• DBA

    No sysadmin access Microsoft SQL server error 18461

    Login failed for user reason single user mode only one administrator can connect at this time Microsoft SQL server error 18461   You might get a situation that no sysadmin access to SQL server and server installed by someone. Breaking SQL server and adding SA sysadmin of yourself by SQLCMD. You should be OS administrator.   First find out ‘Binn’ folder where it is installed C or D drive. Better search in my computer. Open a CMD with administrator Type: cd /d E:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\130\Tools\Binn (OR) 1.Stop the SQL server service 2.Start the service in Single user mode by adding ‘;-mSQLCMD’ to the parameters from SQL server configuration manager…

  • DBA

    The Cluster service failed to bring clustered service or application completely online or offline. One or more resources may be in a failed state.

    Recently, one of alwaysON cluster had issue, cause of file share witness box down and we brought up the box online.   Errors: The Cluster service failed to bring clustered service or application completely online or offline. One or more resources may be in a failed state. This may impact the availability of the clustered service or application. Cluster resource ‘File Share Witness’ of type ‘File Share Witness’ in clustered role ‘Cluster Group’ failed Based on the failure policies for the resource and role, the cluster service may try to bring the resource online on this node or move the group to another node of the cluster and then restart…

  • AlwaysON,  DBA

    Multi subnet sql alwayon cluster not connecting to sql database when application or alwayon failover

    Multi subnet SQL alwayon cluster not connecting to SQL database when application server restarts or alwayon failover. In multi subnet we will have more than two ips, the active IP will be online and other ips will be offline. https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/SQL-Server-Support/Connection-Timeouts-in-Multi-subnet-Availability-Group/ba-p/318334 This Microsoft link will have more information. I just used this to give a workaround for one of our application. The application has MultiSubnetFailover=True. Open powershell as administrator. Run the following and pass the resource name. Get the resource name, it could be AG group name_Listener name – Get-ClusterResource Check the ‘RegisterAllProvidersIP’ value, if it is 1 change to 0 Get-ClusterResource “Cluster Resource Name” | Get-ClusterParameter   Change the ‘RegisterAllProvidersIP’…

  • DBA

    upgrade for database master failed because upgrade step  sqlagent100_msdb_upgrade.sql encountered error 200, state 7, severity 25.

    SQL upgrade from SQL Server 2008 R2 SP3 32 bit to SQL Server 2012 SQL upgrade from 2008 R2 to 2012 Script level upgrade for database ‘master’ failed because upgrade step ‘sqlagent100_msdb_upgrade.sql’ encountered error 200, state 7, severity 25. This is a serious error condition which  might interfere with regular operation and the database will be taken offline. If the error happened during upgrade of the ‘master’ database,  it will prevent the entire SQL Server instance from starting. Examine the previous errorlog entries for errors, take the appropriate corrective  actions and re-start the database so that the script upgrade steps run to completion.   2019-07-30 17:26:10.38 spid8s      Error:…

  • AutoMon,  DBA

    DBA AutoMon configure Database Centralized management server CMS

    Setup Database Centralized management server CMS DBA AutoMon This is a series of post which will have lot of posts and scripts, which will help DBAs to do proactive work – consolidation and quickly understand the environments. Some background and thanks to my senior DBA Roshan Joe Joseph, we have started together this automation and scripts in year 2008, when we don’t have much tools and where the client could not invest money to buy a tool. We started the DBA AutoMon and planned to build a front end GUI, we could not finish that due to family, personal life and different company career. In most of the service based…