Dear friends,

I have the following error when I want to test my linked server:
Cannot create an instance of OLE DB provider "OraOLEDB.Oracle" for linked server (Error Number: 7302).

I followed the instructions posted on this URL:
https://www.mssqltips.com/sqlservertip/4396/creating-a-sql-server-2014-linked-server-for-an-oracle-11g-database/

My situation
2 W2012R2 servers, 1 with SQL2016dev and 1 with Ora11g as mentioned on the URL.
On the SQL server I installed as well the ODAC122010 x64. So the provider OraOLEDB.Oracle came available.
Both servers are not part of any domain, they both live in the WORKGROUP.

After creating the linked server I get the mentioned error.
I just want to connect via SSMS.
I searched for a solution, but did not find one.
So I was wondering if somebody can help me?

Thanks in advance
Marco

Unable to start SQL Agent SQL Server 2008 R2 RTM OS: Windows 2008 R2

Agent Log

2012-04-17 22:17:22 - ! [298] SQLServer Error: 27, Registry information is corrupt or missing. Make sure the provider installed and registered correctly. [SQLSTATE 08001]
2012-04-17 22:17:22 - ! [298] SQLServer Error: 27, Client unable to establish connection [SQLSTATE 08001]
2012-04-17 22:17:22 - ! [165] ODBC Error: 0, A network-related or instance-specific error has occurred while establishing a connection to SQL Server. Server is not found or not accessible. Check if instance name is correct and if SQL Server is configured to allow remote connections. For more information see SQL Server Books Online. [SQLSTATE 08001]
2012-04-17 22:17:22 - ! [000] Unable to connect to server '(local)'; SQLServerAgent cannot start
2012-04-17 22:17:22 - ! [298] SQLServer Error: 27, Registry information is corrupt or missing. Make sure the provider installed and registered correctly. [SQLSTATE 08001]
2012-04-17 22:17:22 - ! [298] SQLServer Error: 27, Client unable to establish connection [SQLSTATE 08001]
2012-04-17 22:17:22 - ! [165] ODBC Error: 0, A network-related or instance-specific error has occurred while establishing a connection to SQL Server. Server is not found or not accessible. Check if instance name is correct and if SQL Server is configured to allow remote connections. For more information see SQL Server Books Online. [SQLSTATE 08001]
2012-04-17 22:17:22 - ! [382] Logon to server '(local)' failed (DisableAgentXPs)
2012-04-17 22:17:23 - ? [098] SQLServerAgent terminated (normally)

EventLog:

SQLServerAgent could not be started (reason: Unable to connect to server '<ServerNAme>'; SQLServerAgent cannot start).

TITLE: Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio
------------------------------

Unable to start service SQLSERVERAGENT on server <Server Name>. (mscorlib)

------------------------------
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:

The SQLSERVERAGENT service on <Server Name> started and then stopped. (ObjectExplorer)

------------------------------
BUTTONS:

OK
------------------------------

Uninstalled couple of times and Reinstall still getting the same Error and also tried below workarounds:

sp_configure 'show advanced options', 1;  
GO  
RECONFIGURE;  
GO  
sp_configure 'Agent XPs', 1;  
GO  
RECONFIGURE  
GO

[HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL10_50.MSSQLSERVER\SQLServerAgent] PATH is Correct

Can you please share with you if have any fix for this issue.

Note: Services are running under service account [Domain Account] and also has SA privilage.

Thanks

Nag

Nag Pal MCTS/MCITP (SQL Server 2005/2008) :: Please Mark Answer/vote if it is helpful ::

Hi,

We are trying to get the value from DB2 database table via Linked Server in SQL server 2016. The DB2 table has one column with the data type of "Packed Decimal in the Length of 11 & Precision of 5".  when I query this column in SQL server, I'm getting only the decimal value and not getting any precision value. For eg. In DB2 the actual value is "5.67234" where as in SQL Server giving the column value as "5.0".

How do I get the actual value (via linked servers)which is exactly available in DB2 from SQL Server 2016?

Hi All,

For some of spids, I am seeing hostname and program_name as blanks. But, I am seeing sql text, login name etc...
Why is it so? any thoughts why sql server is not showing hostname and program names?


--sleeping spids with hostname and program name is showing blank
select s.spid,s.[status],s.blocked,db_name(s.dbid) as dbname,s.open_tran,s.hostname,s.[program_name],s.cmd,s.loginame,s.nt_domain,s.nt_username,s.login_time,
LEFT([sql].[text], 1000) as [text]
 from sys.sysprocesses s
OUTER APPLY sys.dm_exec_sql_text (s.sql_handle) as [sql]
where s.[status] = 'sleeping'
and (s.hostname='' and s.[program_name]='')

Thanks,
Sam

Trying to import data from Excel is giving this message.

Office365 64-bit

Here's what I tried:

1) I installed the 64-bit Access database engine 2016

2) I tried the 2010 & 2007 versions as well

3) I reinstalled Office365

I'm out of ideas. What else could be going on here?

hello, I am wondering if there is any issues to download and install the SQLserver smoExtended version 10 (2008) assembly by installing the sql native client 2008 or from feature pack on a sql2016 server?

my vendor has an application requires the 2008 smo assembly.

how to segregate this blocking, 

is  sp_getapplock & sp_releaseapplock  helps? 

SPID  106 blocks 107
SPID  106 blocks 196
SPID  107 blocks 196

< SPID  -- 107

update i set 
last_posted_price = t.price,
last_posted_map = t.map,
last_posted_price_feedid = t.feed,
last_posted_price_ts = getdate()
from marketplace_items i join #tmp t on t.id = i.id
--?>

-------------------

< SPID -- 196
update marketplace_items set item_verification_status = @status,item_verification_status_reason = @status_reason
where id = @recordid
--?>

------------------------

< SPID  --  106
with e as (
select *,row_number()over(partition by sku order by sku) row from #tmp
), f as (
select * from e where row = 1
)
merge into marketplace_items as target
using f as source on source.sku =target.sku and target.marketplace_id =6 
when matched then
update set 
confirmed=getdate(),
confirmed_price=case when isnumeric(source.price)= 1 and source.price not like '%[a-z]%' then source.price end,
confirmed_status=left(source.[PUBLISH STATUS],500),
confirmed_status_reason =left(source.[STATUS CHANGE REASON],1000),
confirmed_category = left(source.[PRODUCT CATEGORY],500),


confirmed_qty=case when isnumeric(source.[INVENTORY COUNT]) =1 then source.[INVENTORY COUNT] end,
confirmed_ref_code=left(source.WPID,500),
confirmed_ref_number=source.[ITEM ID],
confirmed_upc=source.UPC,
confirmed_shelf=left(source.[SHELF NAME],500),
confirmed_shelf_path=left(source.[PRIMARY CAT PATH],500),
confirmed_reviews=case when isnumeric(source.[REVIEWS COUNT]) =1 then source.[REVIEWS COUNT]  end,
confirmed_rating=case when isnumeric(source.[AVERAGE RATING]) =1 then cast(source.[AVERAGE RATING] as money) end,
confirmed_searchable=left(source.[SEARCHABLE?],500),

status= left(source.[LIFECYCLE STATUS],500),
response_message=left(source.[STATUS CHANGE REASON],500);
--?>

We have started seeing an issue over the last two weeks where our CPU jumps and causes us to clear the cache for one of our databases on a HA cluster. The server this is occurring on is a read-only node and see a lot of activity (2k batches/sec). Some of our procedures are called 8k - 10k times per minute.

About 10 minutes before the CPU spikes and causes an automated system to kick in that will free the cache in one of the databases, we start seeing two weird things:

1 - Our stored procedures start falling out of the cache when looking at sys.dm_exec_procedure_stats.

2 - We start seeing RESOURCE_MEMPHYSICAL_HIGH IndicatorsSystem = 1 when looking at sys.dm_os_ring_buffers. RESOURCE_MEM_STEAD also have an IndicatorsSystem = 1.

For the dm_os_ring_buffer, we will see results such as this:

EventTimeType IndicatorsProcess IndicatorsSystem Avail Phys Mem, KbAvail VAS, Kb

----------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

2019-11-29 14:48:24.440 RESOURCE_MEM_STEADY 0 1 31085396 136037463680

2019-11-29 14:48:24.440 RESOURCE_MEMPHYSICAL_LOW 0  0 31085396 136037463680

2019-11-29 14:48:24.440 RESOURCE_MEMPHYSICAL_HIGH 0 1 31085396 136037463680

2019-11-29 14:48:24.440 RESOURCE_MEM_STEADY 0 0 31085396 136037463680

2019-11-29 14:48:24.440 RESOURCE_MEMPHYSICAL_LOW 0  0 31085396 136037463680

2019-11-29 14:48:23.440 RESOURCE_MEM_STEADY 0 1 31085148 136037463680

2019-11-29 14:48:23.440 RESOURCE_MEMPHYSICAL_HIGH 0 1 31085148 136037463680

2019-11-29 14:48:23.440 RESOURCE_MEM_STEADY 0 0 31085148 136037463680

SQL Server Enterprise - 2016 SP2 CU10

524GB RAM

Min Memory 65,436, Max Memory 471,772

Pages Locked in Memory is set.

Has anyone seen anything like this before?

Ed Mlynar

Hi,

we are running DBCC Integrity command using for user databases and sometime it's skipping one database.

No error message.

last few days, user databases we have 6 DB and DBCC when running every night, one DB not running DBCC integrity check but other databases running so couldn't understand why one DB not checked by DBCC command.

There are no information or any error message in log.

This kind of behavior happens on another server also randomly during nightly backup, one or two DBs getting skipped sometimes and it's not happening everyday but sometimes. 

Hi Experts,

We are in dilemma how is it possible - 

On Source Server sql 2012, we ran DBCC CHECKDB successfully, without any issue it came clean.

We took backup and migrated to sql server 2017 and restored successfully.

In error log , it printed message

DBCC Checkdb executed successfully on 29-Nov-2019 without any error. no action required.

We started DBCC Checkdb, it failed with PFS Corruption issue and Repair_Allow_data_loss the recommended step.

Msg 8948, level 16 state 6 line 1

Database error: Page (1:1204771) is marked with wrong type in PFS Page(1:1197024). PFS Status 0x40, expected 0x60

There were 20 or more errors which we corrected with repair_allow_data_loss.

To check whether there are more error in database or not, we ran dbcc checkdb again

Again it failed with many below errors

msg 8906, Level 16,state 1 line 1

Page(1:1156305) in database id 9 is allocated in SGAM (1:1022465) and PFS(1:1148496) but was not allocated in any IAM . PFS Flags ';Mixed_EXT_Allocated 0_PCT_Full'

msg 8906, Level 16,state 1 line 1

Page(1:1156306) in database id 9 is allocated in SGAM (1:1022465) and PFS(1:1148496) but was not allocated in any IAM . PFS Flags ';Mixed_EXT_Allocated 0_PCT_Full'

msg 8906, Level 16,state 1 line 1

Page(1:1156307) in database id 9 is allocated in SGAM (1:1022465) and PFS(1:1148496) but was not allocated in any IAM . PFS Flags ';Mixed_EXT_Allocated 0_PCT_Full'

msg 8906, Level 16,state 1 line 1

Page(1:1156308) in database id 9 is allocated in SGAM (1:1022465) and PFS(1:1148496) but was not allocated in any IAM . PFS Flags ';Mixed_EXT_Allocated 0_PCT_Full'

Now after running repair_allow_data_loss , it got successful.

Please let me know is this the BUG.

Please If not, how can I recover all data without any loss. Thank you very much

Manish

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Need to create unique key on ref_number column in [purchase_order] table,

while use below 

CREATE UNIQUE NONCLUSTERED INDEX [idx_unique_PO] ON [dbo].[purchase_order]
(
[ref_number] ASC
)WITH (PAD_INDEX = OFF, STATISTICS_NORECOMPUTE = OFF, SORT_IN_TEMPDB = OFF, IGNORE_DUP_KEY = OFF, DROP_EXISTING = OFF, ONLINE = OFF,
 ALLOW_ROW_LOCKS = ON, ALLOW_PAGE_LOCKS = ON) ON [psPurchase_order]([id])

getting error,

Column 'id' is partitioning column of the index 'idx_unique_PO'. Partition columns for a unique index must be a subset of the index key.

So i created Partion-key index,    this one created but this still allow duplicate

CREATE UNIQUE NONCLUSTERED INDEX [IX_Unique_purchase_order_partic] ON [purchase_order] 
(
    [ref_number] ASC,
    id
) ON [psPurchase_order](id)

Hi All,

in this server , SSIS not at all installed and it's SQL server 2016 sp2 CU10 cluster enterprise edition and no old versions are running in this server but maintenance jobs are failing with below error....

Error Details:
Source: Full_Backup      Description: Integration Services evaluation period has expired.  End Error  Error: 2019-12-04 00:00:01.01     Code: 0xC0000033     Source: Full_Backup     Description: Integration Services evaluation period has expired.  End Error  Could not execute package because of error 0xC0000033.  Started:  12:00:00 AM  Finished: 12:00:01 AM  Elapsed:  0.516 seconds. The command line parameters are invalid.  The step failed.

Please provide the resolution steps for this issue....  

RAM

Dear All.

I am using SQL SERVER 2000 for my Databases. Recently, I faced a great crash of Server Hard Drive. Due to which I ran into a big horrible situation. Well Alas i got recovered data back. Now SQL SERVER 200 Says all databases in (SUSPECT MODE). I have put the Hard Drive back on its location. Now what i do to recover or bring back the DATABASES ONLINE. I am using SQL SERVER 2000. Pleas help. 

Thanks in ADV.

Hi all,

I am trying to configure log shipping and getting following error in agent job history.(SQL Server 2019)

There was no problem with sql server 2017 and 2016 in same configuration.

The backup file was created normally but error message is logged.

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

2019-12-04 11:16:50.90 Starting transaction log backup. ID: '26c94b60-7380-4ddd-8dc7-ae2ae70630c7'

2019-12-04 11:16:50.90 *** ERROR: Unable to log history / error messages.(Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.LogShipping) ***

2019-12-04 11:16:50.90 *** error: Failed to convert parameter value fromSqlGuid to String.(System.Data) ***

2019-12-04 11:16:50.90 *** error: The object must implement IConvertible.(mscorlib) ***

2019-12-04 11:16:50.90 Retrieving backup settings ID: '26c94b60-7380-4ddd-8dc7-ae2ae70630c7'

2019-12-04 11:16:50.91 *** ERROR: Unable to log history / error messages.(Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.LogShipping) ***

2019-12-04 11:16:50.91 *** error: Failed to convert parameter value fromSqlGuid to String.(System.Data) ***

2019-12-04 11:16:50.91 *** error: The object must implement IConvertible.(mscorlib) ***

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Can anyone tell me what is the problem in this?

n addition, I found the following phenomena:

Column [last_backup_file], [last_backup_date] of msdb.dbo.log_shipping_primary_databases and msdb.dbo.log_shipping_monitor_primary table is not updated. It's NULL.

It seems to be related to the error message noted above.

Hi,

My SQL Server instance (SQL Server 2016) collation is  Japanese_BIN but i need to move an database from instance (SQL Server 2008) whose collation is Japanese_CI_AS and database itself collation is  SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS. can you please let me knof is there any issue in doing it.

Regards,

Deepak

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms175105.aspx

What is the difference between key_ordinal and index_column_id?

One one table where there is no PK indicated by there is a clustered unique index with four fields, the key_ordinal values reflect the order of the fields in the index, the index_column_id has 3-4 reversed.

So I mainly wonder what the purpose of index_column_id is?

Thanks.

Josh

ps - SQL 2008 64-bit enterprise.

Hello,

Can anybody tell me why do the queries like these not return the database id?

I just don't know how to interpret such outputs: I do see there are plans in the cache but can't figure out which database the corresponding statements were compilied in?

Thank you in advance,
Michael