Monthly Archives: September 2010

CmdExec job step does not work as desired

Sometime back I was trying to automate certain tasks by using SQL Agent. For a change I thought of accomplishing it using native DOS commands instead of my favorite T-SQL commands. During that I stumbled upon an interesting limitation of CmdExec job … Continue reading

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Making sense of hexadecimal error codes in Cluster Log

As I was casually going through my mailbox today morning, saw one CheckServiceAlive failure message for one of the Clustered Instances. [sqsrvres] CheckServiceAlive: QueryServiceStatus failed (status 45b). Since I was connecting from home, I did not feel like logging on … Continue reading

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