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Tampering master.vmp file may result in losing all Analysis Services Databases:
The master.vmp file is the master version map that contains the GUIDS for all of the objects and the version of each object that currently exists on the server. When the server starts, it looks at the...
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Analysis Services Preallocate Memory Setting – Insight
Q: What is Preallocate Setting?Answers: Preaallocate Setting specifies a certain percentage of memory be allocated to Analysis Services when the service starts (memory preallocation). This...
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SQL Server Analysis Services Port (SQL 2005 / 2008)
Default Port:2383You can change default Port for AS in msmdsrv.ini file of the Instance. Port Used by SQL Server Browser Services for SSAS is 2382How to determine on which port AS is running?-Open Task...
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SQL 2005 (SQL 2008) Analysis Services Server Side Tracing
With Analysis Services 2005 (2008) you can collect traces without using gui this feature is known as Server Side Tracing. In this article we’ll talk about how to achieve Server Side Tracing. How to...
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Why do we need SPN for File Server (NAS / RAS / File Share System) DNS Alias...
Very often we use UNC location while taking backup of SQL or Analysis Services Database or try to upload data in SQL Tables using bulk load command where text or csv file located in File Server so we...
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SQL Server 2014 Setup Error: ‘BIDS’ is not a valid value for setting ‘FEATURES’
SQL Server Data Tools (a.k.a. SSDT) used to part of product installation media in SQL Server 2012. We can install it by selecting "SQL Server Data Tools" from shared features section. Alternately we...
View ArticleMerge Replication: Expired Subscription Clean Up Job /...
Issue: If you have a Merge Replication, you may encounter the below error message thrown by Expired Subscription Cleanup job (sp_expired_subscription_cleanup) with a mention of conflict table of an...
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Script level upgrade for master database failed
In this post I would like to explain one of the interesting issues that I encountered while upgrading a SQL Server Instance. Symptoms · SQL Server instance is upgraded using a service pack or any...
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Capture successful logins: You may see many entries(high volume) when you...
When you are auditing successful logins attempts using SUCCESSFUL_LOGIN_GROUP action group through SQL Audit, you will see that there will be too many entries in the audit file. You may see this...
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Common issues faced while configuring AlwaysOn listener on Azure VM cluster
We have MSDN article [Tutorial: Listener Configuration for AlwaysOn Availability Groups (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn425027.aspx) which provides detailed steps to configure AlwaysOn...
View ArticleSnapshot 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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