I'm installing SQL Server 2012 at the moment and when I was about to run the installation, this error pops up:
On clicking the first failed test, which is "Reporting Services Catalog Database File Existence", this is what i get:
On clicking the second failed test, which is "Reporting Services Catalog Temporary Database File Existence", this is what i get:
So basically, both of the message box says me that "Catalog Database File" & "Catalog Temporary database files exists". Because of this, i need to select Reporting Services file-only mode installation.
My questions are:
How do i select file-only mode installation?
Do i've to close the setup and do something and afterwards run the setup again?
Btw, I had SQL Server 2012 installed before. I uninstalled it completely due to some strange errors and decided to reinstall a fresh copy of SQL Server 2012 and now I'm stuck with these errors. Any help will be sincerely appreciated. :)
Since you already had one installation of SQL Server done before, there was a database already created. That did not get removed. So when you reinstall, its trying to create the database with the same name, hence, the error. You need to delete the old files to continue the new installation.
From the direcotry
C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL10.MSSQLSERVER\MSSQL\DATA
Remove the following files
ReportServer.mdf
ReportServer_log.LDF
ReportServerTempDB.mdf
ReportServerTempDB_log.LDF
Try the Following link for further help.
Reporting Services Catalog Error.
For sql-server-2012 the path is:
C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL11.MSSQL2012\MSSQL\DATA
where MSSQL2012 is the instance name and the respective file names are:
ReportServer$MSSQL2012.mdf
ReportServer$MSSQL2012_log.mdf
ReportServer$MSSQL2012TempDB.mdf
ReportServer$MSSQL2012TempDB_log.mdf
Remove the following files from the C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL10.MSSQLSERVER\MSSQL\DATA directory:
bulletReportServer.mdf
bulletReportServer_log.LDF
bulletReportServerTempDB.mdf
bulletReportServerTempDB_log.LDF.
This happens if you reinstall SQL Server and these files weren't deleted.
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I am having an issue with Azure Storage Emulator. I tried to re-initialise the database and got the error below.
This was after installing Visual Studio 2019 Preview but this may just be a co-incidence. I tried for an hour or so to get it running and then gave up and just reset my machine with the "keep my files" option, re-installed Visual Studio 2017 and the Azure Tools but still see the same problem.
I know a reset sounds a bit drastic but VS 2019 broke my Azure Functions in VS2017, they would not launch so I wanted a clean install.
If I manually create the DB with sqllocaldb create (version 13.1.4001.0), the DB gets created fine but the init still fails with the same message.
Any ideas?
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SDKs\Azure\Storage
Emulator>AzureStorageEmulator.exe init
Windows Azure Storage Emulator 5.7.0.0 command line tool
Found SQL Instance (localdb)\MSSQLLocalDB.
Creating database AzureStorageEmulatorDb57 on SQL instance '(localdb)\MSSQLLocalDB'.
Cannot create database 'AzureStorageEmulatorDb57' : The database 'AzureStorageEmulatorDb57' does not exist. Supply a valid database
name. To see available databases, use sys.databases..
One or more initialization actions have failed. Resolve these errors before attempting to run the storage emulator again.
Error: Cannot create database 'AzureStorageEmulatorDb57' : The database 'AzureStorageEmulatorDb57' does not exist. Supply a valid
database name. To see available databases, use sys.databases..
After resetting my machine (and keeping files), I ran into this issue. For me, I was unable to run an Azure function in Visual Studio 2019 due to an error around being unable to start the emulator.
It looks like I had the same permissions issues as (I presume) my new account after reset, did not have permission to touch the DB.
I resolved this by:
Deleting the Azure Storage Emulator DB file: %USERPROFILE%/AzureStorageEmulatorDb[number].mdf
Then running AzureStorageEmulator.exe start with admin rights
I was then able to run the Azure Function without issue.
Stop the Azure Emulator if it is running.
Open SSMS and connect to your (localdb) instance.
Manually create the "AzureStorageEmulatorDb57".
Open a command prompt as Administrator.
Run the "AzureStorageEmulator.exe init".
Run your VS project.
I was running into this same issue after installing LocalDb for SQL Server 2017. These steps helped me to resolve the problem I was facing:
Open a command line in C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SDKs\Azure\Storage Emulator
Run AzureStorageEmulator.exe init /forceCreate
From checking my error logs (located at %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Microsoft SQL Server Local DB\Instances\MSSQLLocalDB), I saw
2018-12-21 15:41:13.47 spid65 CREATE FILE encountered operating system error 5(Access is denied.) while attempting to open or create the physical file 'C:\Users{username}AzureStorageEmulatorDb59.mdf'.
This error lead me to the following post: https://dba.stackexchange.com/questions/191393/localdb-v14-creates-wrong-path-for-mdf-files
From reading answers there, I gathered that this is a bug in SQL Server 2017. Without having access to the patch, the solution that worked for me was granting Everyone access to modify C:\Users. This was only an issue on my development laptop, so I could afford to make that security change
or as commented by Andrii install CU13 HotFix for SQL Server 2017. After that AzureStorageEmulatorDb<xxx>.mdf will be created you your user directory as it should.
I had this problem and I don't know why an AzureStorageEmulatorDb57_log.ldf was still present in my %USERPROFILE% directory when I deleted my MSSQLLocalDB instance, but after dropping that file the problem went away.
I came across this issue where I had changed the userlogin to my machine. I have created the database from my previous useraccount. I have copied the database files to the new user account but it gave me this error. It seems to be a permission issue.
You need to find the saved location of the mdf and ldf file of this database. In my case it was stored in 'C:\Users\yourUserName'
Simply delete these files and run AzureStorageEmulator.exe init again and it will create the new mdf and ldf files for you.
After manually upgrading my MSSQL 2016 LocalDB to MSSQL 2019 following these instructions, I got the error mentioned as I was unaware that the Azure Storage Emulator uses LocalDB internally.
To fix it, I simply had to manually re-attach the database located in %UserProfile% with the following SQL command:
CREATE DATABASE [AzureStorageEmulatorDb510]
ON (FILENAME = 'C:\Users\<username>\AzureStorageEmulatorDb510.mdf'),
(FILENAME = 'C:\Users\<username>\AzureStorageEmulatorDb510_log.ldf')
FOR ATTACH;
Worked for me:
Delete any storage/sql database related to azure emulator
run this command on StorageEmulator path:
AzureStorageEmulator.exe init /server .
(Or your SQL instance, Mine was ".")
Check you had install Azure SDK with Visual Studio, if you did't you can add the feature
You can locate the mdf and ldf files in your userprofile directory. Just stop the emulator and copy those files to some other place and delete it from userprofile directory.
Then run the emulator again and it's going to create new mdf and ldf files.
Then stop the emulator and copy the old files back and restart the emulator. This way you won't loose any data.
I will help you with this. First of all create a sql server local db.
Then go to storage emulator folder
_-The Storage Emulator is installed by default to C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SDKs\Azure\Storage Emulator.
Then run this AzureStorageEmulator.exe init /server
docs: AzureStorageEmulator.exe init /server localhost\SQLEXPRESS01
Open SSMS and connect to your (localdb) instance.
Manually create the "AzureStorageEmulatorDb...".
To add yet another answer, I did not have the any MDF or LDF files. Instead, I only had a config file at %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\AzureStorageEmulator\AzureStorageEmulator.5.10.config. I also could not connect to my local (localdb) instance with SSMS.
I changed the SQLInstance value in that config file to be localhost rather than (localdb)\MSSQLLocalDB, and it started working.
You should have an app called Microsoft Azure Storage Emulator.
Start this application.
If the application indicates that it is running run AzureStorageEmulator.exe stop first otherwise run AzureStorageEmulator.exe Start directly. Should create your database automatically, at least it did for me.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/storage/common/storage-use-emulator
This seems to be because the mdf file already exists but LocalDB doesn't have it attached. You can delete and recreate as others have mentioned, but in my case I was able to just re-attach it and it worked fine.
Open SSMS to (localdb)\mssqllocaldb
Right click Databases
Choose Attach
Click Add
Select the existing MDF file (mine was in my user profile and named AzureStorageEmulatorDb510.mdf)
Click Ok
Then try running the emulator again.
This solution is not recommended in generally, but you can try it.
I think AzureStorageEmulator by somehow can not full access the localDB whitch setup in directory has limited the permission.
You can go to folder propertiy > sercurity > edit to full permission ( with me directory is user > Appdata).
Then restart the emulator
cmd restart the azure emulator.
Now it worked. You must consider it's unsercurity later on.
I initialized the db instance and succeed, bu my SQLServer is 2017.
Then I search the solution and the doc said delete the trouble database will solve the problem. Maybe you can try it follow the steps in the doc.
I'm trying to use this DataBase that come with this sample project with from MS:
http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/ASPNET-Web-Forms-6c7197aa/sourcecode?fileId=18930&pathId=365206059
So after I downloaded the files: I need to attach the .mdf DataBase to my Instance of MS SQL 2008.
From Management Studio Attaching DataBase does not work and event using this command i receive the same error:
sp_attach_single_file_db 'School.mdf', 'C:\School.mdf'
ERROR:
Msg 5133, Level 16, State 1, Line 1
Directory lookup for the file "C:\School.mdf" failed with the operating system error 5(Access is denied.).
Any idea what is wrong? Thanks for your help!
Give full permission on folder in which you want to create the mdf file
to the logon account with which the SQL Server service is running.
Usually: NT Service\MSSQL$
You can look that up
Control Panel-> Administrative Tools-> Services=> SQL Server -> Prperties-> Logon Tab-> Note the account
What operating system are you running on? Did you get an elevation prompt when you saved the file to the root of the C drive? What user account is SQL Server running under, and does it have permissions to read any files in the root of the C drive?
You might do better placing the file into %ProgramFiles%\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL10.<instance name>\MSSQL\DATA, alongside the other .mdf files that you know it can already read (adjust path above as necessary, but you hopefully get the idea).
I had this issue and all the solutions online was misleading.
The solution was to open SSMS as Administrator. In my opinion first try this and later try all other solutions.
Moving it to DATA folder basically resolved permission issue. Another solution is to change the permissions of the file (or files) and thus still have DB in different folder. I just ran into similar permission error "CREATE FILE encountered operating system error 5(Access is denied.)" trying to attach DB in SQL Server 2012 express on Windows 7.
Solution I did was following:
1) Rich-click on each MDF, LDF, and NDF file to get menu --> select properties
2) Add Users for computer and give them full control (instead of Everyone - to dangerous)
After that I could attach the DB.
However, even if not moved to DATA folder, should move into subfolder instead of C:\ root (example: C:\mydb).
create DATABASE newDataBaseName
on (FILENAME = 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL12.SQLEXPRESS\MSSQL\DATA\filename.mdf'),
(FILENAME = 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL12.SQLEXPRESS\MSSQL\DATA\filename_log.ldf')
FOR ATTACH_REBUILD_LOG;
GO
Also as Damien mentioned above put the mdf files in the where your other mdf files are located. For me C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL12.SQLEXPRESS\MSSQL\DATA
In my case I found the Directory lookup needed the computer/users group in read/list permissions. While the service and the actual user running the (in my case) restore had full permissions that permission was important.
Security wise I hate it.
I am trying to restore a database (from file thedb.bak). I am using SQL Server Express edition 2005 on a Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit machine.
When I try to restore I get the following error:
System.Data.SqlClient.SqlError: The operating system returned the error '5(Access is denied.)' while attempting 'RestoreContainer::ValidateTargetForCreation' on 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL.2\MSSQL\Thedb.MDF'. (Microsoft.SqlServer.Express.Smo)
My username (antoniocs) is an Administrator. I have edited the permissions in the folder (C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL.2\MSSQL\) so that the user AntonioCS has full control.
I really need to restore this backup. What am I missing?
Note: I am using the Windows authentication to login. Should I try another user (the one I use is an administrator in the machine)?
The account running the SQL Server service requires permissions on that folder.
You may be connected to SQL Server, but actions are done in the service account context: not you.
Run services.msc from command line, see what account is used, permission this folder accordingly.
Do you have a database that uses Thedb.MDF? I ran into this error when I tried to restore a database over a file that SQL Server used. From the restore window, choose Options and change the path or the filename from the "Restore the database files as".
For a few months we're developing an olap cube on SQL 2005. We deploy this cube on the local server which worked fine until a few weeks ago.
From that moment we got got an error while delpoying the cube.
"Error 1 File system error: Error opening file; \?\C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL.2\OLAP\Data\SSAS_Funda.0.db\Dim Bron.0.dim.xml is not a disk file or file is not accessible. 0 0 "
The deployment proces should create these files, but that doesn't happen.
It looks like a permission problem. I check everything but couldn't find the problem. Either on Google I wasn't able to find the answer.
Any ideas?
Cheers,
Aart
I've fixed the problem.
I decided to patch and update SQL server.
I updated SQL server 2005 to SP2 using SQLServer2005SP2-KB921896-x86-ENU.exe and after that I installed a batch of patches which are available in 344806_intl_i386_zip.exe.
Then I followed the following steps which resulted into a succesfull cube generation:
- unprocess all dimensions;
- full process all dimensions;
- unprocess the cube(s);
- process the structure of the cube(s);
- process default the cube(s).
Finally it worked. I think a previous Windows Server 2003 patch or SQL server patch caused security issues on certain users. Like the "Servicce Account" I use all the time.
to fix this in the past, I have deleted the cube from the server and redeployed. This may not be an option in your situation. I would make a backup of the cube before trying this
Our database server had run out of disk space, after freeing up some disk space any query run in sql server management studio, with the results sent to grid view, resulted in this error:
An error occurred while executing batch. Error message is: The directory name is invalid.
When the results sent to text view the queries worked fine.
Does anyone know why this error occurs and how to get rid of it?
All you need to do is to open command prompt and type:
mkdir %temp% and press Enter.
Simple as that. No logout/login required.
Received the message:
SQL Server - An error occurred while executing batch. Error message is: The directory name is invalid
When trying to execute a query in Management Studio after deleting temp files from c:\documents and settings\administrator\local settings\temp
Resolved when logging out of server session and back in again.
This resolution fixes this error on the following environments:
Windows Server 2003
Windows Server 2008
Windows Server 2012
Sql Server 2005
Sql Server 2008
Sql Server 2008 R2
Sql Server 2012
Sql Server 2014
Sql Server 2016
I had similar problem on SQL Server 2012. I checked the folder value in %TEMP% variable (echo %TEMP% from command prompt ) and noticed that the folder did not exist. I created the folder and it did the trick!
I had this issue on my webserver (windows server r2 running SQL Server 2012)
The directory name is invalid.
(mscore lib)
Logging out (killing my remote session) and logging back in fixed the issue for me.
Is the "Default Location for saving Query Results" set to a valid path in Tools/Options/Query Results/SQL Server/General?
Do the TMP/TEMP environment variables point to valid directories?
Reinstalling the client tools will probably fix the problem.
I had this same issue on my Windows 7 machine. I actually encountered the error both in SQL Server Management Studio and Visual Studio 2012. I checked my temp directory and found over 66,000 files. Significantly, there were a large number of files called tmpXXXX.tmp where XXXX was a hex number. The problem was that the files went all the way up to tmpFFFF.tmp. So whatever was creating the temp files was not cleaning them up properly and eventually just ran out of files. The solution was to delete all the files in that folder. Not surprisingly, this also greatly improved performance.
The temp folder can be found at: %TEMP% which will be correct for both XP and Win7.
I was facing this problem for a long time.....simple answer for this problem An error occurred while executing batch. Error message is: The directory name is invalid is just free up the disk drive space ....my problem resloved by this may be this will be helpful for many more...
I faced the same problem if DB was created in SQL Server 2008 and it was opened by SQL Server 2005. Just reopen it in 2008.
I was facing the same problem,
so to check this i typed %temp% and it gives an error for folder not found .../temp/2
so i created a folder name 2 inside temp folder and restart the sql server.
which works for me.
I know it can sound like a joke, but have you tried restarting SQL Server instance?
Yesterday i faced the same error "The directory name is invalid" when i tried to open New Query Window in SQL Management Studio 2014. It happened after cleaning (deleting) %temp% folder files.
I Restarted SQL services but no luck!
My problem was solved after restarting the server.