Each SQL Server version has a specific native compatibility level, as a way to distinguish it from other SQL Server versions. The compatibility level is used internally in SQL Server for many operations. For example, if you try to restore a database backup taken on SQL Server 2017 with native compatibility level 140, to an … Read more…
Installing SQL Server on a Linux environment with Internet connection is a relatively straightforward process. However what about if you want to offline install SQL Server on Linux? In this post, we will go through a video tutorial I created, in order to offline install SQL Server 2019 (currently CTP 3.1) on Ubuntu Linux 19.04. … Read more…
Sometimes, under certain circumstances, when trying to edit an existing or create a new maintenance plan in SQL Server, using SSMS, just when you try to save the maintenance plan, it might happen to get the error message “No Description Found“. How to Resolve the “No Description Found” Error There is a series of … Read more…
In May 2019, Microsoft announced that the first preview of Entity Framework 6.3 was available on NuGet. Entity Framework 6.3 will be the first version of Entity Framework 6 that can run on .NET Core and therefore, work cross-platform. This development, will make it easier to migrate existing applications that use Entity Framework 6 to .NET Core 3.0. … Read more…
Among the many cool things in SQL Server, a very significant one is the fact that SQL Server provides many built-in tools and mechanisms that allow you to import and export data easily. One day while working with SQL Server, I thought to myself “why not creating an online course demonstrating all these cool built-in … Read more…
Hi folks! I’m pleased to announce that my new online course Entity Framework: Getting Started (Complete Beginners Guide) is now available! This is a comprehensive course on Entity Framework and SQL Server data access. Read on the learn more about the course! What is this Course all About? Entity Framework is an Object-Relational Mapper … Read more…
So, you have a clustered SQL Server instance (FCI), you try to move (fail over) the entire role to another node of the cluster and you get the below error message: Error Code: 0x80071398 The operation failed because either the specified cluster node is not the owner of the group, or the node is not … Read more…
Hi folks! In this post, I’m sharing with you a useful infographic I created for my Online Course “Entity Framework: Getting Started (Complete Beginners Guide)“. This infographic, provides a quick overview of the Entity Framework in .NET, it describes what it is, how it works and what are its workflows that allow you to build … Read more…
Hi folks. Because enabling an SSL certificate on a SQL Server Failover Cluster, thus enabling encryption for your data in-motion, is a little bit tricky, I decided to write this article in order to help you out a bit, since in the past, I encountered the same difficulties. So, please read on to learn more … Read more…
Hi folks! I’m proudly announcing the general availability of my new online course titled: SQL Server 2019 – What’s New! What will i learn in this course? In this course, you can learn in an interactive and efficient way, about all the major new features and enhancements in SQL Server 2019 categorized as per … Read more…
This article, suggests a way of resolving the below error message, when you are trying to access SQL Server using “Microsoft OLE DB Provider for SQL Server” and TLS 1.0: [DBNETLIB] [ConnectionOpen (SECDoClientHandshake()).] SSL Security Error Prior to start writing this article, I was thinking of using a title like “How to still use TLS … Read more…
There is so many people searching the web every on how they can get started with SQL Server! They read blogs, tutorials, how-to’s, watch videos and more. However, besides all that, which are very useful, I felt the need to create a structured online course, that will help people all over the world, to easily … Read more…
This post helps you how to resolve the BULK INSERT-related error in SQL Server: Bulk load data conversion error (type mismatch or invalid character for the specified codepage) for row… , column … Reproducing the issue with an example Consider an example where you have a text file which you want to import in … Read more…
Yesterday, we proudly announced the release of our brand new software tool “My Remote Connections Manager“. In this short post, we are introducing My Remote Connections Manager by describing its main features and explaining how it can help you in your daily IT tasks. What is My Remote Connections Manager? My Remote Connections Manager, … Read more…
Let’s say you have a C# (or VB.NET) project with namespace “MyProject” and you are trying to serialize a class named “MyClass” and you get the error message: There was an error reflecting type ‘MyProject.MyClass’. The first thing to check, is that the class which you want to serialize (that save it to disk), contains … Read more…
