SSMS 2014 > Registered Servers > Evaluate Policies Error
Hi When I try to select Evaluate Policies on a registered server, I get the following error. =================================== Value cannot be null. Parameter name: source (System.Core)...
View ArticleSharePoint content database with 98% free space will not shrink
I have a production SharePoint 2013 database. It was migrated from SharePoint 2010 and thus has a large amount (98%) of free space. It is appropriate after migration from one version of SharePoint to...
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Restore mode
After taking transnational log backup database mode become "Restoreing ...." as below what to do ?
View ArticleBackup of SQL database fails with error 15105
Hi everyone, Not sure if this case belongs to the right topic, but if so - pls move it to the right place :). However, I'm running SQL 2008 R2 (with MS DPM 2012) and suddenly I have started getting an...
View ArticleSQL Server severity alert 20
Hi..SQL Server severity alert 20:I received this type of alert while security center software scanning in Live database server.DESCRIPTION: Length specified in network packet payload did not match...
View Articlehide databases
Hello, A common asked question is how to hide database in SQL Management studio to users who don't have access. The suggested solution is to DENY VIEW ANY DATABASE TO Public and make the user DB owner...
View ArticleSQL Sever Solutions Explorer
Current version......... SQL Server 2008 R2......... but, the problems/request applies to later versions as well.This is a request to the MS Sql Server team.I work a service desk to assist...
View ArticleManaging SQL objects when User PIN is removed - The job failed. The owner ()...
Hi, We have lost a sysadmin and his PIN has been removed from Active Directory. This apparently has removed his PIN from database owner and agent jobs and left that property blank. I know user PINs...
View ArticleManagement Studio Problem: Table Relationship Builder Greys Out Foreign...
In the table designer, suddenly my Relationship user interface is greying out the foreign key table selection on all tables when I go to add or edit a relationship, including the ones with exiting...
View ArticleDrive Space Warning and mysterious vanishing disk space
I have SQL 2012 running on a Hyper VM box (also Server 2012). I'm getting low space warnings on the server (3 GB remaining of 120 GB total).From Windows Explorer, the only drive that is even close to...
View Articlecopying SQL 2012 databases onto new SQL 2014
Hi,I have a Live SQL using SQL 2012/SP2, and have backed up all 10+ databases. I also have a Test SQL 2014. I would like to restore these 2012 backups onto SQL 2014, but straight restore did not work....
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Restoring of TLog fails in DR site
We have an Azure setup with two VM’s running SQL Server 2014. The servers are placed in defferent domains with one server in West Europe (Master) and the other in North Europe (DR). On the master we...
View ArticleHow to get the data back
Hello,Right now, we're facing a big problem with one MS SQL database was deleted and unfortunately been restored with wrong timeline backup file. We don't have recent backup file and we are trying to...
View ArticleReindexing failed
Update stats and reindexing job was running fine for more than 3 months, but once after a cluster failover and fail back it started failing with below error, jobs are creted using maintenance plan...
View ArticleHow many SQL server instances are required If size of database increasing...
Hi Sir, How many virtual SQL server's instance would require to make it happen. can Azure SQL be used to get it done ?
View ArticleHow to explore the log file.
Hi all,The log file is growing crazy. I checked the DB size:--MyDB log_mb:14572.25 rows_mb:788.25 size_mb:15360.50Check the log with:SELECT log_reuse_wait_desc,*FROM SYS.DATABASESFound option...
View ArticleA network-related or instance-specific error occurred while establishing a...
The remote computer refused the network connection... I'm getting this error message which probably is very generic and I apologize for that however, not sure how to resolve this issue... So far I'm...
View Articlecan't reduce the primary data file after moving data out to secondary data...
Hi,I have used table partitioning to split the data from primary data file into multiple data files for easy manageability but i am not able to shrink the primary data file after moving the data out to...
View ArticlePatching number of SQL Servers instances across different servers in one go
Dear Experts,Is there a easy way by which we could patch all the SQL servers in one go instead of doing it manually one by one. I know, we shouldn't do like this in production. But we could take this...
View ArticleTruncation of Transaction Log
Hi Experts,Need to understand a concept,My databases are on Full recovery mode. We are taking full backup of databases every night.Now as I understood, I should be taking backups of transaction log...
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