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SQL Server Maintenance Techniques

SQL Server Maintenance Techniques: A Comprehensive Guide to Keeping Your Server Running Smoothly

October 6, 2023
Pinal Dave
SQL Tips and Tricks
Hardware, Maintenance Plan, SQL Audit, SQL Backup and Restore, SQL Error Messages, SQL Index, SQL Log, SQL Server Security, SQL Statistics, SQL Upgrade, Testing

This comprehensive guide explore into some essential maintenance techniques and best practices to ensure your SQL Server deployment.

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certificateoftrust

SQL SERVER – Fix – Error – The certificate chain was issued by an authority that is not trusted

September 1, 2023
Pinal Dave
SQL Tips and Tricks
SQL Connection, SQL Error Messages, SQL Server Security

ASP.NET Core applications can sometimes result in the error “The certificate chain was issued by an authority that is not trusted.”

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detecting deadlocks

Detecting Deadlocks in SQL Server Using Trace Flags 1204 and 1222

June 20, 2023
Pinal Dave
SQL Tips and Tricks
Deadlock, SQL Error Messages, TraceFlags

Well, let us discuss Detecting Deadlocks in SQL Server Using Trace Flags 1204 and 1222. T-SQL for enabling, disabling, and checking the status of these trace flags.

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A hand picking a small stone out of a tray of raw rice, the empty cooking pot waiting beside it.

Data Quality Asserts in T-SQL: Failing a Load When Rules Break

May 4, 2023
Pinal Dave
SQL Tips and Tricks
ETL, SQL Error Messages, SQL Server, SQL Transactions

Write data quality asserts in T-SQL to reject invalid staging rows, preserve check results, and record each load attempt.

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A market square water pump pouring into a bucket with a smaller bucket nested inside it, water spilling over.

INSERT EXEC: Capturing a Procedure’s Result Set and Its Limits

November 24, 2022
Pinal Dave
SQL Tips and Tricks
SQL Error Messages, SQL Server, SQL Stored Procedure, Temp Table

Capture rows with INSERT EXEC, match result columns, understand nested and multiple-result limits, and choose supported alternatives.

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TempDB error: create file encountered operating system error 3.

SQL SERVER – TempDB Error: CREATE FILE encountered operating system error 3

January 27, 2022
Pinal Dave
SQL Tips and Tricks
SQL Error Messages, SQL Server, SQL TempDB

Let us fix error TempDB error: CREATE FILE encountered operating system error 3 (The system cannot find the path specified.)

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errorfix

SQL SERVER – Fix Error – Cannot execute as the database principal because the principal “dbo” does not exist

October 21, 2021
Pinal Dave
SQL Tips and Tricks
SQL Error Messages, SQL Login, SQL Scripts, SQL Server, SQL Server Security

One of my clients recently sent me an email with the following error. The error was visible in the error log and was about the database principal. 

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