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Which job is running?

hurricaneDBA

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January 10, 2018 at 4:45 am

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Dear Everyone
Happy new year and i hope everyone is doing great
On one of our production databases version :
Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 (RTM) - 10.50.1600.1 (X64)   Apr 2 2010 15:48:46   Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation Standard Edition (64-bit) on Windows NT 6.1 <X64> (Build 7601: Service Pack 1) (Hypervisor)
I keep getting the error below every minute even after disabling all jobs in the SQL Server Agent job list
Date  1/10/2018 12:52:11 PM
Log  SQL Server (Current - 1/10/2018 12:35:00 PM)
Source  Logon
Message
Login failed for user 'DOMAIN\userx'. Reason: Failed to open the explicitly specified database. [CLIENT: <local machine>]
I checked the mappings and this user is mapped to master and msdb but nothing else
What could be causing it to generate this error every minute?
have a good day
Hurricane

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Joe Torre SSChampion Points: 10248 More actions · Answer 1

Does the login have connect on it's default database or the database specified in the connection string it's using?

Sue_H SSC Guru Points: 90860 More actions · Answer 2

hurricaneDBA - Wednesday, January 10, 2018 4:45 AM
Dear Everyone
Happy new year and i hope everyone is doing great
On one of our production databases version :
Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 (RTM) - 10.50.1600.1 (X64)   Apr 2 2010 15:48:46   Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation Standard Edition (64-bit) on Windows NT 6.1 <X64> (Build 7601: Service Pack 1) (Hypervisor)
I keep getting the error below every minute even after disabling all jobs in the SQL Server Agent job list
Date  1/10/2018 12:52:11 PM
Log  SQL Server (Current - 1/10/2018 12:35:00 PM)
Source  Logon
Message
Login failed for user 'DOMAIN\userx'. Reason: Failed to open the explicitly specified database. [CLIENT: <local machine>]
I checked the mappings and this user is mapped to master and msdb but nothing else
What could be causing it to generate this error every minute?
have a good day
Hurricane

Do you have any monitoring setup?
If it's coming from the server itself, look for anything setup on that server which would be logging in. You'd also want to consider any third party agents installed on that server that access SQL Server.

Sue

RandomStream Hall of Fame Points: 3735 More actions · Answer 3

Sue_H - Wednesday, January 10, 2018 1:45 PM
hurricaneDBA - Wednesday, January 10, 2018 4:45 AM
Dear Everyone
Happy new year and i hope everyone is doing great
On one of our production databases version :
Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 (RTM) - 10.50.1600.1 (X64)   Apr 2 2010 15:48:46   Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation Standard Edition (64-bit) on Windows NT 6.1 <X64> (Build 7601: Service Pack 1) (Hypervisor)
I keep getting the error below every minute even after disabling all jobs in the SQL Server Agent job list
Date  1/10/2018 12:52:11 PM
Log  SQL Server (Current - 1/10/2018 12:35:00 PM)
Source  Logon
Message
Login failed for user 'DOMAIN\userx'. Reason: Failed to open the explicitly specified database. [CLIENT: <local machine>]
I checked the mappings and this user is mapped to master and msdb but nothing else
What could be causing it to generate this error every minute?
have a good day
Hurricane
Do you have any monitoring setup?
If it's coming from the server itself, look for anything setup on that server which would be logging in. You'd also want to consider any third party agents installed on that server that access SQL Server.
Sue

What other databases do you have on this server and are they accessible? In a mirrored database scenario, an application can be configured to use a connections string where a failover is defined. It is possible that the application is doing connectivity test against principal and mirror. In that case, you will see this type of message on the mirror server.

Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1003888 More actions · Answer 4

Does someone have a Windows job scheduled? Do you have a system "monitor" piece of software somewhere that's trying to login? Also, you need to figure out who "userx" is. Someone may be trying to tap your machine in a slow manner so as to not raise suspicions or someone's desktop box has some piece of software that regularly hits your database. It might be something like RedGate Source control or, like I said earlier, some piece of monitoring software. If you look at the SQL Server log, you might be able to get more info to try to trace it to the machine.

--Jeff Moden

RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row.
First step towards the paradigm shift of writing Set Based code:
________Stop thinking about what you want to do to a ROW... think, instead, of what you want to do to a COLUMN.

Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.

Helpful Links:
How to post code problems
How to Post Performance Problems
Create a Tally Function (fnTally)

hurricaneDBA SSCertifiable Points: 5027 More actions · Answer 5

Thanks everyone for the help
It turns out that i moved the Reporting Services Database to another server and the services was still running so it was calling for the domain user i had initiallly initializes RS with.
Upon disabling the windows service the error stopped generating

thank you
Have a great week
Kal