This blog post will show how to dynamically add logic at the beginning of jobs in Availability Groups in order to avoid job execution errors in the replica or replicas. Problem In SQL Availability Groups the SQL jobs have to…
Read More >Method – Job Category This blog post will show how to setup SQL Jobs in multiple availability groups. This method will allow you to dynamically detect the role of the SQL Server replica and avoid job execution errors in the…
Read More >In the past, we could run the SQL installer to do an in-place upgrade of SQL server including the SSRS instance to a newer version. As of 2017, SSRS is a separate install from SQL server, so this is no…
Read More >We recently ran into an interesting issue on a three-node SQL Server Availability Group (AG) cluster. There was a cluster failure that impacted the availability group for a few minutes during which the replicas changed to resolving state. Once the…
Read More >Problem: You are trying to add a new subscriber to a SQL Server Publication using the SQL Server Management Studio and you receive an error similar to the one below: “The selected Subscriber does not satisfy the minimum version compatibility…
Read More >Last May, the Microsoft Build 2019 conference took place in Seattle. A number of new features and capabilities were announced and demonstrated. This week, communities in the Asia Pacific held their own version of Build, bringing the best and the…
Read More >Problem: You created a linked server on SQL Server to a PostgreSQL database. You can open and navigate the linked server on SSMS up to listing the tables, but can not perform select to certain tables, returning the below errors:…
Read More >Problem: You are trying to take a native SQL Backup to URL and you receive the error below: Msg 3271, Level 16, State 1, Line 1 A nonrecoverable I/O error occurred on file “https://MyStorageAccount.file.core.windows.net/MyContainer/Adventureworks_full_20190420.bak:” Backup to URL received an exception…
Read More >Problem: You run an SQL backup to URL and get the following error: Msg 3201, Level 16, State 1, Line 1 Cannot open backup device ‘https://<mystorageaccountname>.blob.core.windows.net/<mycontainername>/AdventureWorks_full_20190420.bak’. Operating system error 50(The request is not supported.). Msg 3013, Level 16, State 1,…
Read More >Problem: You are deploying a SQL Server Integration Services Package to the SSIS Catalog and keeps on failing with the following error: The error is succinct and direct to the point: “Please create a master key in the database or…
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