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SQL SERVER – Unable to Bring SQL Online – DoSQLDataRootApplyACL : Failed to...
Here is one of email which I received from one of my clients where he mentioned that he was unable to bring SQL Online. Pinal, I need assistance in getting the failed SQL Server resource online on the...
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SQL SERVER – Unable to bring resource online. Error – Data source name not...
One of my blog readers reported a strange issue to me. As per the issue described, they were unable to bring SQL Server resource in cluster online, only on one node of the cluster. I always use for...
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SQL SERVER – Unable to Bring Resource Online – Error – Could Not Find Any IP...
When it rains, it pours. In the last few days last few contacts from my customers were for cluster related issues. Once again, SQL Server resource was not coming online in failover cluster manager. I...
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SQL SERVER – Best Practices About SQL Server Service Account and Password...
One of my clients posted a question to me about management of SQL Server service account. Since it was a nice learning for me, I am sharing my discussion via this blog post. Let us see the Best...
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SQL SERVER – Rule “Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) Service” failed
When I visit my client site for doing performance tuning consulting, I sometimes get trapped with some unrelated issue. Here is one of the situation where they were upgrading from SQL 2008 R2 to SQL...
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SQL SERVER Management Studio – Taking DB Offline Made Easier
I have an appetite to observe and learn from what happens around me more. These are the best ways we realize how life has been gifted to us. Since I have been traveling lately like mad with families...
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SQL SERVER – Unable to bring resource online – Error DoREPLSharedDataUpgrade...
A few days ago I wrote a blog about a cluster related issue where the configuration was not same on both the nodes, which was causing issues. SQL SERVER – Unable to bring resource online. Error – Data...
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SQL SERVER – How to Download Microsoft OLE DB Provider for Oracle (MSDAORA)...
During my recent conversation about Oracle linked server with one of my client, I learned something new about “Microsoft OLE DB Provider for Oracle”. This blog has highlights of a lengthy conversation....
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SQL SERVER – The Log Scan Number Passed to Log Scan in Database ‘master’ is...
If you have landed on this blog by searching below error, then I must tell you that your SQL Server service is not getting started. Let us learn in this blog how to fix The Log Scan Number Passed to...
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SQL SERVER – Script level upgrade for database ‘master’ failed – There is...
SQL Server troubleshooting topics seem to be the most searched for in this blog. In continuation to this, blog for today is also inspired with one such error message. Some time back I have written...
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SQL SERVER – SQL Installation fails with error code 0x851A001A – Wait on the...
One of my client was trying to deploy his product on their test servers. They found that the SQL Server installation was failing with below error. Let us learn about error Wait on the Database Engine...
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SQL SERVER – Error: 566, Severity: 21 – An Error Occurred While Writing an...
Have you ever been in a situation where SQL Server shuts down by itself? It sounds strange but I met across a gentleman in flight who reported this issue to me. Since I was curious to know the cause,...
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SQL SERVER – The header for file Path is not a valid database file header....
If you are coming to this page by searching, then I am sure that you are in big trouble. I have come across this error and my SQL Server was not getting started. When I looked into ERRORLOG, I found...
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