Hi
For some reason and quite suddenly DTS packages fail to run via a job. I can run the packages manually though.
I get the error :
DTSRun: Cannot create COM Server to load and execute DTS Package. Error -2147221008 (800401F0): CoInitialize has not been called.
I cant find any reason why this would happen, as I cant find any thing that has changed
We are just migrating to sql servr 2005. I have created ssis pkg that runs fine when run mnaulli under BI. However, when I setup the ssis pkg to run as a SQL job. It errors out. Err is listed below. Seems like it is running the job under the SQL Agent account which does not have permissions to access the server i am pulling data from. Can u assit.
1984-2005. All rights reserved. Started: 1:30:51 PM Progress: 2008-02-22 13:30:57.55 Source: DTSTask_DTSDataPumpTask_1 Validating: 0% complete End Progress Error: 2008-02-22 13:30:58.33 Code: 0xC0202009 Source: Laser- Connection manager "FTWSQL" Description: SSIS Error Code DTS_E_OLEDBERROR. An OLE DB error has occurred. Error code: 0x80040E4D. An OLE DB record is available. Source: "Microsoft OLE DB Provider for SQL Server" Hresult: 0x80040E4D Description: "Login failed for user 'CFC 0SQLA'.". End Error Error: 2008-02-22 13:30:58.33 Code: 0xC020801C Source: DTSTask_DTSDataPumpTask_1 OLE DB Source [1] Description: SSIS Error Code DTS_E_CANNOTACQUIRECONNECTIONFROMCONNECTIONMANAGER. The AcquireConnection method call to the connection manager "FTWSQL" failed with error code 0xC0202009. There m... The package execution fa... The step failed.
Hi All
I have a meaty job that currently runs as a set of sql scripts under sql agent and I'm transferring this job to run as a SSIS package. I have managed to set it up so that it runs as a sql job (cheers guys!), and I'm watching the job run now, maxing out the CPU usage as it tries to run 10 different tasks at the same time . great stuff!
However, I've been thinking about how to view the progress of this job/package (the job only has one step; "run SSIS package"). With the current job as single scripts, in SQL agent you can view which step of the job you are at.... is it possible to somehow view which package task you're at (ideally with nice shiny yellow green and red updates like in debugging), or do you have to output each step result into a log file?
Oh, and another question! If i have a checkpoint in a package, and the package falls over, when the job is rerun through SQL agent, will it start at the checkpoint, or run from the start?
Thanks!
michal
Hi there,
if I have some packages (.dtsx) that are depolyed to Server A and I have SQL Agent installed on Server B - if I run a run a package from SQL Agent, does it run on Server A or Server B?
Thanks in advance.
Hi ,
I have an issues that worries me alot. I have SSIS packages scheduled in SQL Agent and they sometime error out or hang in Agent but never when i run them in BI IDE (Visual studio). There are two particular packages that always hang, alway in Agent but when i run them in BI IDE, they run just fine. Im was running them under in Agent under type= Sql server intergration services and also tried running under type = Operating System (CmdExec). Both types have the same problem. The packages hang. The log files dont say much, because the packages hang, no logging is doing so i dont get any infomation to determin what is going on. Can someone please help me ou.
They wre runnning fine until 4/21/2008 then all SSIS packages started to fail.
Simple SQL jobs are still running fine thouhgt and reporting success.
Unable to start execution of step 1 (reason: The SSIS subsystem failed to load [see the SQLAGENT.OUT file for details]; The job has been suspended). The step failed.
I'm having an issue in SQL Server 2005 with jobs that execute SSIS packages. The jobs run fine for a week or so, then I'll come to find that four or five (of the ten or so jobs) are hung in "executing" status. They seem to hang indefinitely (as some have been "executing" for hours with no end. The schedules of the hung jobs are all different, varying from every 10 minutes to nightly. The packages perform completely diffent tasks, as well. I can't seem to find any common thread with the jobs that get hung, other than they are all executing SSIS packages.
I've tried manually stopping the jobs and restarting the agent and SQL Server but the jobs hang again on there next scheduled run. The only thing that fixes the issue is rebooting the box, and then the jobs hang again in a week or so. Could some sort of memory leak be consuming resources throughout the week and be causing the jobs to eventually hang? I just rebooted the box and the sqlagent90.exe process is currently using about 7mb of memory. I'll keep an eye on it. Any other suggestions?
I've thought of creating another job that stops jobs that are hung, but what's to say that this job won't get hung as well? Plus this seems like a band-aid fix...
I don't recall having these problems until installing SQL Server 2005 SP2. Could this be related? I've searched like crazy and still can't find a resolution to this. It's becoming a big PITA...
Anyway, any suggestions would be very much appreciated!
Hello!
I have SSIS Package that needs special permissions in network. I want to schedule SSIS running using SQL Agent. I don't want to other Jobs starts with special permissions. So, I decided to use proxy account to impersonate SSIS starting process by account with those permissions. I've perfomed following steps:
1. Create Login for the future proxy account and add it to sysadmins role.
2. Create Credential with account name and password information.
3. Create proxy account and give to it rights to run SSIS, CmdExec and ActiveX create.
4. Set Run as for step that starts my package to this proxy
5. Start my job.
and I receive error "Process couldnot be created for step 1 job xxx. Reason: 1314"
SQL Agent account and proxy accounts has also administrators rights on SQL Server computer and rights to login as service.
When I change step configuration to run as SQL Agent account job completes succesfull.
What do I do wrong?
Thx,
Olga
I need some help from you on a problem with SQL Server Agent that I believe many of you have experienced. When searching on the web I find some loose answers, but it would not solve my problems. So here is my story.
1. I have created two SSIS packages, package 1 and package 2. Both packages have a Execute SQL Task making a select sql statement to a table, say Customer in AdventureWorks DB. Package1 also makes a Execute Pacakge Task to Package 2. Both packages have protectionlevel property set to EncryptSensitiveWithUserKey
2. Then I created two package configuration files per package, one indirect xml configuration and one xml configuration file. The former I created an environment variable called pack1, which was specifying the path and file name of second config file. Likewise, I did for package2. Maybe I could have reused thie first configuration file, but I am not sure since package1 calls package2.
3. Now I build and deploy my packages. Then I run my manifest file, going through the deployment wizard setting the necceccary properties like server name, user, password, I have also create the same environment variables on the deployment machine. I ensure that the package1 and package2 can be run under integration services (file system). And both package works. So far so good
4. Now I want to create a SQL server agent job that runs package1 and package2. Here I found an article that decribed How to Schedule and Run a SSIS package ( DTS ) Job in SQL Server 2005 http://www.codeproject.com/useritems/Schedule__Run__SSIS__DTS.asp
5. I created a job executor account and then Create SQL proxy account and associate proxy account with job executor account as described. I created a new ssis job, specifying type ssis integration services, run as proxy, setting package source to SSIS package store, naming the server and package name (package2).
6. Now, I try running job1 which runs package2. ANd it works. I was aware if I needed to give file permission on users (read and execute) on my dtsx/dtsconfig/log files. So far so good
7. Now, I try to run job test which runs package1 (which also runs package2). But now the job fails :-(. The job runs for some seconds, but fails. I have to say that I have some script tasks with message boxes inside!!! hope this doesn't matter. I have created all neccessary accounts, proxies, credentials and so on. here is the view history
Date 17.10.2006 00:50:53
Log Job History (test)
Step ID 1
Server ABEO-GEIR
Job Name test
Step Name test
Duration 00:00:07
Sql Severity 0
Sql Message ID 0
Operator Emailed
Operator Net sent
Operator Paged
Retries Attempted 0
Message
Executed as user: abeo-geir
as_jobuser. The package execution failed. The step failed.
Continue: This error is well known for you. It has been mentioned in many postings. Well, how do I go from here. Setting logging on the job results in only this information
PackageStart,ABEO-GEIR,ABEO-GEIR
as_jobuser,Package1,{3F5BD166-D24B-4838-B3F1-018B6C2C7523},{8E1B8E45-7F1D-4C24-852C-2694F993E6D2},17.10.2006 00:59:40,17.10.2006 00:59:40,0,0x,Beginning of package execution.
PackageEnd,ABEO-GEIR,ABEO-GEIR
as_jobuser,Package1,{3F5BD166-D24B-4838-B3F1-018B6C2C7523},{8E1B8E45-7F1D-4C24-852C-2694F993E6D2},17.10.2006 00:59:41,17.10.2006 00:59:41,1,0x,End of package execution.
Well, I read some place that I could run the job as type operating system (cmdexec). Here i could not choose Run as, but had to select SQL SErver agent account. NOw I got this message
Date 17.10.2006 01:05:21
Log Job History (test)
Step ID 0
Server ABEO-GEIR
Job Name test
Step Name (Job outcome)
Duration 00:00:00
Sql Severity 0
Sql Message ID 0
Operator Emailed
Operator Net sent
Operator Paged
Retries Attempted 0
Message
The job failed. The Job was invoked by User sa. The last step to run was step 1 (test).
As you see, I can't come any further. I NEED HELP FROM YOU. I AM STUCK. I know many of you have solved this and I hope you can guide me through thise. I don't know how many hours or days I have used on this.
Regards
Geir F
Hi,
I installed the dts designer component for 2005 so I could migrate over some 2000 packages and was able to successfully open and run dts packages under 2005.
Then all of a sudden I get this error msg and can't open them, migrate them, export them, etc:
"here were errors loading the package "MyPackageName":
[DNETLIB][ConnectionOpen (Invalid Instance()).] Invalid connection.
(Microsoft.SqlServer.DtsObjectExporerUI)"
That is not a typo, it actually says "here were errors..." instead of "There were errors..."
I've tried the obvious, repair the dts designer component and rebooting, no luck.
Anybody seen this?
Hope this is the right group to post to...
Thx
Hi,
I created DTS packages in SQL 2k and I want to access them (modify) in SQL 2k5.
But I could not open those in SQL 2k5. Is there any way to open them in SQL 2k5
Thanks,
Geetha
Hi All,
I have a requirement of logging the failure and the error of a job executing a SSIS package to text file.
However, when I go to job step -> Advanced, in the section "SQL Server
Integration Services Package" where that info to setup logging is, it
is blank and just says:
"There are no options for this command type"
Any ideas?
I thought that this might not be supported in Standard Edition as I am running standard edition. Then I checked on two other servers, where I have Enterprise edition with SP2. On one of the installations, I am able to give the log file, the other one still shows,
"There are no options for this command type"
What is the problem? Both of them I am using the sysadmin role account. I have proxy account created on both the SQL instances. I don't think this is the problem, but still I checked this.
Can anybody help me?
Regards,
Virendra
I need to start SQL Server Agent so that I can run scheduled jobs. I am running SQL Server 7.0 with windows NT 4.0 service pack 4. When I try to start the agent I get the following error
Error 22003: StartService() returned error 5,'Access is denied'
Does anyone have an idea as to why this is happening?
Any help with this problem would be appreciated.
Thanks
Phil
As my sql agent is not starting due to XP's are disabled . when I ran the sp_configure with override and changed to 0 to 1 when I am starting the agent the configured value will be back to again 0 and in logs.Waiting for SQL Server to recover database 'msdb'...ODBC Error: 0, Invalid character value for cast specification [SQLSTATE 22018]
View 1 Replies View RelatedI am unable to get my snapshot agent to initialize. When I start the "View Snapshot Agent Status" and press the Start button, it appears that the snapshot agent attempts to starts and then it doesn't.
I have configured the a distribution server and need to push a replication to another database, both can connect, etc.
I used the wizard to configure the distributon server and subscription server. I am using AdventureWorks, and am attempting to replicate a single small table.
Hi,
I've created a new SSIS package and am trying to run it as a sqlagent job. If I 'Run as' the 'SQLSERVER AGENT' account I get 'Executed as user: domainadministrator. The package execution failed. The step failed'. If I change this to 'Run as' 'sql agent service account' I get the following message 'Executed as user: [[servername]SYSTEM. The package execution failed'. The step failed.
I can successfully run the package in visual studio, management studio and via the command prompt.
Presumably it is a permissions problem?? I've tried setting up the logging but nothing was written to the log when I run the job, there is otherwise(via Visual studio). I've also tried the following http://support.microsoft.com/kb/918760, but it made no difference.
Anybody else experienced anything similar?
Thanks,
Paul
I have a ssis package that has multiple large lookups without memory restriction. When running the package manually from SSMS on the same server it runs on when running automatically under the job agent, the package errors out when the server memory gets depleted by the loading of the large lookup reference data. One of the messages I get is
"An out-of-memory condition prevented the creation of the buffer object. "
Anyway, the package runs successfully when it runs automatically under the job agent.
I was curious as to why the above happens. Is that a bug or is the run time behavior different under these 2 environments by design.
js40
I have a MASTER package containing multiple packages using execute package task in SSIS.When am running this MASTER Package in Sql server agent in SSMS, am getting error as below.
steps how to run this and let me know what information am missing to run the Master package.
ERROR :Failed to decrypt protected XML node “DTS: Password” with error 0x8009000B “Keynot valid for use in specified state”. You may not be authorized to access this information.
This error occurs when there is cryptographic error. Verify that the correct key is available.
I am unable to execute DTS packages,ISQLs when scheduled from SQL Server Agent . It dispalys a Dr.Watson Access Voilation message on the box .The result of the job is "failed as the step did not return any result ".
1)The utilities run fine when run from clients from other computers .
2)They fail again when run thru the command prompt of the box .
3)They suceed when run via the xp_cmdshell .
Can anybody help me out ?
Thanks,
Venkat
Hi,
I am running SQL 2005 Enterprise with SP2. In the past I have been able to successfully create SSIS packages using the BIDS and also Maintenance Plans from within Management Studio.
Today I tried to edit a maintenance plan and got the following error message:-
TITLE: Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio
------------------------------
Retrieving the COM class factory for component with CLSID {0BE35203-8F91-11CE-9DE3-00AA004BB851} failed due to the following error: 80040154. (Microsoft.DataWarehouse)
------------------------------
BUTTONS:
OK
------------------------------
This error also occurs if I try to create a new Maintenance Plan.
I then tried opening an existing SSIS package in BIDS and got the following error:-
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Microsoft Visual Studio is unable to load this document
Index (zero based) must be greater than or equal to zero and less than the size of the argument list.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
These errors only occur on my PC so I know that the problem is with my PC. I have totally uninstalled SQL 2005 components from my PC and reinstalled them with no luck.
To my knowledge, I haven't installed any other programs since creating these packages, although there's a possiblilty my PC may have had some patches applied through SMS.
I am running Windows 2000 Professional.
Can anyone help me resolve this problem?
Thanks.
Martin
Need some help...
When we tried to run mulitple packages one after the other from a windows service, first one succeeds but later ones are throwing below error :
"The script threw an exception: The element cannot be found in a collection. This error happens when you try to retrieve an element from a collection on a container during execution of the package and the element is not there.
A deadlock was detected while trying to lock variable "System:ackageName, User::BusinessDate, User::Environment, User:ortfolioName" for read access. A lock could not be acquired after 16 attempts and timed out."
Later, we tried to create separate AppDomains for each package and execute via console application, but ended up with below error (The below expressions were defined in OnError Event) :
"The result of the expression "@[User::ReportErrorFrom]" on property "FromLine" cannot be written to the property. The expression was evaluated, but cannot be set on the property.
The result of the expression ""Error At :" + @[System:ourceName] + "" +
"Error Description : "+ @[System::ErrorDescription] + "" " on property "MessageSource" cannot be written to the property. The expression was evaluated, but cannot be set on the property."
At last, we tried to span a separate process (System.Diagnostics.Process) for each package. this seems working but taking very long time:
A package that normally takes 2 min, is taking 60 min.
We also tried creating an SSIS Package that executes mulitple packages. But only first package is getting executed, and second one is throwing below error (Here the variable it is trying to lock is of first package):
"Failed to lock variable "UniqueInstrumentsQuery1" for read access with error 0xC0010001 "The variable cannot be found. This occurs when an attempt is made to retrieve a variable from the Variables collection on a container during execution of the package, and the variable is not there. The variable name may have changed or the variable is not being created.".
Please help us with some work around for this. Thanking you in advance,
Hi All,
I have created a solution which contains only 2 packages say Package1.dtsx and Pakage2.dtsx. I want to create a deployment utility to deploy onto other developers machince. I changed the project properties "CreateDeploymentUtility" to TRUE. When I do the build it is not creating the files in "Deployment" folder. It is saying Rebuild All Failed but the error is not showing.
For more information the 2 packages have 4 indirect configurations from environment variables which are storing the actual config file path.
Am I missing something here?
Thanks.
Venkat.
Hi,
When I click on SQL Server agent I get the "Unable to start service error".
It says serivce started and stopped.
Anybody having any clue on what's going wrong. Please let me know.
Regards,
HV
Am trying to run SQL Server Agent with a service account which is not in the Administrators group. Have done the following -
1. Removed the service account from the Administrators group on the machine
2. Assigned sysadmin privileges to the service account
3. Added it to the SQLServer2005SQLAgentUser$ComputerName$MSSQLSERVER role
4. Through SQL Configuration Manager assigned this account to the SQL Server Agent service
However, this does not start the Agent as a service. What is it that is missing?
Had some big problems with my SQL Server 2008 R2 SP1 during the last maintenance running on Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise ( upgraded from Standard). I'm getting the following error,
"SQL Server blocked access to procedure 'dbo.sp_sqlagent_has_server_access' of component 'Agent XPs' because this component is turned off as part of the security configuration for this server. A system administrator can enable the use of 'Agent XPs' by using sp_configure. For more information about enabling 'Agent XPs', see "Surface Area Configuration" in SQL Server Books Online."
I did a google search and found others with the problem but the resolution isn't working for me. I ran the following commands, heck I ran them multiple times. No errors come back running these commands. But the same error keeps happening, I even restart the service and then the server again.
sp_configure 'show advanced options', 1;
GO
RECONFIGURE;
GO
sp_configure 'Agent XPs', 1;
GO
RECONFIGURE
GO
The msdb got too big for the disk it was on. I had maintenance plans to clear out the all of histories but I didn't think of the mail items. When I finally saw this problem I tried clearing them out using the stored procedures only with it finally failing because the transaction log got full. Since we didn't have a lot of jobs scheduled I decided to just recreate the msdb. So I scheduled a maintenance window, download SQL Server Service Pack 3.
my steps are as follows:
->diff backup of msdb
->stopped the service and started it again with: NET START MSSQLSERVER /T3608
->detached msdb with: SQLCMD -E -SP-SRVR-SQL-01 -dmaster -Q"EXEC sp_detach_db msdb"
->moved it off the drive
->restarted the service without any startup flags
->recreated msdb with: SQLCMD -E -SP-SRVR-SQL-01 -i"D:Microsoft SQL ->ServerMSSQL10_50.MSSQLSERVERMSSQLInstallinstmsdb.sql" -o"D:Microsoft SQL ServerMSSQL10_50.MSSQLSERVERMSSQLInstallinstmsdb62715.out"
I looked at the log file and there were no actual error messages so I applied service pack 3 and restarted server after it installed, was actually prompted to restart. In my tests I was never prompted to restart the server.Now I never started the agent service after recreating the msdb database since I knew it wasn't on the same version. I just went directly to the latest SP. Our applications are running fine but now I cant do scheduled backups.
Hi,
I have stumbled on a problem with running a large number of SSIS packages in parallel, using the dtexec? command from inside an SQL Server job.
Ive described the environment, the goal and the problem below. Sorry if its a bit too long, but I tried to be as clear as possible.
The environment:
Windows Server 2003 Enterprise x64 Edition, SQL Server 2005 32bit Enterprise Edition SP2.
The goal:
We have a large number of text files that were loading into a staging area of a data warehouse (based on SQL Server 2k5, as said above).
We have one main? SSIS package that takes a list of files to load from an XML file, loops through that list and for each file in the list starts an SSIS package by using dtexec? command. The command is started asynchronously by using system.diagnostics.process.start() method. This means that a large number of SSIS packages are started in parallel. These packages perform the actual loading (with BULK insert).
I have successfully run the loading process from the command prompt (using the dtexec command to start the main package) a number of times.
In order to move the loading to a production environment and schedule it, we have set up an SQL Server Agent job. Weve created a proxy user with the necessary rights (the same user that runs the job from command prompt), created an the SQL Agent job (there is one step of type cmdexec? that runs the main? SSIS package with the dtexec? command).
If the input XML file for the main package contains a small number of files (for example 10), the SQL Server Agent job works fine the SSIS packages are started in parallel and they finish work successfully.
The problem:
When the number of the concurrently started SSIS packages gets too big, the packages start to fail. When a large number of SSIS package executions are already taking place, the new dtexec commands fail after 0 seconds of work with an empty error message.
Please bear in mind that the same loading still works perfectly from command prompt on the same server with the same user. It only fails when run from the SQL Agent Job.
Ive tried to understand the limit, when do the packages start to fail, and I believe that the threshold is 80 parallel executions (I understand that it might not be desirable to start so many SSIS packages at once, but Id like to do it despite this).
Additional information:
The dtexec utility provides an error message where the package variables are shown and the fact that the package ran 0 seconds, but the Message? is empty (Message: ).
Turning the logging on in all the packages does not provide an error message either, just a lot of run-time information.
The try-catch block around the process.start() script in the main packages script task also does not reveal any errors.
Ive increased the max worker threads? number for the cmdexec subsystem in the msdb.dbo.syssubsystems table to a safely high number and restarted the SQL Server, but this had no effect either.
The request:
Can anyone give ideas what could be the cause of the problem?
If you have any ideas about how to further debug the problem, they are also very welcome.
Thanks in advance!
Eero Ringmäe
Hi guys
can you help me out---I have developed some SSIS packages in BIDs that use use the Microsoft OLE DB Provider for Oracle for OLE DB - (OLE DB Connection source) and are deploying to a windows2003 x64 server
Q1: How can my package run under 32 bit so it can pick up correct driver msdaora.dll --here
"C:Program Files (x86)Common FilesSystemOle DB" folder rather than "C:Program FilesCommon FilesSystemOle DB" folder which is 64 bit and of course has no msdaora.dll in that location
Q2: How can I set up SQL Server Agent to run these packages under 32 bit mode
At the moment I use the SQL Server Agent GUI and run as SQL Server Integration Services Package\\File System\\
and package path ie E:ComponentsWarehouse.ETLLoadGroup_Daily.dtsx
thanks in advance
dave
I've run into a problem with SSIS packages wherein tasks that write or copy files, or create or delete directories, quit execution without any hint of an error nor a failure message, when called from an ASP.NET 2.0 application running on any other machine than the one where the package was created from. By all indications it appeared to be an identity/permissions problem.
Our application involves a separate web server and database server. Both have SQL Server 2005 installed, but the application server originally only had Integration services. The packages are file system-deployed on the application server, and are called using Microsoft.SqlServer.Dts.Runtime methods. For all packages that involve file system tasks, the above problem occurs.
When the above packages are run using the command prompt (either DTEXEC or DTEXECUI) the packages execute just fine. This is expected since we are using an administrative account. However when a ShellExecute of the same command is called from ASP.NET, the same problem occurs.
I've tried giving administrative permissions to the ASPNET worker process user to no avail.
I have likewise attempted to use the SQL Server Agent job approach but that approach might not be acceptable for our clients since it means installing SQL Server 2005 Database services on the application server.
I have read the relevant threads in this forum, namely http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=1044739&SiteID=1 and http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=927084&SiteID=1 but failed to find any solution appropriate for our set up.
Anybody got any idea on how to go about this?
We manage some SSIS servers, which has only SSIS and SSIS tools installed on them and not the sql server DB.
SSIS packages and configuration files are deployed on a NAS. We run the SSIS packages through DTEXEC by logging in to the server.
We want to allow developers to run their packages on their own on the server, but at the same time we dont want to give them physical access on the server i.e we do not want to add them into RDP users list on server properties. We want them to allow running their packages remotely on the server.
One way We could think of is by using powershell remoting and we are working on that. But is there any other way or any tool already present for the same.
when I run a package from a command window using dtexec, the job immediately says success.
DTExec: The package execution returned DTSER_SUCCESS (0).
Started: 3:37:41 PM
Finished: 3:37:43 PM
Elapsed: 2.719 seconds
However the Job is still in th agent and the status is executing. The implications of this are not good. Is this how the sql server agent job task is supposed to work by design.
Thanks,
Larry
Hi all
Our data management system currently runs DTS packages using DTSPKG.dll.
I am currently looking at the possibliity of replacing the DTS packages and SQL 2000 with DTSX packages using SSIS in SQL 2005.
Do I need a new dll? or will the current dtspkg.dll handle the new DTSX packages?
Many thanks in advance!
Hi All,
I would appreciate any help here at all. I am pulling my hair out!
I am unable to start the snapshot agent or log reader agent from within SQL management studio. it fails on executing step 2 with unknown username or bad password.
I have checked all account details and they are correctly using my domain admin account. I can connect to SQL using teh same account and it also has sysadmin permissions.
If i copy the step 2 paramters and start from the cmd prompt (again logged in using the same domain account) they both start fine.
Any ideas would be gratefully received.
I am testing peer to peer replication in our environment. I simulated a three node peer to peer topology and a local distributor.
For some wierd reason I cannot get the Log Reader Agent and snapshot agent to start. The domain account under which SQL Server Agent runs has administrator previlage on the box. I also use a domain account for SQL Server Service. (none of the passwords changed).
This is the error I am getting - "Executed as user: abc. A required privilege is not held by the client. The step failed"
Any ideas???
Also this domain account is a member of
SQLServer2005MSSQLUsers$ServerName$MSSQLSERVER
SQLServer2005MSAgentUser$ServerName$MSSQLSERVER