Category Archives: Problem Resolution
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Viewing errors with extended events
1September 27, 2022 by Kenneth Fisher
A little while back I came across this post: Identifying failed queries with extended events. It has a script to …
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Running dynamic SQL in a different database
10May 19, 2022 by Kenneth Fisher
This is one of those things that on hindsight was a stupid problem, but still cost me hours and a …
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Talk to the duck.
Leave a commentMarch 31, 2022 by Kenneth Fisher
Over the years, one of the best pieces of problem solving advice I’ve been able to give my kids is …
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Error: Cannot continue the execution because the session is in the kill state.
Leave a commentAugust 24, 2021 by Kenneth Fisher
This was a rather interesting error. I’d certainly never seen it before, and based on one of the answers to …
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Why are my permissions missing?
Leave a commentJune 22, 2021 by Kenneth Fisher
You’d be amazed (or maybe you wouldn’t) how often I hear this: “I used to be able to do xyz …
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#PowershellBasics: Writing to the screen
8May 20, 2021 by Kenneth Fisher
Writing to the screen is a really basic debugging technique. That said, since I’m really new with Powershell this is …
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Connecting to Azure SQL Database: Requested tenant identifier ‘00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000’ is not valid.
2May 20, 2020 by Kenneth Fisher
The other day I got this rather interesting error while connecting to an Azure SQL DB. I was connecting using …
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SQL Homework – May 2020 – Forum Lurking.
Leave a commentMay 4, 2020 by Kenneth Fisher
A few months ago I suggested writing blog post(s) as a great way to learn and document your progress (among …
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Help! My restore has finished but the database still has a status of recovering.
Leave a commentJanuary 8, 2020 by Kenneth Fisher
I’ve been thinking about writing this for a bit and then a co-worker actually had this problem recently, so, well, …
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Error message: http://System.Data.SqlClient.SqlException (0x80131904): Conversion failed when converting the varchar value ‘NULL’ to data type int.
7December 5, 2019 by Kenneth Fisher
I love this error. Primarily because it demonstrates two very important things. Errors matter. Make sure when you ask someone …
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