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SQL SERVER – Msg 3292: A Failure Occurred While Attempting to Execute Backup...
In my recent project with a customer, they wanted to configure SQL backups to Azure Blob Storage. When we were trying to take a backup, we were facing error. In this blog we would learn how to fix...
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SQL SERVER – Backup to URL – Script to Generate Credential and Backup using...
As I mentioned in my earlier blog, backup to URL is one of the common methods used in SQL Server performs a backup to Azure Blob Storage. In this blog, I am going to share a script to generate the...
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SQL SERVER – Backup to URL – Script to Perform Stripped Backup using Shared...
Here are my previous blogs about Backup to URL, I have share scripts to take backup using Access Keys and SAS Token. One of my blog readers wanted to take stripped backup to Azure Blob. In this blog, I...
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SQL SERVER – Backup Error: 3636 – An Error Occurred While Processing...
Recently one of my old clients contacted me and informed that they are having an issue with database backup on the secondary replica. In this blog we would learn about how to fix error 3636 – An error...
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SQL SERVER – FIX: Backup to URL Error: Operating System Error 50(The Request...
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...
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SQL SERVER – Rebuild Index Job Failed – Error: 9002 – The Transaction Log for...
Sometimes we have an error in SQL Server job history which are not very accurate to find the cause of an issue. In this blog we would explore a situation where rebuild index job was failing with error...
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SQL SERVER – Monitor Estimated Completion Times for Backup, Restore and DBCC...
Earlier this week, we were fortunate to receive an amazing script to overview HADR / AlwaysOn Local Replicate server from SQL Server Expert Dominic Wirth. You can read the amazing script here: Scripts...
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Where is the Default Settings for Backup Compression? – Interview Question of...
Question: Where is the Default Settings for Backup Compression? Answer: I think before I continue more on this blog post, I must show you an image which has created this question. Please look at the...
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SQL SERVER – Restoring SQL Server 2017 to SQL Server 2005 Using Generate Scripts
Let me answer the first question first – There is no way to backup and restore SQL Server 2017 to SQL Server 2005 with the help of any tools. In this blog post, we will learn about how we can generate...
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SQL SERVER – Error: 45207 – SQL Server Managed Backup to Microsoft Azure...
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...
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SQL SERVER – SQL Server Management Studio Crash While Using Backup to URL or...
Recently, as a part of my on-demand consulting, I was helping a client who was into a disaster situation and there was an urgent need to restore the backup of a database which was taken in Azure Blob...
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SQL SERVER – Finding Compression Ratio of Backup
During the recent Comprehensive Database Performance Health Check, I was asked if there is any way to know compression ration of backup if we enable compressed backup settings in SQL Server. As you...
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SQL SERVER – What is the Meaning of PREEMPTIVE_HTTP_EVENT_WAIT? How to Fix it?
While playing with my SQL Server in Azure VM, I faced an interesting issue. I did some change in networking to avoid internet access by creating an outbound rule and then I started facing this issue....
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SQL SERVER – Small Backup for Large Database
Recently, I had a very interesting experience with one of my customer while working with them on Comprehensive Database Performance Health Check. The issue was related to small backup for the large...
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How to Shrink All the Log Files for SQL Server? – Interview Question of the...
Question: How to Shrink All the Log Files for SQL Server?Answer: This question was asked recently after reading my latest blog post here: SQL SERVER – Small Backup for Large Database. Before you...
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SQL SERVER – Cluster Install Failure – Code 0x84cf0003 – Updating Permission...
There are various issues which I have seen SQL installation and most of the time they are intuitive. The error message is mostly helpful and provides the right direction. In this blog we would discuss...
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SQL SERVER – New Parallel Operation Cannot be Started Due to Too Many...
One of my clients contacted me via my On Demand (50 Minutes) offering and they were seeing below error message in ERRORLOG – New parallel operation cannot be started due to too many parallel operations...
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SQL SERVER – FIX: 3637 – A Parallel Operation Cannot be Started From a DAC...
This was indeed one of an interesting error which I have never seen earlier and it is about DAC Connection. Here is the complete error message which my client reported. Msg 3637, Level 16, State 3,...
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SQL SERVER – Stretch Database – ERROR: The Provided Location is Not Available...
This was my first experiment with this feature called Stretch Database. I have started the wizard and encountered at the very end. Here is the error message. And here is the text of error message....
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Get-AzureStorageBlob: The Remote Server Returned an Error: (403) Forbidden....
I was working with one of my clients and they wanted to clean up old backup blobs from Azure. I have already blogged and shared my script. In this blog we would learn how to fix error: (403) Forbidden...
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