How to find when Microsoft going to end the support for any SQL server versions?

Please look into the below website http://support.microsoft.com/lifecycle/search/?sort=PN&alpha=SQL

Here you can search any Microsoft Products lifecycle as like below.

[Execute SQL Task] Error in SSIS Merge statement

[Execute SQL Task] Error: Executing the query "EXEC PC_Procedure_name1

EXEC PC_Procedure_name2..." failed with the following error: "The MERGE statement attempted to UPDATE or DELETE the same row more than once. This happens when a target row matches more than one source row. A MERGE statement cannot UPDATE/DELETE the same row of the target table multiple times. Refine the ON clause to ensure a target row matches at most one source row, or use the GROUP BY clause to group the source rows.". Possible failure reasons: Problems with the query, "ResultSet" property not set correctly, parameters not set correctly, or connection not established correctly.

Resolution:

One of the options is presence of duplicates, before running the merge statement, please try to check the duplicates by running below query by combining more than 1 columns.

Scripts for finding duplicates by combining n number of columns

SELECT

q.KEY_FIELD,

COUNT(*)

FROM

(

SELECT

--(column1 ,column2,coulmn3)

CAST(column1 AS VARCHAR)

+CASTcolumn2 AS VARCHAR)

+CAST(coulmn3 AS VARCHAR)

 KEY_FIELD,*

 FROM Sourcetablename

 --where CAST(column1 AS VARCHAR)+CAST+CASTcolumn2 AS VARCHAR)+CAST(coulmn3 AS -----VARCHAR)='12059754183842012-08-26 00:00:00'

 ) q

 GROUP BY q.key_field

 ORDER BY COUNT(*) desc

 --307130

 SELECT COUNT(1) FROM  sourcetablename

 --10510844

 --10510844

Then change the MERGE Statement by adding one more column in the ON Clause to do perform merge.

[OLE DB Destination] Error in SSIS:

[OLE DB Destination [9]] Error: There was an error with input column

SYSTEM_DATE_TIME (130) on input "OLE DB Destination Input" (22). The column status returned was: "The

Value could not be converted because of a potential loss of data."

Resolution:

Check any invalid date value in source csv file, if yes then, change it to 01\01\1753.(Or try to change the  Invalid date value to valid date value). That’s all.

[SSIS.Pipeline] Error :

[SSIS.Pipeline] Warning: The output column "Columnname" (127) on output "Flat File Source Output" (2)  and component "Flat File Source" (1) is not subsequently used in the Data Flow task. Removing this  unused output column can increase Data Flow task performance.

Resolution:

Check the all columns in source table match with columns in destination table, if not uncheck extra column  From the 'Available External Columns' in the Flat file Source Editor by right clicking the Flat file Source.

Database MAIL( sp_send_dbmail) Error in SQL2008 R2:

The mail could not be sent to the recipients because of the mail server failure. (Sending Mail using Account 1 (2012-08-31T18:10:23). Exception Message: Cannot send mails to mail server. (Mailbox unavailable. The server response was: 5.7.1 Unable to relay). 

While sending mail from SQL job through sp_send_dbmail procedure in SQL2008R2, i am getting above error.2 identical emails are send (with same distribution list and same body), with one minute of difference.

Resolution:

One of the email id in the recipients causing the above issue. So I have resolved that issue by changing the wrong mail id in the recipients list to correct mail id.

Eg .(if SMTP server related to your office smtp server. Then sp_send_dbmail will not send mail to another office server mail id in the recipients list.)

SSIS2008R2 Error: 0xC0209303 at Package:

When i trying to load data from MS access (MDB) to SQL ,i am getting the below error.

Error: 0xC0209303 at Package, Connection manager "mdbfilename": SSIS Error Code DTS_E_OLEDB_NOPROVIDER_64BIT_ERROR.  The requested OLE DB provider Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0 is not registered -- perhaps no 64-bit provider is available.  Error code: 0x00000000.

An OLE DB record is available.  Source: "Microsoft OLE DB Service Components"  Hresult: 0x80040154  Description: "Class not registered".

Error: 0xC020801C at Data Flow Task mdbfilename, OLE DB Source [1]: SSIS Error Code DTS_E_CANNOTACQUIRECONNECTIONFROMCONNECTIONMANAGER.  The AcquireConnection method call to the connection manager " mdbfilename " failed with error code 0xC0209303.  There may be error messages posted before this with more information on why the AcquireConnection method call failed.

Error: 0xC0047017 at Data Flow Task mdbfilename, SSIS.Pipeline: component "OLE DB Source" (1) failed validation and returned error code 0xC020801C.

Resolution:

It seems that SSIS project are now on a 64 bit machine. And that there is no 64 bit OLE DB provider Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0.So the fix is in running this project under 32 bit modes

Go to the SSIS project properties page

          à Then Click Debugging under configuration properties

          àSelect “Run64BitRuntime” property to false

          àSave the project

                              ->RUN Build again

          àThen check the package runs to a successful completion.

That's it.

How to find the SQLlogins have proper password except blank,samelogin name as password And ‘password’ as password?

--To find the blank password set for any sql logins.

--PWDCOMPARE Hashes a password and compares the hash to the    hash of an existing password.   PWDCOMPARE can be used to search for blank SQL Server login passwords or common weak passwords.

SELECT name FROM sys.sql_logins

WHERE PWDCOMPARE('', password_hash) = 1 ;

--To find the password set as like the same name of sql login name    for any sql logins.

SELECT name FROM sys.sql_logins

WHERE PWDCOMPARE(name, password_hash) = 1 ;

--To find the password set as like 'password' for sql logins

SELECT name FROM sys.sql_logins

WHERE PWDCOMPARE('password', password_hash) = 1 ;

Hope you can search for blank SQL Server login passwords or common weak passwords with above query.