Snapshot agent fails with Error: 241, Severity: 16, State: 1 (Conversion...
ISSUE Let’s say you are monitoring Replication Agent status and noticed that the Snapshot Agent has failed with the following error while generating a snapshot, particularly during creation of BCP...
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How to find which user deleted the user database in SQL Server
In one of the recent scenarios we noticed that a user database was deleted and customer wanted to which user has dropped the database. We know that multiple user had full access on that database. In...
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Error configuring distribution- "Publishing and distribution are supported...
I recently installed an instance of SQL Server 2016 on one of my server. Later when I tried to configure the new instance as Distributor I faced the below error: Error: —————————— TITLE: Configure...
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Setting up Service Broker where the initiator database is part of the AG
There have been several posts on setting up Service Broker where the database is part of the Availability Group. This is a one stop blog for setting up Service Broker where the initiator database is...
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SQL Server Service fails to start after applying patch. Error: CREATE SCHEMA...
In this post we would like to explain one of the interesting issues that we encountered while upgrading a SQL Server Instance. Symptoms SQL Server Service fails to start after applying SQL patch due to...
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Creating and Registering SSL Certificates
A few days back, I was working with one of our partners who had a requirement of creating a SSL self-signed certificate through MMC console. As we are already aware that it is a complex and a tedious...
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Troubleshooting SSL on SQL Server Issue – AT_KEYEXCHANGE is not set
It is one of the pre-requisites for the KEY-SPEC value of the SSL self-signed certificate to be set to 1, for it to be loaded to the SQL server. Due to the glitches during the creation of the...
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Error: Could not deploy package. Unable to connect to target server.
In this post we would like to explain one of the interesting issue that we encountered while deploying a DACPAC from sqlpackage.exe. Symptoms Cannot Deploy DACPAC Extracted from SQL 2012 Server from...
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Automated backups configuration fails when configured from Azure portal
In this post, we would like to explain one of the interesting issues that we encountered while using the automated backup feature for a VM from the azure portal (We can find the option once we click on...
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Automate SQL server backup file removal/deletion from Azure blob storage
In this post, we would like to explain one of the interesting issues that we encountered while working with azure backups and restore. Symptoms Cannot delete the .bak files from azure blob storage...
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