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To 1433 or not to 1433...that is the question
I recently ran into a problem with one of my own internal applications and it re-raised a philosophical question I have had before with customers. There are really two sides to the question: 1) Should...
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SharePoint Adventures : “The connection either timed out or was lost” with RS...
A customer had encountered an issue with their SharePoint 2010 / Reporting Services 2012 deployment. They had setup a Data Source for Reporting Services that was setup to connect to a stand alone...
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AdomdConnectionException using PerformancePoint hitting Analysis Services
I was working with a customer who was encountering problems trying to use a PerformancePoint Dashboard against an Analysis Services Instance. The issue came down to the Claims to Windows Token Service...
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Breaking Down 18065
We have had two blog posts on this blog regarding the 18056 error. Two from Bob Dorr (and part 2) and another from Tejas Shah. However, we still see a lot of questions about this error message. This...
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SharePoint Adventures : When connectivity is not connectivity
I’m always amazed that issues usually come in batches. I was looped into a few cases that had the following symptoms. They were running SharePoint 2010 and Reporting Services 2012 SP1. When they...
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SharePoint Adventures : Claims, Named Pipes and Kerberos
I ran into a new Kerberos Scenario that I hadn’t hit before when I was working on the cases related to this blog post. It’s rare that I actually see a case related to the Named Pipes protocol. When I...
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Getting a SharePoint List Data Source to work with Reporting Services Native...
A case came up where the user was trying to use Report Builder in a Reporting Services instance that was not integrated with SharePoint. It was in Native Mode configuration. They indicated that they...
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TCP Chimney Offload – Possible Performance and Concurrency Impacts to SQL...
TCP Chimney is enabled by default if you apply Windows Server 2003 Sp2. This is an operating system feature that provides capability to offload TCP/IP packet processing from the processor to the...
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RSWindowsNegotiate and 401.1 Error when using RS 2008
While I was setting up one of my demos for SQL PASS, I starting hitting 401.1 errors. I was setting up a SharePoint Intergrated setup with Reporting Services.I knew I had a distributed environment, so...
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SQL 2005 JDBC Driver and Database Mirroring
We ran into some interesting situations with the SQL 2005 JDBC Driver (v1.2) and it's use with failover partners. Take the following connection...
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How to troubleshoot leaked SqlConnection objects (.NET 2.0) - Part 1
One of my colleagues, Kamil Sykora, compiled a document that goes through how to troubleshoot leaked SqlConnection objects (from a .NET 2.0 perspective). It was a fairly large document, so I’m not...
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How to troubleshoot leaked SqlConnection Objects (.NET 2.0) - Part 2
In the last post in this series, we looked at how we can determine that our Connection pool was exhausted. In this post I'm going to go a little deeper into the Internal connection itself and how we...
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Searching for Duplicate SPN's got a little easier
We get a lot of calls related to Kerberos configuration, and I'm planning to write more about our experiences and troubleshooting techniques for these types of issues across the box (Engine, AS and...
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When in doubt, Reboot!
I tend to get quite a bit of Kerberos related cases. These are related across the box, from the Engine, to Reporting Services to just straight connectivity with custom applications. I had one given...
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Report Builder and Firewalls
We have had a few customer calls come in on this scenario that I thought this needed to be documented a bit.Scenario:In this scenario, the customer has a data source defined on the Report Server. Some...
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SQL 2008 - New Functionality to the dm_os_ring_buffers for Connectivity...
Hi, I wanted to make everybody aware of this feature in SQL 2008. Are you tired of having to use NetMon to narrow down a connectivity issue with SQL Server 2008 or have to wait for an elusive...
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‘Cannot Generate SSPI Context’ and Service Account Passwords
Was working with Keith Elmore on one of our internal processes and he was hitting a “Cannot generate SSPI context” when trying to connect from Management Studio. I also saw this come up in a double...
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How to get a x64 version of Jet?
We have had a number of people ask about how they can get the Jet ODBC driver/OLE DB Provider as 64 bit. Windows only ships the 32 bit versions of these. The answer is that the windows versions won’t...
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What SPN do I use and how does it get there?
This month has turned into another Kerberos Month for me. I had an email discussion regarding SPN’s for SQL Server and what we can do to get them created and in a usable state. I thought I would...
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Error 18056 can be unwanted noise in certain scenarios
I saw a lot of hits on the web when I searched for the Error message 18056 with State 29. I even saw two Microsoft Connect items for this issue filed for SQL Server 2008...
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