Hi guys, I'm trying to figure out why i'm having issues with the SQL server agent trying to start.
the error i get is 14258 cannot perform this operation while sqlserveragent is starting. try again later. sql-dmo(odbc sqlstate:42000)
any ideas how to fix this. I start the service as a domain user that is an admin on the server. but when i run a job it gives me the above error.
thanks.
Hi,
we have a SQL server 7.0 on windows 2000 m/c,from yesterday onwards suddenly sqlserver agent is not starting,till then it was working fine.
I tried to start SQL server agent manually and i got following message
"[241] Startup error: Unable to initialize error reporting system (reason: The specified module could not be found) "
Then i tried to start from services in controll panel,but i could't.
Then i checked event log ,found following error messages
Application log:
1) "The description for event ID(105) in soure(SQL Server Agent) can not be found.
The Localcomputer may not havethe nessary registry information or message DLL files to
display messagees from a remote computer.The following information is part of the event:
The handle is invalid."
Event ID: 105
Source : SQLServerAgent
Category: Disk
system log:
1)The Sql server agent service failed to start due to the following error:
The service did not respond to the start or control request in a timely fashion.
can any one help me in this matter
Thanks in advance
Ananth
Hi Folks,
Can anyone amongst u solve my problem..When i try to start the Sql Server Agent..i'm given the following error meassage..
Could not start Sql Server Agent.Error 2140.An Internal Windows NT error.
Please help me if anybody can.
Hi have you guys seen this error when trying to start the sql agent?
SQLServerAgent could not be started (reason: sqlserveragent must be able to connect to sqlserver as sysadmin, but '(unkown)' is not a member of the sysadmin rol.
What is this all about I can start the sql server service with the same account i'm trying to start the agent.
When I am trying to start SQL Server Agent from Enterprise Manager I am getting:
" An Error 5 - (Access Denied) occured while performing this operation on SQLServerAgent. "
No sound explanation found in MSDN library.
How to resolve this matter, is there other than EM methods so start it?
Thanx.
Zaven
Hi
How can we start the SQL Server Agent without having physical acess to the server, I mean i have access to the EM which is installed on another server. How to start the SQL Server Agent , the login i use has sa rights ,
Please help
Hi,
Running SQL 7.0 on NT4.
When server boots the SQL Server Agent appears to start normally. NT Service starts, Event Viewer shows service is started, Service Control Manager shows service started.
However when I try to view a job or create a lob I get the following error:
Error 14258: Cannot perform this operation while SQLServerAgent is starting. Please try again later.
Has anyone seen this behaviour before??
Thanks in advance
Michael
I am running windows 2003 and sql server 2005. i am following the directions in books online:
On the Start menu, point to All Programs, point to Microsoft SQL Server 2005, point to Configuration Tools, and then click SQL Server Configuration Manager.
In SQL Server Configuration Manager, expand Services, and then click SQL Agent.
In the results pane, right-click any instance, and then click Start.
A green arrow on the icon next to the SQL Server Agent and on the toolbar indicates that SQL Server Agent started successfully.
Click OK.
the problem is i have nothing in Services. there is nothing to expand.
is it installed wrong?? or is there another step before this that i have to do??
We have SQL 2000 (SP2) , Our SQL server agent showing green light as started from EM , It is succussfully restarting from NT Services too . But When I open the properties of the jobs from EM its gives error message SQL DMO error " SQl Agent is starting , try later " . And in EM Next run Date & Time not available .
MDDB database is accessable & in Log file its recovered fully
Thankx in Advance
Sha
I've been struggling to figure out how to set the "Log on as" login for a SQL Server agent that isn't a member of the Administrators group.
Is this even possible? No matter what policy settings I assign the the user, I get an access denied error when I try to start the SQL Server Agent service. If that user is part of the administrators group, there are no errors.
I have no problems with other services and "log on as" logins...
I have a Win 2003 server running 3 instances of SQL 2000 Enterprise.
The problem is I can only start 2 of the 3 Job Agents at a time, as the 3rd gets stuck in a starting state.
Has anyone struck this problem before?
Thanks.
When I start SQL Server Agent it's shutting down minute after starting. I tried to set Alerts to send email. After I configured Database Mail ,I was able to send test email , however after that SQL Server Agent started to misbehave.
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Here is the event log.
Event Type: Error
Event Source: SQLSERVERAGENT
Event Category: Service Control
Event ID: 103
Date: 3/28/2007
User: N/A
Computer: SQL2
Description: SQLServerAgent could not be started (reason: SQLServerAgent must be able to connect to the SQL Server as SysAdmin, but '(Unknown)' is not a member of the SysAdmin role).
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Hi ,
Whenever I restart the Server , SQL server service is starting properly, but the agent is showing the green sign in EM ,agent Log also its showing its started. But in EM the jobs are not showing the next run time its showing ( Date and time not available). When I double click the jobs its showing the following error message
Micorsoft SQL - DMO ( ODBC Sql state 42000)
Error 14258 : can not perform this operation while SQL server agent is starting)
FYI :This server contain the databases of SMS too .
Thank you ,
Shaji
I am not able to run more than 8 jobs in SQL Server using SQL Agent JOB.
Any ideas and suggestions.
Thanks in advance.
Hi
All my SSIS packages consistently take 1 minute to start when they are scheduled via the SQL Agent.
For example, a package runs in 20 seconds in the BI Studio. I transfer it to the SQL server and store it in MSDB. I then run it manually from SSMS - Integration Services and it takes 20 seconds. I then schedule it via a job in the SQL Agent and it takes 1 minute 20 seconds.
I can see from some simple logging that there is consistently a delay of 1 minute between the job starting and the package starting.
I have also switched every occurrence possible of DelayValidation to TRUE in all my packages and tasks. All this did was reduce the package run time from 27 seconds to 20 - the 1 minute delay still exists.
This happens on all my packages on all my servers. Any ideas.....?
Thanks
Hi,
I wonder if anybody can shed any light on this problem. I have a SQL Agent job which has three steps, each step runs an SSIS package.
The job is scheduled to start at 11.00 pm, which is does successfully. However, it has been taking between 2 and 3 hours to run, which is way longer than it should.
When I've looked at the logging, I've found that the although the job starts at 11.00 pm, the first package (in job step 1) does not start executing until about 11.30. It finishes in about 5 minutes, there is then about an hour delay before the second package (in job step 2) starts. This finishes in about 10 minutes, then there is another hour delay before the third package (in job step 3) starts.
I've tried configuring the steps as SSIS jobs, and also as cmd jobs using dtexec, both exhibit the same behaviour.
Any ideas about what could be causing this delay? The packages are stored in msdb on the same server as the SQL Agent job, if that makes any difference.
Thanks,
Sam
SQL agent is using NT login with all permission & agent and sqlserver using the same NT username . SA password has not been changed for more than one year.
The SQL Server agent log is showing "waiting to recover database". What could be the reason ?
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Ray Miao at 6/5/2002 8:13:38 AM
Double check with sql service manager. Did you change sa pwd?
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Shaji at 6/5/2002 4:36:16 AM
Hi ,
Whenever I restart the Server , SQL server service is starting properly, but the agent is showing the green sign in EM ,agent Log also its showing its started. But in EM the jobs are not showing the next run time its showing ( Date and time not available). When I double click the jobs its showing the following error message
Micorsoft SQL - DMO ( ODBC Sql state 42000)
Error 14258 : can not perform this operation while SQL server agent is starting)
FYI :This server contain the databases of SMS too .
Thank you ,
Shaji
Hi,
I have stumbled on a problem with running a large number of SSIS packages in parallel, using the €œdtexec€? command from inside an SQL Server job.
I€™ve described the environment, the goal and the problem below. Sorry if it€™s 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 we€™re loading into a staging area of a data warehouse (based on SQL Server 2k5, as said above).
We have one €œmain€? 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 €œdtexec€? 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. We€™ve 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 €œcmdexec€? that runs the €œmain€? SSIS package with the €œdtexec€? 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.
I€™ve 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 I€™d 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 €œMessage€? is empty (€œMessage: €œ).
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 package€™s script task also does not reveal any errors.
I€™ve increased the €œmax 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
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This happens randomly and when it does fail, I can either what for the next occurence in the schedule or I can start the agent manually and it completes successfully. I can also ping the other box when it happens. I've looked at the event logs and don't see anything going on around the times the distribution agent is having the problems.
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I've got a very simple package that truncates some rows from a table. The packages utilizes configurations as described in a post I made on this forum yesterday http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=3062343&SiteID=1.
When the package is deployed and installed on the prod server, it runs successfully from the Execute Package Utility, utilizing the configurations as expected, removing the rows from the target table.
When the package is run from the SQL Agent on prod, it completes successfully without errors, but the rows in the prod table remain. On the "Data Source" tab in the job, the correct connection string shows pointing at the prod database (picked up from a config file on the prod server).
Curiously, the job appears to run the truncate against the test db table - I tested this by putting rows in the target tables on both test and prod. When the package is run from SQL Agent, the test rows are removed. When run from the Execute Package Utility on prod, the prod rows are removed. Huh?
Again, the Data Source tab in the Job on prod shows the prod db connection string and the package removes the rows correctly from the prod table when run from the Execute Package Utility on prod.
Does anyone have any thoughts on this behavior when using the Job Agent to execute a package?
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I have more than 80 databases on my publisher (SQL Server 2000 SP4), I tried to enable Transaction Replication on all of those databases instantly through some T-SQL programming and DTS Packages. Every thing works fine until the snapshot agents starts to take sanpshot from the publisher databases. As soon as their snapshot agents start for those 80 databases, they start giving the deadlock error. All 80 snapshot agents starts at the same time.
Error Message:
Transaction (Process ID xxx) was deadlocked on lock resources with another process and has been chosen as the deadlock victim. Rerun the transaction.
Error Detail:
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(Source: Server_Distribution (Data source); Error number: 1205)
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WHY???
Hi,
I've just installed SQL 2005 SP2 Rollup 3 Package (Build 3186) on a 2 node X64 W2K3 Cluster.
Everything went fine, although after the install, the SQLAgent Services of my instances started to complain about delegation not enabled for the domain account used for the SQLAgent Service.
SPN's were already registered, so I've enabled unconstrained delegation & no errors anymore..
Apparently we're obliged to enable delegation as soon as this hotfix is installed
(maybe due to fix 938086 included in it ?)
To make this setup more secure, we would like to enable constrained delegation.
This does not seem to work, as soon as we choose constrained delegation by adding the SPN of the clustername to the domain user account we're running with & restart the sql agent, it fails with the same error as when no delegation was configured:
! [298] SQLServer Error: 22022, CryptUnprotectData() returned error -2146892987, 'The requested operation cannot be completed. The computer must be trusted for delegation and the current user account must be configured to allow delegation.' [SQLSTATE 42000]
! [442] ConnConnectAndSetCryptoForXpstar failed (0).
Summary:
With Unconstrained delegation enabled for computer account & user account, everything goes fine.
As soon as constrained delegation is chosen, by adding the SPN's to the domain user account of SQL Agent, SQL agent fails to start.
We use a domain account for the SQL Agent.
This account has an 2 SPN registered on it
MSSQLSvc/<FQDN SQL instance network name>:1433
MSSQLSvc/<FQDN SQL instance network name>
Connections to SQL go fine, authorization scheme is Kerberos even when SQL Agent fails to start due to this delegation failure.
Domain account has "act as part of operating system" & "impersonate a client after authorzation"
Anyone an idea ?