“The backup set holds a backup of a database other than the existing database” – SQL Server Error Message You may get this message when restoring a database from a backup that was created from another server. SQL may not ...
“Save Saving changes is not permitted. The change you have made require the following tables to be dropped and recreated…” – SQL Error Message Microsoft SQL Management Studio has feature embedded to prevent the user from making changes that may lead to ...
“Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio No row was updated…String or binary data would be truncated…” – SQL Server Error Message When inserting a row in SQL Management Studio, this message appears if data inserted is larger than the maximum size ...
“Backup failed for Server…because it was originally formatted with sector size…” A backup file is attempting to be saved over another existing backup file. When the message appears, the original file ...
“The multi-part identifier “[Select field]” could not be bound.” – SQL Management Studio Error Message SQL cannot find the field in the FROM part of the SQL statement called out for in the Select statement. In this case, a typo in ...
“Error in SELECT clause: expression near ‘[field reference]’. Missing FROM clause.” – SQL Management Studio Error Message SQL is unable to execute the SELECT statement because it cannot find the field reference value in the FROM clause. In this case ...
“Specified cast is not valid. (SqlManagerUI)” – SQL Management Studio Error Message This message appeared when a client tried to restore a SQL backup file made from another instance of SQL using a ...
“Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio Restore failed for Server “[Server Name]”…Exclusive access could not be obtained because the database is in use.” – SQL Server Error Message The action (in this case a restore) cannot be performed on the SQL database. The error indicates that the database is 'in use'. ...
“Restore failed for Server ‘[Server and SQL Instance]’. System.Data.SqlClient.SqlError: Cannot find file ID 2 on device…” – SQL Management Studio SQL server is trying to restore a backup file over an existing database of the same name in the same SQL instance. ...