MS SQL Server

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MS SQL Server Express Error 5123 When Attaching a Database

I have been using MS SQL Server Management Studio Express to attach and detach my database for some time and have not had any problems until today. When I tried to attach a database, MS SQL Server Management Studio Express gave me error 5123: Failed to retrieve data for this request. (Microsoft.SqlServer.Express.SmoEnum) Additional Information: … CREATE FILE encountered operating system error 32(The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process.) […]

MSDTC on server ‘\SQLEXPRESS’ is unavailable

I am currently working on a Windows application with C# and MS SQL Server 2005 Express as the back-end database. It’s been working fine until today when it gave me an error message when I tried to update a datatable. The error message is: MSDTC on server ‘(server name)\SQLEXPRESS’ is unavailable. According to Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Express Edition with Advanced Services Readme (see section 3.4), the cause of the error is: Because the Microsoft […]

MS SQL Server Agent job failed to run a DTS package

There is a SQL Server Agent job in our server that runs a DTS package to transfer data from one database to another. However, when I checked the job history, I found out the job never ran. The error message that I got from the job history is like this: The job failed. Unable to determine if the owner (<Domain\Account Name>) of job <job name> has server access (reason: Could not obtain information about Windows […]