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Infrastructure: This has been run and tested successfully on SQL 2005 and onward.

Scenario: Parallel backup as the name itself suggest at a time multiple databases backup could be executed on SQL server. When we run the databases backup or configure databases backup to run through maintenance plan, its run sequentially i.e. one by one.

But assume you wanna run multiple databases backup parallel automatically with the help of scripts.  Parallel databases backup is possible manually but its tricky to run it automatically. So, here I will discuss about how to achieve this.

First of all, it is not recommended to run databases backup parallel as this costs IO but in some cases it is quite helpful.

This could be possible during low load.

Resolution:

This could be achieved with the help of Maintenance plan and SQL scripts which I have shared below.

Follow the steps to get this done.

1. Create a maintenance Plan and add t-SQL execute task from tool bar in design area with same level as below and put the code from here.
2. The no of t-sql execute task you added in design area, the no of databases will be running parallels from each task.
3. Example, assume you have total 10 user databases for which you looking for parallel DBs backup. Out of 10 DBs you can put 2 databases in first t-sql task and 2 in second t-sql task and 6 in 3rd t-sql task based on their sizes.
4. This way you can see 3 databases at time will be running parallel from each task. Hope this make sense.
5. You will have to put parallel DBs backup code in each t-sql task while keeping small changes as per requirement and above.
6. One more thing to notice, we should add (optional) wait For Delay clause from 2nd t-sql task till last t-sql task and keep delay by 2 mints at least just to avoid sudden load on IO due to running multiple Backups at a time.
7. Next you can add delete databases backup task and send db mail too.
8. Check SS below–>
9. Download delete databases backup script from here.

Hope this helps!

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Infrastructure: This has been run and tested successfully on SQL 2008 and onward.

Scenario:  Assume its exiting or new SQL server handed over to you and you have to implement low disk space alert on the email.

 

Resolution: 

Disk space monitoring and management is very important task as SQL databases are present on disks and in case of low disk space we may see downtime, backup failure etc

To avoid this bad happening, we need to monitor the disk utilization.

I have come up with one script which may help you in such scenario.

Please click here to download.

Hope this helps!

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Infrastructure: This has been run and tested successfully on SQL 2005 and onward.

Scenario:  In DBAs life, this is most important and weekly\daily kind of stuffs.

Due to highly uses, insert, update, delete command on databases, indexes got fragmented and high fragmentation results into worst database performance.

So being the DBA its our responsibility to find out fragmented indexes and rebuild them during maintenance window.

Please keep in mind, always perform these kind of stuffs on UAT and then move to Prod server.

In this case, rebuilding indexes with the help of cursor can be much handy.

 

Resolution: 

To know and understand about the indexes click here

Please click here to download rebuild heap tables script.

Hope this helps!

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Infrastructure: This has been run and tested successfully on SQL 2005 and onward.

Scenario:  There might be few cases where you as a DBA need to rebuild heap tables and assume you found out many fragmented heap tables in the databases (queries are available on google search) and you need to rebuild those.

In this case, rebuilding heap tables with the help of cursor can be much handy.

Resolution: 

To know and understand about the heap table click here

Please click here to download rebuild heap tables script.

Hope this helps!

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Infrastructure: This has been run and tested successfully on SQL 2005 and onward.

Scenario: Many DBAs create their own lab at home for learning and r&d purpose. lets say you also wanna do like this and wanna setup database mail for the SQL server to get-notification on some alerts on your home PC or laptop using your gmail or other mail service provider.

Resolution:

It is exactly similar to what you use to configure @ your client environments, the only difference is that you first need to know the SMTP server name and port no while setting up at your home PC or lapsql for respective provider like gmail, hotmail etc.

If you are not familiar with the database mail configure  please click here.

So I will explain and provide SMTP and port details which need to put while setting up DB mail on your personal PC

• Rest of setting you already know or can easily get from google on bit searching.
• On account setting, in Outgoing mail server (SMTP) enter your personal email add like gmail hotmail or rediffmail.
• Google SMTP server name is smtp.gmail.com with port no 587, put this in appropriate text box and use your credentials for the authentication.

Below is the few SMTP server details you can use it as per your need. If I missed something you can again get on google search.

SMTP Server Details
Hotmail        SMTP server name: smtp.live.com                    Port number:   587
Gmail           SMTP server name: smtp.gmail.com                  Port number:   587
Yahoo          SMTP server name: smtp.mail.yahoo.com          Port number :  25
AOL             SMTP server name: smtp.aol.com                    Port number :  587 REDIFFMAIL       SMTP Server name: smtp.rediffmailpro.com     Port number :  587

• So we are done with DB setting, now test the db mail.

Note: You may see authentication errors in DB mail logs even though you put correct password below is the reason and solutions for the same.

Gmail and rest of email service providers now days are more secure and have standard security policy so it may be possible while testing db mail on your IDs you may not receive the email as say for example Gmail security does not allow the less secure app to authenticate your account from less secure app like SSMS, mobile email etc.

So in this case, you will receive email if you are testing on gmail from google about this security breach they will give you Learn More option from where you can Turn ON allow secure app.

This way you will now start getting email from SSMS.

Hope this helps!

 

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Error: FullText Search Error 1075: The dependency service does not exist or
has been marked for deletion

Infrastructure: SQL server 2005 and onward

Scenario: While I was working on Migration project for one of my prime customer from SQL2005 32-bits to SQL2005 64bits few years ago, after SQL sever build I wanted to restore databases backup taken to the destination one by one.

but while doing so, I received an error FullText Search Error 1075: The dependency service does not exist or has been marked for deletion and this error led me not to restore databases backup.

then I checked the FullText service and tried to start it but could not cross the bridge.

 

Resolution:

I then went inside the event logs just to see if any other error details could be found and yeah, I was right I found more info which guided me to the corrective action.

that way I got to know Full text service was not running because it depended service RPCSS NTLMSSP was actually not available at all.

Follow the below steps in order to resolve this error.

1. Open the registry key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet
\Services\msftesql

2. Rename the value DependOnService to anything or make the entry blank but take the backup of registry while doing so.

3. Restart the server

Hope this helps!

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Error: The SQL server job is in suspended mode-Unable to start execution of step 1 (reason: The %s subsystem failed to load [see the SQLAGENT.OUT file for details]; The job has been suspended). The step failed.

Infrastructure: SQL server 2005 and onward

Scenario: While I was working on database migration project for one of the my client and since it was SQL2005 32bits to SQL 2005 64bits migration project, I had replaced msdb database from sql server2005(32-bits) to sql server2005(64-bits) msdb database backup. Since the installation directory had been changed while replacing resulted in old directory entry in table ‘msdb.dbo.syssubsystems’

Resolution:

1.First take the backup of msdb database of newly migrated sql server.

2. Delete the old entry which showing the old directory by running the t-sql command [DELETE FROM msdb.dbo.syssubsystems]

3. Fill the table with new rows pointing to the proper location of the DLLs by running  [EXEC msdb.dbo.sp_verify_subsystems 1]

For more info please visit MS official link for the same:- https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/914171/error-message-when-you-restore-or-attach-an-msdb-database-or-when-you

Hope this helps:)

 

 

 

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Error: Cannot open backup device. Operating system error 5(Access is denied.)

Infrastructure: SQL server 2000 and onward

Scenario: This is very famous  error which has been seen no of times in DBA life.

If you go on the error, it says there is some problems with backup device or permission issues and so on. You will get so many blogs and will find proper resolutions referring those blogs, so I am not going to write about that here.

I will simply talk about the scenario I had on my client environment.

Everything was correct  like  Backup command was right,backup media was rightly placed and had full permission and it was verified multiple times.

No problem with media was captured. all were seem to be good but though I was getting Cannot open backup device. Operating system error 5(Access is denied.)

And one thing was quite strange backup command was running fine in new query window in SSMS but it was throwing Cannot open backup device error while automating it through Maintenance Plan. No problem was detected in Maintenance Plan in-fact rest DBs backup were occurring fine.

Resolution:

Since there were no fault in Media, No permission issues, No syntax problems were found.

I run the backup script (GUI then script to new Window) for that particular database through SSMS and suddenly noticed an [EXTRA SPACE] in the end of database name in backup query.

That one extra space was the only culprit and the I checked the database name. I highlighted the DB name in Object explorer and found that DB name also had same extra space that the reason backup command also had same space.

I removed that extra space for that particular database and finally succeeded to take backup automatically.

Hope this helps!

 

 

 

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Error: Only a member of the sysadmin server role can add a job for a different owner with @owner_login_name

Infrastructure: SQL server 2005 and onward

Scenario: Here the scenario was, user with DB level access say database owner was trying to create sql job and wanted to change the owner to sa or some other sysadmin account.User also had role in MSDB role as of result she was able to see the jobs and create the jobs but unable to change its owner to sysadmin.

Please refer link for msdb agent role.

 

Resolution:

As per the error, only sysadmin can change the owner to sysadmin sql account or some other account. Once the jobs got created DBA can change the owner and issues disappear but generally application team like to manage their own application related group of jobs without depending on DBA everytime.

In such situation, either DBA needs to create proxy for them through which they can run the job under SQL security context or application team can also do hard-code inside their tsql code to EXECUTE AS.

but all the time EXECUTE AS the code dosent look flexibile and if its SSIS package that needs to run with help of SQL agent job in that case proxy is required.

Please note, t-sql can not be run through proxy account. So in this scenario, proxy can help them out.

Please follow this link to understand and implementing proxy account.

Hope this helps!

 

 

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Error: No global profile is configured. Specify a profile name in the @profile_name parameter

Infrastructure: SQL server 2005 and onward

Scenario: Here the scenario was, client was trying to run some stored procedure. In that stored procedure she was calling send_db_mail to send some query result output as attachment like some excel file but sp was breaking during DB mail shoot.

Resolution:

As per the error it tells us that there is no global profile defined and so we should specify a value for @profile_name but overall error was actually misleading. It was something to do with DB mail profile security.

Follow the below steps to check database public profile security:

1. Go to DB mail configuration wizard
2. Manage profile security
3.  Set public profile security to Yes and increase the MaxFileSize to its max value to allow sending big attachment (this can be set to max 2GB when your query output seems to be big in size)

To change database attachment size, refer below link.

https://www.mssqltips.com/sqlservertip/4599/sql-server-database-mail-attachment-error/

Hope this helps!!