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Jugal Shah has 19 plus years of experience in leading and managing the data and analytics practices. He has done the significant work in databases, analytics and generative AI projects. You can check his profile on http://sqldbpool.com/certificationawards/ URL.

Error Fix: Microsoft SQL Server, Error: 14516

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Problem: Proxy (1) is not allowed for subsystem “SSIS” and user “Domain\UserName”. Grant permission by calling sp_grant_proxy_to_subsystem or sp_grant_login_to_proxy. (Microsoft SQL Server, Error: 14516)

Solution:
Above error occurs when the user with the minimum permission (i.e. SQLAgentReaderRole and SQLAgentUserRole) or the user is configured as job owner and trying to run the job which is running under the proxy account security context.

You can execute below script to grant permission to the user and fix the error.


EXEC dbo.sp_grant_login_to_proxy
    @login_name = 'Domain\UserName',
    @proxy_name = 'Proxy Name' ;
GO

T-SQL Script to Check if LiteSpeed is installed or not on the server

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You can execute below script against the SQL Server instance and check whether LiteSpeed is installed on the server or not.

T-SQL script is checking registry to check the LiteSpeed version value.

declare @regkeyval varchar(20), @value varchar(255), @rc int
exec @rc=master.dbo.xp_regread 
  @rootkey= 'hkey_local_machine',
  @key='software\imceda\sqllitespeed\engine',
  @value_name='version',
  @regkeyval=@value output

set @value =isnull(@value,'-') 

if @value <> '-'
select 
 @@servername as SQLInstanceName
,case serverproperty('IsClustered') when 1 then cast(serverproperty('computernamephysicalnetbios') as varchar)
 else cast(serverproperty('machinename') as varchar)
 end as WindowsServerName
,@value as LiteSpeedVersion 
,'LiteSpeed is installed' as LiteSpeedStautsCheck
else
select 
 @@servername as SQLInstanceName
,case serverproperty('IsClustered') when 1 then cast(serverproperty('computernamephysicalnetbios') as varchar)
 else cast(serverproperty('machinename') as varchar)
 end as WindowsServerName
,'LiteSpeed is not installed' as LiteSpeedStautsCheck

Powershell – To check the Drive and Disk Space Information

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To get the disk space details of the server, simply go to command prompt and paste the below script it will give you disk space details.

powershell -command "& {Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_LogicalDisk -Filter 'DriveType = 3' |select PSComputerName, Caption,@{N='Capacity_GB'; E={[math]::Round(($_.Size / 1GB), 2)}},@{N='FreeSpace_GB'; E={[math]::Round(($_.FreeSpace / 1GB), 2)}},@{N='PercentUsed'; E={[math]::Round(((($_.Size - $_.FreeSpace) / $_.Size) * 100), 2) }},@{N='PercentFree'; E={[math]::Round((($_.FreeSpace / $_.Size) * 100), 2) }}}"

Sample Output
Caption : C:
Capacity_GB : 283.44
FreeSpace_GB : 51.48
PercentUsed : 81.84
PercentFree : 18.16

T-SQL Script to Check the Native Compressed backup file size and Backup Compression Ratio

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First of all make sure backup compression is enabled on the SQL Server. You can execute below query to check the backup compression.

select name,[description],value_in_use from sys.configurations where name like '%backup%'

Execute below script to check the compressed backup file size and backup compression ratio.

Declare @FromDate as datetime
-- Specify the from date value
set @FromDate = GETDATE() -1

SELECT  
   CONVERT(CHAR(100), SERVERPROPERTY('Servername')) AS SQLServerName, 
   msdb.dbo.backupset.database_name,  
   CASE msdb..backupset.type  
       WHEN 'D' THEN 'Database'  
       WHEN 'L' THEN 'Log'  
       WHEN 'I' THEN 'Differential'  
   END AS backup_type,  
   msdb.dbo.backupset.backup_start_date,  
   msdb.dbo.backupset.backup_finish_date, 
   msdb.dbo.backupset.expiration_date, 
   DATEDIFF (SECOND, msdb.dbo.backupset.backup_start_date, msdb.dbo.backupset.backup_finish_date) 'Backup Elapsed Time (sec)',
   msdb.dbo.backupset.compressed_backup_size AS 'Compressed Backup Size in KB',
  (msdb.dbo.backupset.compressed_backup_size/1024/1024) AS 'Compress Backup Size in MB',
   CONVERT (NUMERIC (20,3), (CONVERT (FLOAT, msdb.dbo.backupset.backup_size) /CONVERT (FLOAT, msdb.dbo.backupset.compressed_backup_size))) 'Compression Ratio',
   CASE msdb..backupset.type  
       WHEN 'D' THEN 'Database'  
       WHEN 'L' THEN 'Log'  
   END AS backup_type,  
   msdb.dbo.backupset.backup_size,  
   msdb.dbo.backupmediafamily.logical_device_name,  
   msdb.dbo.backupmediafamily.physical_device_name,   
   msdb.dbo.backupset.name AS backupset_name, 
   msdb.dbo.backupset.description 
FROM   msdb.dbo.backupmediafamily  
   INNER JOIN msdb.dbo.backupset ON msdb.dbo.backupmediafamily.media_set_id = msdb.dbo.backupset.media_set_id 
WHERE 
CONVERT(datetime, msdb.dbo.backupset.backup_start_date, 102) >= @FromDate
AND msdb.dbo.backupset.backup_size > 0 
ORDER BY  
   msdb.dbo.backupset.database_name, 
   msdb.dbo.backupset.backup_finish_date

Powershell Script to Check – Number of Cores and Logical Processors

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Execute the below powershell script to get the number of cores and logical processors on the server.

Get-WmiObject –class Win32_processor | ft systemname,Name,DeviceID,NumberOfCores,NumberOfLogicalProcessors, Addresswidth

You can even check all the processor values from win32_Processor class.

Get-WmiObject –class Win32_processor | select *