belle's sql musings » Issues/Troubleshooting

Getting More Information About Your PowerShell Error

belle — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 20:34:14 +0000

I just have to blog this little gem. Every now and then I would be running a PowerShell script, I’d get an error but I wouldn’t get anything useful from the default error message besides the line number. Little Gem cls $error[0] | fl -force Sample For example, this is an error I would get [...]

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Installing SQL Server Denali CTP3 Weird Issue – Invalid Handle

belle — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 21:44:46 +0000

I was busily preparing my new VMs all night (shiny new VMs!!). Planning to get 2 Windows 2008 R2 Enterprise boxes out as my new playgrounds, one as a Domain Controller, another one as my new Denali CTP3 box. When I was starting to install Denali, not long after launching the install, I got this [...]

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Troubleshooting Replication Error: A required privilege is not held by the client

belle — Mon, 25 Apr 2011 21:35:41 +0000

Troubleshooting Replication Error: A required privilege is not held by the client If you ever you encounter this replication issue, the resolution might be fairly simple, however it will require that you toggle your SQL Service accounts. Have a look at this KB: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/911305/en-us The KB suggests the service account might have changed using a [...]

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Invalid Credentials Error During SQL Server 2008/R2 Install

belle — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 14:07:33 +0000

In case you get the following errors: The credentials you provided for the SQL Server Agent service are invalid. To continue, provide a valid account and password for the SQL Server Agent service. The specified credentials for the SQL Server service are not valid. To continue, provide a valid account and password for the SQL [...]

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Handling Division By Zero Scenarios in T-SQL

belle — Sat, 09 May 2009 18:45:04 +0000

Sometimes it is inevitable to encounter scenarios that will give division by zero errors What you can do is you can code around it, so your users and your app do not get this error. Alternative 1: NULLIF (preferred) The NULLIF built in function returns a NULL if the two parameters are equal. In our [...]

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A More Effective Selective Index Rebuild/Reorganize Strategy

belle — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 20:15:15 +0000

This is a follow up post to : Why SQL Fragmentation Remains High As mentioned in this previous post, our dilemma was we were rebuilding every index on a nightly basis, and : the process proves to be very resource intensive we don’t see the benefit. The fragmentation for some of the indexes remain high. [...]

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Resolving “A network-related or instance-specific error occurred while establishing a connection to SQL Server…”

belle — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 06:34:10 +0000

SQL Server 2005 Error: “A network-related or instance-specific error occurred while establishing a connection to SQL Server. The server was not found or was not accessible. Verify that the instance name is correct and that SQL Server is configured to allow remote connections. (provider: SQL Network Interfaces, error: 26 – Error Locating Server/Instance Specified) ” [...]

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Connection to target machine could not be made in a timely fashion

belle — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 08:28:00 +0000

Problem Actually the error is (note spelling mistake on fashion): "Connection to target machine could not be made in a timely fasion" Scenario One of our DBAs was testing the SQL cluster failover. After he failed over from Node 1 to Node 2, he can no longer bring up SQL Server Configuration Manager (SSCM). Whenever [...]

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