“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 ...
SQL Server Error Messages
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“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. ...