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Introduction Installing lower version SQL Server on a higher version of Windows Server may be problematic at times of installation. Recently we have faced such a scenario. We are sharing installation steps to overcome the problem. At the initial phase…
Problem When your application uses the distribution transaction then you may encounter below error. Error: The operation could not be performed because OLE DB provider “SQLNCLI11” for linked server “Linked_Server_Name” was unable to begin a distribution transaction. [SQLSTATE 42000] (Error…
Introduction We can rename a user-defined database in SQL Server by using SQL Server Management Studio or Transact-SQL. System databases cannot be renamed. The database name cannot be changed while it is online and other users are accessing the database.…
Scenario We recently came across a situation where one of the drives in the production server is almost full. There are two large databases and they were not backed up. No backup job or no maintenance plans were in place.…
Introduction Find the database file growth for all the databases. It is not a good practice to keep your database file growth limited. In that case, you may get an error like “The Transaction log for database XXXXX is full.…
Introduction There are two types of database-level roles: Fixed-database roles db_accessadmin Granted: ALTER ANY USER, CREATE SCHEMA,Granted with Grant option – Connect By SSMS By TSQL USE [Our_Tech_Ideas] — Database name GO ALTER ROLE [db_accessadmin] ADD MEMBER [login01] — Database…
Introduction: Sometimes your query gives you very bad performance because of statistics as SQL database engine Query optimizer uses statistics to create query plans. Updated statistics will give you good performance. To get the statistics information for a particular database,…
Introduction Here we will discuss different backup strategies and methodologies used to take the table backup in SQL Server with real-life examples. There are different methods of taking backup in SQL server. Type 1: Taking Backup of the table using…
Introduction In this post, we will try to show step by step Microsoft SQL Server 2016 installation on Windows Server 2012R2. Microsoft SQL Server 2017 is the latest stable version of SQL Server now. Latest Cumulative Update Package 9 for…
Introduction Backing up a database is one of the most important things you need to do when having a database depended application. It’s only all of your data in there, right? But often developers and management don’t realize the importance…