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Driver could not establish a secure connection to SQL Server

17 November 2022 By OTI Leave a comment

Driver could not establish a secure connection to SQL Server Recently windows patching was done on a server and also SQL server security got update with the same patch. Later were getting the below error while connecting to SQL Server…

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Migrating SQL Server Database Mail Settings

16 November 2022 By OTI Leave a comment

Migrating SQL Server Database Mail Settings Migrating SQL Server Database Mail profiles, accounts and settings can be a complex and time-consuming process. This article will provide an overview of what SQL Server Database Mail is, how to migrate SQL Server…

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Checking SQL Server Job History by Script

7 November 2022 By OTI Leave a comment

Mainly msdb.dbo.sysjobs and msdb.dbo.sysjobhistory contains all major information regarding the SQL Server job and its running status and history. We may directly query both objects and get the details or we may use SSMS and view SQL Server Job History.…

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Checking Compatibility Level Of All Databases In SQL Server

28 October 2022 By OTI Leave a comment

SQL Server is a relational database management system (RDBMS) developed by Microsoft. It is a server-based system that can be accessed by multiple users simultaneously. It offers many features, including data security, scalability, and high performance. One important feature of…

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Identify and Store Long Running Queries

Find active transactions by duration

15 July 2022 By OTI Leave a comment

Recently frequently we faced blocking issues on our production server. The main reason that I understand, recently we merged a few SQL servers and migrated all databases to a single server. Few databases are shared database which is used by…

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Certificate chain issued by authority that is not trusted

21 June 2022 By OTI Leave a comment

Certificate chain issued by authority that is not trusted Recently we moved whole on-premises resources to the cloud. In an easy word, we have moved SQL Server from on-premises to Azure cloud as IaaS. Now few users ran into this…

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Check the Status of EMail Messages Sent With Database Mail

13 June 2022 By OTI 1 Comment

In SQL Server sp_send_dbmail use to send emails and the SQL Server log all the status of each message processed by Database Mail. Below is the quick list of Database Mail Views you can query to find the status of…

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Monitoring Database Backups Details using T-SQL SELECT Statement

27 May 2022 By OTI Leave a comment

Introduction As a database administrator, one of the crucial tasks is to ensure regular backups of databases. Monitoring the Database Backups Details including backup status and locations of different types of backups can be challenging in a large SQL Server…

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Database stuck in Mirroring, Disconnected / In Recovery

23 November 2021 By OTI 2 Comments

Mirror database stuck in the state of  ‘Mirroring, Disconnected / In Recovery’ We have an interesting situation after configuring a mirror setup. We have configured mirroring between a list of databases between two physical SQL Server. It was working great…

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Change Default TCP Port in SQL Server

22 September 2021 By OTI Leave a comment

Change Default TCP Port in SQL Server When any version or edition of MSSQL Server is installed, by default it’s installed on default port 1433. By default, we need to access SQL Server by use port 1433 while communicating with…

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