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SQLAuthority News – Microsoft Whitepaper – AlwaysOn Solution Guide: Offloading Read-Only Workloads to Secondary Replicas

Pinal Dave
SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks
AlwaysOn, SQL Backup and Restore
SQL Server 2012 has many interesting features but the most talked feature is AlwaysOn. Performance tuning is always a hot topic. I see lots of need of the same and lots of business around it. However, many times when people talk about performance tuning they think of it as a…
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SQL SERVER – FIX – ERROR : Msg 3201, Level 16 Cannot open backup device.Operating system error 3 (The system cannot find the path specified.)

Pinal Dave
SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks
SQL Backup and Restore, SQL Error Messages, SQL Server Management Studio
I had very interesting and frustrating experience. Recently I was attempting to backup one of my database and I end up on following error. Msg 3201, Level 16, State 1, Line 1 Cannot open backup device ‘D:\Backup\SQLAuthority.bak’. Operating system error 3(The system cannot find the path specified.). Msg 3013, Level…
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