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Database administration
Automate critical tasks for database administration

  • Auditing and compliance
  • Database backup
  • Disaster recovery
  • Forensic auditing
  • Index defragmentation
  • Inventory management
  • Load testing
  • Object level restore
  • Server compare
  • SQL job automation
  • SQL Server monitoring
  • Transaction log reading
  • Transactional replication

Database development
Integrate database changes and automate deployments

  • Continuous delivery
  • Continuous integration
  • Data compare
  • Data import/export
  • Data masking
  • Database DevOps
  • Database documentation
  • Database modeling
  • Dependency analysis
  • Developer productivity
  • Development best practices
  • Documentation
  • Multi-DB script execution
  • MySQL data compare
  • MySQL documentation
  • MySQL schema compare
  • Object decryption
  • Object refactoring
  • Packaging and deployment
  • Schema and data scripting
  • Schema compare
  • Script comparison
  • SharePoint documentation
  • SQL formatting
  • SQL Server documentation
  • SQL source control
  • SQL unit testing
  • SSAS documentation
  • SSIS documentation
  • SSIS package compare
  • SSRS documentation
  • Statement auto complete
  • Static code analysis
  • Test data generation
  • Text and object search
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Troubleshooting

The “The server <server_name> doesn’t exist in the database” error is encountered when disabling the monitored SQL Server

Applies to
ApexSQL Monitor

Symptoms

After extended work in the ApexSQL Monitor console, when user selects the monitored SQL: Server instance from the monitored servers list and presses the Disable button, the error message “The server <server_name> doesn’t exist in the database” will pop up and the operation will not be accomplished leaving SQL Server enabled.

SQL Server database can’t be taken offline when monitored via ApexSQL Monitor

Applies to
ApexSQL Monitor

Symptoms

A SQL Server instance can’t be put offline using the SSMS Take Offline command when the hosting SQL Server is monitored by ApexSQL Monitor

Cannot update the ApexSQL Monitor user console to a newer version

Applies to
ApexSQL Monitor

Symptoms

On computers where only the user console is installed, the installer will offer only the full installation of ApexSQL Monitor, instead of clean updating of the user console

The “An error occurred when trying to replace existing file” error is encountered when updating ApexSQL Monitor

Applies to
ApexSQL Monitor 2014.03.0072

Summary
When updating ApexSQL Monitor 2014 R2 to ApexSQL Monitor 2014 R3 an error occurs.

How to resolve the ‘Restore filter is not attached’ unexpected error

Applies to
ApexSQL Restore

Summary
This article explains what to do when ApexSQL Restore cannot connect to the restore service and reports the ‘Restore filter is not attached’ unexpected error during the course of attaching a virtual database to the SQL server process

ApexSQL Source Control 2015 is not backward compatible with 2014 and older versions

Applies to
ApexSQL Source Control

Symptoms
After upgrading ApexSQL Source Control from previous versions to version 2015 or higher, the previously integrated databases are no longer linked to source control.

“Activation blocked” message appears during activation

Applies to
All ApexSQL products

Summary
This article explains what to do when the “Activation blocked” message occurs during the activation process

“Failure count exceeded maximum limit for current time period” message appears during activation

Applies to
All ApexSQL products

Summary
This article explains what to do when “Failure count exceeded maximum limit for current time period” message occurs during the activation process

“This activation key is no longer under a support and upgrades contract and will not activate the current version” message appears during activation

Applies to
All ApexSQL products

Summary
This article explains what to do when “This activation key is no longer under a support and upgrades contract and will not activate the current version” message occurs during the activation process

The “System.Reflection.TargetInvocationException: Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation” error

Applies to
ApexSQL Monitor

Symptoms

When a user attempts to enter the global metrics period value immediately after selecting the Metrics view, the above error will occur and the application will close

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