Pio Balistoy

Pio Balistoy is a Microsoft MVP for Data Platform from Singapore. He has been a Database professional for more than 17 years. He brings his passion for SQL to the community by being one of the Community leads for both Philippine Data Platform Forums (formerly Philippine SQL Server User Group) and Singapore SQL PASS.

Microsoft SQL Server

Fix: Invalid Object Name 'SSISDB.catalog.customized_logging_levels'

Background You migrated an SSIS Catalog from another server by doing a backup and restore of the SSIDB. Restore ...

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Fix: The Instance ID 'MSSQLServer' is Already in Use by SQL Server Instance 'MSSQLServer.Inactive'

Problem: You attempted an in-place upgrade of an existing default instance of SQL Server. The upgrade failed for one ...

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Powershell error: sqlps.ps1 cannot be loaded because running scripts is disabled on this system

Introduction An interesting issue came across my desk this week. One of our clients has a number of PowerShell tasks ...

Microsoft SQL Server

SQL Server default configurations that you should change

Who here takes the time to adjust default values for SQL Server Configuration after installing it? Unless your company ...

Microsoft SQL Server

How to restore encrypted backups

Background SQL Server started having encrypted backups since SQL Server 2014. You can see the technical details here. ...

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Availability Group - Delay with Listener Connectivity After Failover

The beauty of working for multiple clients from different industries is that you get exposed to a myriad of environment ...

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Migrating SQL Server On-Premise to Azure SQL

Let’s revisit our options when moving your SQL Server workloads to Azure and check out ways to migrate on each of them. ...

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Fix: SQL Server to PostgreSQL Linked Server Error - "Requested conversion is not supported."

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How To Export Collections in SCCM to CSV Using Powershell

Your mission: Gather a list of servers in a specific collection on System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) so you or ...

Microsoft SQL Server

How to Fix: The Selected Subscriber does not satisfy the minimum version compatibility

Problem: You are trying to add a new subscriber to a SQL Server Publication using the SQL Server Management Studio and ...

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How to fix SQL backup to URL failure - operating system error 50

Problem: You run an SQL backup to URL and get the following error: Msg 3201, Level 16, State 1, Line 1 Cannot open ...

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How to fix SSIS deployment error "please create a master key"

Problem: You are deploying a SQL Server Integration Services Package to the SSIS Catalog and keeps on failing with the ...

Microsoft SQL Server

Five ways to migrate your on-premises SQL database to Azure

Evaluating cloud deployment options There are currently three deployment options for SQL Server Database on the cloud. ...

Microsoft SQL Server

How to fix SQL backup to URL error: The remote server returned an error: (400) bad request

Problem: You are trying to take a native SQL Backup to URL and you receive the error below: Msg 3271, Level 16, State ...

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How to restore SSISDB to another server and migrate the SSIS catalog

It is easy to get this one wrong. SSISDB is just a database, after all, and I've seen a number of instances where it ...

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How to solve an SSIS Deployment Error

Problem: You are deploying a SQL Server Integration Services Package to the SSIS Catalog and it keeps on failing with ...

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How to Install SQL Server Reporting Services 2019

Problem You’re trying to install SQL Server 2019 and when you reach the feature selection SSRS is nowhere to be found. ...

Microsoft SQL Server

FIX: SQL server installer hangs on existing clustered instance “running discovery on remote machine”

Problem You’re trying to install a service pack, cumulative updates, or run the installer to add a shared feature on a ...

Microsoft Azure

How to Fix the “There is not enough space on the disk” Azure SQL Data Sync Error

Here’s how to remedy the “There is not enough space on the disk” error on Azure SQL Data Sync. Problem You established ...

Microsoft SQL Server

Fix: SSIS Installation Error – Rule “Existing clustered or clustered-prepared instance” Failed

Problem You’re trying to install SQL Server Integration Services to an existing SQL Server failover cluster. You chose ...

Microsoft SQL Server

Fix: SSIS Catalog Creation Error – “SQL Server Denali is Required to Install Integration Services”

Problem You’re trying to create an SSIS Integration Catalog using SQL Server Management Studio for a SQL Server ...

Microsoft Azure

How to Fix the “Triggers on Memory-Optimized Tables Must Use WITH NATIVE_COMPILATION” Azure SQL Data Sync Error

Here’s how to quickly fix a common error that occurs while executing Azure SQL Data Sync. Problem You’re starting a ...

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Pio Balistoy

Posts by Pio Balistoy

Fix: Invalid Object Name 'SSISDB.catalog.customized_logging_levels'

Fix: The Instance ID 'MSSQLServer' is Already in Use by SQL Server Instance 'MSSQLServer.Inactive'

Powershell error: sqlps.ps1 cannot be loaded because running scripts is disabled on this system

SQL Server default configurations that you should change

How to restore encrypted backups

Availability Group - Delay with Listener Connectivity After Failover

Migrating SQL Server On-Premise to Azure SQL

Fix: SQL Server to PostgreSQL Linked Server Error - "Requested conversion is not supported."

How To Export Collections in SCCM to CSV Using Powershell

How to Fix: The Selected Subscriber does not satisfy the minimum version compatibility

How to fix SQL backup to URL failure - operating system error 50

How to fix SSIS deployment error "please create a master key"

Five ways to migrate your on-premises SQL database to Azure

How to fix SQL backup to URL error: The remote server returned an error: (400) bad request

How to restore SSISDB to another server and migrate the SSIS catalog

How to solve an SSIS Deployment Error

How to Install SQL Server Reporting Services 2019

FIX: SQL server installer hangs on existing clustered instance “running discovery on remote machine”

How to Fix the “There is not enough space on the disk” Azure SQL Data Sync Error

Fix: SSIS Installation Error – Rule “Existing clustered or clustered-prepared instance” Failed

Fix: SSIS Catalog Creation Error – “SQL Server Denali is Required to Install Integration Services”

How to Fix the “Triggers on Memory-Optimized Tables Must Use WITH NATIVE_COMPILATION” Azure SQL Data Sync Error

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