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Problems with SQL communications over ISDN

McRick — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 11:39:37 +0000

We have upgraded a number of Windows XP clients (from MSDE 1 to MSDE 2000) which interact with a clustered SQL server 7 system (running on Windows NT server) via transactional replication. Our problem is that these clients are connected over ISDN dial up lines and since the upgrade we have noted a significant increase in network traffic. Can anyone suggest what might be causing this? Are there any keep alive timers which need to be (re)configured or is there some other configuration required following the change? Is there such a thing as a best practice guide for employing SQL Server communications over dialup lines?

MSDE for adminDB

John8217 — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 20:27:43 +0000

Ever since I installed Diskeeper Administrator 2009 on my PC (it runs XP Pro, svc pk 3), every time I print something, I get some “MSDE for AdminDB” pop-up that says “Setup has detected that your current SA password is set to blank. Please use sp_password to set a strong SA password and restart setup or set BLANKSAPWD=1 to ignore this vulnerablility. Refer to readme for more details. Setup will now exit.” Then when I click the OK button I get another pop-up that says “Please wait while Windows configures MSDE for AdminDB.” Then I have to click the Cancel button several times to make this all go away. I told the techs at Diskeeper about this but they weren’t able to solve it. I’ve since uninstalled Diskeeper Administrator on my PC but I still have this problem. Can anyone figure this out? (I don’t know anything about MS SQL Server or SA passwords, etc).

MSSQL service SQL service icon in the system tray does not have a green arrow on it

SAP Cum IT — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 05:30:30 +0000

I know Windows Sharepoint services with Windows Server 2000 installs SQL
MSDE by default and the installation of same occurred successfully but
how come afterwards the SQL service icon in the system tray does not
have a green arrow on it instead it has a white filled-in circle and
when I launch it the server and services drop-down menus are blank?
When I try to start it a message comes up and says “This service control
action cannot be completed as no service has been selected”.

SQL Server 2000 backup failed

Fjsittler — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 18:51:12 +0000

can not backup a 2000 db, dbcc checkdb ok. see following:
Errorlog:

2008-01-08 09:54:40.69 spid62 Starting up database ‘CP2005′.

2008-01-08 09:54:41.00 backup BACKUP failed to complete the command BACKUP DATABASE [education]
TO DISK = N’C:\fjs1\education_db_200801080954.BAK’ WITH INIT , NOUNLOAD , NOSKIP , STATS = 10, NOFORMAT

2008-01-08 10:19:18.34 backup BACKUP failed to complete the command BACKUP DATABASE [education]
TO DISK = N’C:\fjs1\education_db_200801080954.BAK’
WITH INIT , SKIP , STATS = 10, NOFORMAT;

2008-01-08 10:19:41.17 backup BACKUP failed to complete the command BACKUP DATABASE [education]
TO DISK = N’C:\fjs1\education_db_200801080954.BAK’
WITH INIT , SKIP;

2008-01-08 10:27:57.81 backup BACKUP failed to complete the command BACKUP DATABASE [education]
TO DISK = N’C:\fjs1\education_db_200801080954.BAK’;

Event Viewer: Application Log:

3041 :
BACKUP failed to complete the command BACKUP DATABASE [education]
TO DISK = N’D:\fjs1\education_db_200801080917.BAK’ WITH INIT , NOUNLOAD , NOSKIP , STATS = 10, NOFORMAT

Job History:

Message
Executed as user: COUGARS\SQLAdmin_juxa. Microsoft (R) SQLMaint Utility (Unicode), Version 8.00.2039
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation, 1995 – 1998 Logged on to SQL Server ‘FRIPP’
as ‘COUGARS\SQLAdmin_juxa’ (trusted) Starting maintenance of database ‘education’
on 1/8/2008 9:17:03 AM [1] Database education: Database Backup…
Destination: [D:\fjs1\education_db_200801080917.BAK]
[Microsoft SQL-DMO (ODBC SQLState: 42000)] Error 3013: [Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver][SQL Server]
BACKUP DATABASE is terminating abnormally.
End of maintenance for database ‘education’ on 1/8/2008 9:17:03 AM
SQLMAINT.EXE Process Exit Code: 1 (Failed). Process Exit Code 1. The step failed.