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SQL SERVER – Error: 9642 – An error occurred in a Service Broker/Database...
During my consultancy engagement, my client’s DBA team was checked ERRORLOG and asked me the possible cause of below error about service broker.DateTime spid74s Error: 9642, Severity: 16, State:...
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SQL SERVER – FIX: Msg 4353 – Conflicting File Relocations Have Been Specified...
This was one of an interesting error which I received while preparing for a demo. I wanted to demonstrate a disaster recovery scenario by doing backup and restore. In this blog we would learn how to...
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SQL SERVER – Different Size of COPY_ONLY Full Backup on Primary and Secondary...
While preparing for a disaster recovery demo for my client, I observed an interesting behavior. In this blog, I would show a quick demo where you can learn how the full backup size can be different on...
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SQL SERVER – Add Database to Availability Group Failure – This BACKUP or...
I always recommend my client to go with the latest and great version of tools like SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS). In this blog, we would learn about a situation where an older version of SSMS was...
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SQL SERVER – What is Wait Type Parallel Backup Queue?
Recently one of my blog readers contacted me and ask if I knew about wait type parallel_backup_queue. I have often got the same question during the Comprehensive Database Performance Health Check. My...
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SQL SERVER – Error 35296: Log Backup for Database “SQLAuthority” on Secondary...
One of my clients contacted me for whom I assisted in configuring Always On Availability Groups for the first time. They were getting an error whole taking log backup on secondary replica: Log backup...
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How to Forecast the Size of Restore of Backup in SQL Server? – Interview...
Question: How to Forecast the Size of Restore of Backup in SQL Server?Answer: Recently, I had discussed this in consulting engagement: Comprehensive Database Performance Health Check. We had a very...
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SQL SERVER – What do These Messages Mean –“I/O is Frozen on Database” and...
One of my clients contacted me and asked me the reason for this message? And my first reaction was, did you keep the database in very cold weather? It might be freezing over there and that’s why SQL is...
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SQL SERVER – Impact of Recovery Model on Insert Workload Stress Test and Wait...
Every single day, when I write blog posts, I am not sure what I will write tomorrow but I must express my gratitude to all of you, who keep on asking questions new interesting questions which made me...
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How to Know Backup Speed in SQL Server? – Interview Question of the Week #277
Question: How to Know Backup Speed in SQL Server?Answer: It is very simple to know the backup speed in SQL Server.You can get the answer to this question with the help of SQL Server Management Studio....
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SQL SERVER – Restore Database With Just Log File
Restoring the database with Just Log File is not possible. If you are looking for the answer to this question, you have bad news. I am writing this blog post for a simple reason, when I get an email...
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What does Verify Backup When Finished do in SQL Server? – Interview Question...
Question: What does Verify Backup When Finished do in SQL Server?Answer: It will check up if the backup media is in the place and also checked the header information to make sure that it looks like the...
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Undo Human Errors in SQL Server – SQL in Sixty Seconds #109 – Point in Time...
In this blog post, we are going to talk about how to undo human errors in SQL Server with the help of Point in Time Recovery. Let me start asking some questions –Have you ever dropped your table by...
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SQL SERVER – Running Log Backup While Taking Full Backup
Recently, I got a very interesting question from my client of the Comprehensive Database Performance Health Check. As many of you know that I primarily focus on the SQL Server Performance issue. If...
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SQL SERVER – Simple Recovery Model and Restrictions
Most of the time during the Comprehensive Database Performance Health Check, I focus on SQL Server Performance Tuning. However, often the client also asks for help when they have a question about SQL...
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SQL SERVER – Attach a Database with T-SQL
Yesterday one of my clients of Comprehensive Database Performance Health Check reached out to me asking for help in attaching the database files to the server. Let us see today we can attach a database...
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SQL SERVER – Attach an In-Memory Database with T-SQL
Earlier I wrote a blog post about SQL SERVER – Attach a Database with T-SQL. Right after reading this blog post, my client of Comprehensive Database Performance Health Check sent me an email asking if...
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SQL SERVER – Check Backup Reliability
Recently I was asked by one of my clients of Comprehensive Database Performance Health Check recently asked if there is any way to Check Backup Reliability. Well, honestly, yes there is a way and that...
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SQL SERVER – Creating Multiple Backup Files – Stripped
One of my long-term clients (Comprehensive Database Performance Health Check) recently asked me question if I know a way of creating multiple backup files for one backup files. Of course, there is a...
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Multiple Backup Copies Stripped – SQL in Sixty Seconds #156
Yesterday I blogged about SQL SERVER – Creating Multiple Backup Copies. I got an amazing response to the blog post. Lots of people wanted me to create a video about it. I can totally understand the...
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