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About Me
- Name: Mitch Wheat
- Location: Perth, WA, Australia
Mitch Wheat has been working as a professional programmer since 1984, graduating with a honours degree in Mathematics from Warwick University, UK in 1986. He moved to Perth in 1995, having worked in software houses in London and Rotterdam. He has worked in the areas of mining, electronics, research, defence, financial, GIS, telecommunications, engineering, and information management. Mitch has worked mainly with Microsoft technologies (since Windows version 3.0) but has also used UNIX. He holds the following Microsoft certifications: MCPD (Web and Windows) using C# and SQL Server MCITP (Admin and Developer). His preferred development environment is C#, .Net Framework and SQL Server. Mitch has worked as an independent consultant for the last 10 years, and is currently involved with helping teams improve their Software Development Life Cycle. His areas of special interest lie in performance tuning
Sunday, September 17, 2017
SQL Server Connectivity Issues: Guided Walkthrough
It’s not uncommon to see questions on StackOverflow relating to SQL Server connectivity issues. Microsoft support have published the following guide to help troubleshoot connectivity issues:
Solving Connectivity errors to SQL Server
In addition to providing a checklist of items that you can go through, it provides step by step troubleshooting procedures for the following error messages:
- A network-related or instance-specific error occurred while establishing a connection to SQL Server
- No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it
- SQL Server does not exist or access denied
- PivotTable Operation Failed: We cannot locate a server to load the workbook Data Model
- Cannot generate SSPI context
- Login failed for user
- Timeout Expired
- The timeout period elapsed prior to obtaining a connection from the pool
There are also troubleshooting guides for Always On and SQL Azure DB connectivity issues:
Troubleshooting Always On Issues
Troubleshooting connectivity issues with Microsoft Azure SQL Database
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MSN, Email: mitch døt wheat at gmail.com
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