I'm getting an error, says "Could not load the DLL xpstar.dll... Reason: 5(Access is denied)" right after logging into SQL Server Management Studio . Even though I can browse through the database schemas but I can't perform any action.
`My current configuration:
SQL Server Enterprise 2016
SQL Server 2016 Management Studio
Authentication mode: mixed mode`
SQL Server services
Binn folder permissions
What I've tried to figure out the cause:
Check Sql server services and they are all running.
Try connecting and performing some actions with SQLCMD (list tables, list db schemas...). It's all good.
Run SSMS as administrator.
Check permissions of BINN folder.
Disable Kaspersky Endpoint Security.
None of above steps can resolve the issue. So please kindly help me to fix it.
It turns out the folder ownership is the root cause. MSSQL and its subfolders were owned by SYSTEM. Even though Administrators group were assigned full control but They couldn't access to the folder. Probably, Kaspersky is involved. I'm not sure about that.
Solutions:
Change ownership of folder MSSQL (Drive:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQLXX.MSSQLSERVER\MSSQL) from SYSTEM to Administrator.
Run SSMS as Administrator and problem is solved.
I detached a SQL Server database for moving the files (both data and log) to another computer. When I tried to re-attach the files, I get this message:
C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL13.MSSQLSERVER\MSSQL\DATA
Cannot access the specified path or file on the server. Verify that you have the necessary security privileges that the path or file exists.
I added "full control right" to my security privileges on the folder C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server. However it failed for some subfolders.
Then I tried adding "everyone" and assigned it with "full control right" without any fails. But the same message still persisted.
Can anybody help me?
Verify that the path is correct, as it changes from version to version. Then add rights to the service account used by SQL Server. Also make sure to be checking the correct computer, meaning that you should be handling the files, folders and permissions in the server not your client computer.
I backed up a database from a SQL Server 2005 using my SSMS Task and called it datalab_auth.bak.
I then tried to restore it to my SQL Server 2012 but keep getting 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\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL11.MSSQL11\MSSQL\datalab_auth.mdf'. (Microsoft.SqlServer.SmoExtended)
I tried to set the path in the above error to have permissions of Everyone to Full. Which it is currently set to.
What am I missing?
When you are performing a restore, make sure you set the option to "Overwrite the existing database" in the restore wizard.
Check what account you are using to run the SQL service through the SQL Configuration Manager and assign permissions to the account on the file and folder.
This post might help:
mssql '5(Access is denied.)' error during restoring database
The OS error 5 is about to permissions issue on the files and folder paths, I have check my account on config manager to fix this issue.
The fix steps on my case:
open SqlServer Configuration Manager as administration
Click SqlServer Service
Right click on you sql server instance, click properties
Choose Log On tab
Account name: input your administrator account and password.
Then backup database successfully.
The environment is that, the OS is Win7 and the version of sql server is MS Sqlserver 2012
This worked for me. After you select your database to restore, select file option and check realocate all files to folder
For some reasons I moved this folder : (Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL11.MSSQLSERVER\MSSQL) to another drive, then returned it to the same location, but sql server has stopped working, showing this error when trying to start it again:
Windows could not start the SQL Server (MSSQLSERVER) on Local
Computer. For more information, review the System Event Log. If this
is a non-Microsoft service, contact the service vendor, and refer to
service-specific error code 3417.
I tried many solutions discussed in different forums, but none of them work for me.
The folder is not compressed or encrypted.
My sql server version is 2012:
Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio 11.0.3128.0
Microsoft Analysis Services Client Tools 11.0.3128.0
Microsoft Data Access Components (MDAC) 6.1.7601.17514
Microsoft MSXML 3.0 4.0 6.0
Microsoft Internet Explorer 9.0.8112.16421
Microsoft .NET Framework 4.0.30319.18047
Operating System 6.1.7601
Thanks for your kind help in advance.
Very simple to solve this problem.
Just open RUN window(Window+R) and type services.msc:
Services.msc window
Find the SQL within name column and right click on that.
right click on SQL as in screenshot
You will get properties option, click on properties.
One new window will be open and there you have to click on Log On tab. And select the Local System Account. then apply and okay.
Select Local system Account
After that come again in services.msc window. and right click on sql and click start.
And finally, SQL Server services started successfully. enjoy and keep learning.
Check if you did compress the driver or folder in where you put the .mdf file.
If so, plesae goto the driver or folder, change the compress option by
Properties -> Advanced and unticked the “Compress contents to save disk space” checkbox.
After above things, you should be able to start the service again.
Run this command after opening cmd as administrator
net start mssqlserver /T902
This command is called trace flag 902. It is used to bypass script upgrade mode. Every time when you try to start your sql service it also looks for script upgrades. and when the script upgrade fail your service unable to start. So, Whenever we have such upgrade script failure issue and SQL is not getting started, we need to use trace flag 902 to start SQL.
I hope this will help you..
In my particular case, I fixed this error by looking in the Event Viewer to get a clue as to the source of the issue:
I then followed the steps outlined at Rebuilding Master Database in SQL Server.
Note: Take some good backups first. After erasing the master database, you will have to attach to all of your existing databases again by browsing to the .mdf files.
In my particular case, the command to rebuild the master database was:
C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\110\Setup Bootstrap\SQLServer2012>setup /ACTION=rebuilddatabase /INSTANCENAME=MSSQLSERVER /SQLSYSADMINACCOUNTS=mike /sapwd=[insert password]
Note that this will reset SQL server to its defaults, so you will have to hope that you can restore the master database from E:\backup\master.bak. I couldn't find this file, so attached the existing databases (by browsing to the existing .mdf files), and everything was back to normal.
After fixing everything, I created a maintenance plan to back up everything, including the master database, on a weekly basis.
In my particular case, this whole issue was caused by a Seagate hard drive getting bad sectors a couple of months after its 2-year warranty period expired. Most of the Seagate drives I have ever owned have ended up expiring either before or shortly after warranty - so I'm avoiding Seagate like the plague now!!
This usually occurs when the master.mdf or the mastlog.ldf gets corrupt . In order to solve the issue goto the following path C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL10.SQLEXPRESS\MSSQL , there you will find a folder ” Template Data ” , copy the master.mdf and mastlog.ldf and replace it in C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL10.SQLEXPRESS\MSSQL\Data folder . Thats it . Now start the MS SQL service and you are done
I have had the same error recently. I have checked the folder Log of my Server instance.
x:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL11.MSSQLSERVER\MSSQL\Log\
and I have found this errors in logs
Starting up database 'master'.
Error: 17204, Severity: 16, State: 1.
FCB::Open failed: Could not open file
x:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL11.MSSQLSERVER\MSSQL\DATA\master.mdf for file number 1. OS error: 5(Access is denied.).
Error: 5120, Severity: 16, State: 101.
Unable to open the physical file "E:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL11.MSSQLSERVER\MSSQL\DATA\master.mdf". Operating system error 5: "5(Access is denied.)".
Error: 17204, Severity: 16, State: 1. FCB::Open failed: Could not open file E:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL11.MSSQLSERVER\MSSQL\DATA\mastlog.ldf for file number 2. OS error: 5(Access is denied.).
Error: 5120, Severity: 16, State: 101. Unable to open the physical file "E:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL11.MSSQLSERVER\MSSQL\DATA\mastlog.ldf". Operating system error 5: "5(Access is denied.)".
SQL Server shutdown has been initiated
So for me it was an easy fix. I just added proper access rights to this files to the sql server service account.
I hope it will help
In My case I had to Upgrade the SQL Server since evaluation licence had been expired.
What is System Event Log saying?
Have you tried to repair:
Sql Server Installation Center -> Maintenance -> Repair
I was getting this error today. And above answers didn't help me. I was getting this error when I try to start the SQL Server(SQLEXPRESS) service in Services(services.msc).
When I checked the error log at the location C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL13.SQLEXPRESS\MSSQL\Log, there was an entry related TCP/IP port.
2018-06-19 20:41:52.20 spid12s TDSSNIClient initialization failed
with error 0x271d, status code 0xa. Reason: Unable to initialize the
TCP/IP listener. An attempt was made to access a socket in a way
forbidden by its access permissions.
Recently I was running a MSSQLEXPRESS image in my docker container, which was using the same TCP/IP port, that caused this issue.
So, what I did is, I just reset my TCP/IP by doing the below command.
netsh int ip reset resetlog.txt
Once the resetting is done, I had to restart the machine and when I try to start the SQLEXPRESS service again, it started successfully. Hope it helps.
Go to the services and check if the SQL Server (MSSQLSERVER) service is running stop it and start your SQL Server (SQLEXPRESS) service it should work.
see the image:
Make sure both drive have the same partition - ( like FAT or NTFS, preferably NTFS ) also make sure he NETWORK SERVICE account, has the access.
Database rebuild fixed it for me as well. Also had to restore the old database from backup as it got corrupted during power outage...
The copy master.mdf procedure did not work for me.
i had the same problem before
the error code 3417 : the SQL SERVER cannot start the master database,
without master db SQL SERVER can't start
MSSQLSERVER_3417
The master database records all the system-level information for a SQL Server system. This includes instance-wide metadata such as logon accounts, endpoints, linked servers, and system configuration settings. In SQL Server, system objects are no longer stored in the master database; instead, they are stored in the Resource database. Also, master is the database that records the existence of all other databases and the location of those database files and records the initialization information for SQL Server. Therefore, SQL Server cannot start if the master database is unavailable
MSDN Master DB
so you need to reconfigure all settings after restoring master db
solutions
replace master mdf and ldf files with the same files from another instance of sql Server as long as its the same version reference
Rebuild System Databases refrence
reinstall sql server
I copied a master.mdf und mastlog.ldf from another Computer (luckily, we have a lot of Clients with the same configuration, otherwise template data would be perhaps necessary). I backed up the damaged master.mdf and mastlog.mdf. After that I replaced the bad ones with the ones from another Computer. And it worked. I needed to start the MSSQLSERVER Service of course. But, after that I had Problem that the user was already existing but orphaned (error code 15023), I executed the query
USE Database_name
EXEC sp_change_users_login 'Auto_Fix', 'username'
after that, everything was working smoothly. Hope this helps you and many thanks for this thread, saved me :)
Just rename the current ErrorLog to any other name like Errorlog _Old and change any old Log file to Error log file
try to start the SQL server services.. That's it. it will work..
Sql server error log file got corrupted. that is why it gives the problem even when you have all permissions.. when you delete it. new file will be generated.
I encountered this issue after changing database location. And I solved it by moving system databases back to their default locations. Although I will recommend not to move system databases like master and model to some other location. But if you want then you can refer to this article: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/relational-databases/databases/move-system-databases?view=sql-server-2017
Re-entering credentials will help to start the services:
Start > Services
Right click on SQL Sever > Properties
Log On
Re-enter credentials and apply
Start the services now
The reason behind getting this Error Code : 3417 may be as follows:
One cause may be due to the Network account for the Data folder in
Program files.
The other reason may be because of some Windows
settings changed somehow.
Example: If for some reasons you have moved this folder (Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL11.MSSQLSERVER\MSSQL) to another location then returned it to the same location. So, though it was returned to the same location the server may stop working and show error code 3417 when trying to start it again.
How To Fix SQL Error 3417
Go to "C:Program Files Microsoft SQLServerMSSQL.1MSSqLData"
Security/Permission settings
Network Service Account
Add a Network Service account
Then again check all
As stated here, you can try this third party tool as well.
A few times now, I've experienced various instances MS SQL Server to fail with this error after a Windows update. Most of the quick fixes above did not work for me.
What did:
copy all production databases over to some safe place
remove everything SQL Server via add/remove programs
get the latest SQL Server Express or Dev & install it
move the databases over to their home and reattach them.
For me, this was the fastest solution. Trying to find the cause of the error and fixing it is an afternoon of googling misty error messages. But YMMV.
In my case problem was about evaluation period expiration. I also went through this thread of StackOverFlow.You can investigate your problem by going to Event Viewer --> Windows Log (Application) and then search for your error id. For Step by Step guide to view error id in event viewer visit this...
The snapshot says is it all - I used to be able to attach a database, but after i detached today then tried to attach, i kept getting this error:
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Error 5 means Access Denied. The account running SQL Server has no access to the file GMATech.mdf. Grant the necessary rights:
cacls "c:\Program...\GMATech.mdf" /E /G SQLServerMSSQLUser$<hostname>$<instancename>:F
where hostname is the name of the mahcine running SQL and instancename is the name of the SQL instance (MSSQLSERVER for default instance).