Crystal Log in to SQL Server fails

I have 12 years of working with Crystal Reports and have never seen this error. Version of Crystal is 2008 and the data is in SQL Server. The database connection is OLEDB and the report is connecting to the database using the sa account. The sa account has full rights to the database.
The report was written and was working great with no issues.
Recently it only works about 20% of the time. The other 80% of the time this error occurs after entering the user sa login and password
Login failed
Details : ADO Error Code 0X800004005
Source: Microsofr OLE BD Provider for SQL Server
Description : [DBNETLIB][Connection Open
(SEC Create Credentials()).]SSL Security error.
SQL State:08001
Native Error : 18 [Database Vendor Code :18]
When I am in a period of time when this error is showing I cannot create ans ODBC connection either. BUT when the report is running fine I can create the ODBC.
Any ideas and help as to what is going on there would be greatly appreciated.

just a thought but the database does not go offline ( for backup or any other reason) overnight
and your reports happen overnight.
also if OLE and ODBC both stop I assume this is more of a SQl server issue than CR

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http://www.gotodba.com/install-and-configure-db-link-to-sql-server-database-in-linux.html
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Step 1
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CA Forum: General
Our department has always worked with and we love Crystal Reports. Unfortunately, certain reports now need to be converted to Microsoft SQL Server 2005 reporting services which from what I read I think they are *.rdl reports. Does Crystal reports have any way around this? I would have to learn this other tool when I'm already so happy with Crystal. I was thinking If I could just code the report in crystal and export it in a specific format that would be compatible Microsoft, the problem would be solved.
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Post Author: bettername
CA Forum: General
Ditto!
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Yes, thanks Mike.
Ran into a brick wall troubleshooting, have developers and project managers doing what seems to be an ugly dance (think that is what they are doing with the up and down jumping movements).
With no responses to my posting here, and my dislike of bad dancing, went the SR route instead.
Appreciate you looking at the posting though. Makes me feel less alone in a world of bad dancers...

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Hardware
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Cluster Storage
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3. Then I made a Windows Cluster on Node1 using these two nodes. I gave the name and IP to this cluster which I wrote above i.e. cluster.domain.local 192.168.1.12
4. Cluster was created and boths nodes are UP.
Now I want to ask a question here. Is it best practice to perform the above operation using DOMAIN ADMIN? Or if I use a standard domain user account with local admin rights, will it work? If not then exactly what rights are required to perform this operation.
5. Then I installed "Application Server" role on both Node1 and Node2 and also added "Distributed Transaction" feature
6. Then I right clicked on Windows Cluster I created and added a new role/feature which is "DTC"
7. I gave it the same name which I wrote above i.e. msdtc.domain.local 192.168.1.13
8. MSDTC was created but when it tried to UP its service, it threw an error. Upon investigation it turns out the Windows Cluster cluster.domain.local doesn't have proper rights to created some objects in AD. I didn't know what rights to give so I gave it full
permission and after that when I created MSDTC again, the service went up fine.
So I want to know what rights does cluster.domain.com require to make MSDTC?
Am I doing good so far?

Hello,
>>Then I made a Windows Cluster on Node1 using these two nodes. I gave the name and IP to this cluster which I wrote above i.e. cluster.domain.local 192.168.1.10
Hello I suppose this IP was physical node IP windows cluster IP was 192.168.1.12 I suppose yo must have given this IP as windows cluster IP.10 and 11 are physical nodes in Cluster but 12 is Cluster IP .Correct me if I am wrong.
Did you do failover and failback to check whether cluster is configured correctly or not ,If not please do it .
>>Then I ran fail over validation wizard on Node1 adding both nodes which went fine (there were some warnings)
Please remove warnings also ,it might cause issue.Not sure its correct every time but make sure cluster validation should be free of error and warning.
>>Now I want to ask a question here. Is it best practice to perform the above operation using DOMAIN ADMIN?
You can do it with domain admin account as this is required to create Cluster NAme object(CNO) in domain and local account might not have that right so I would say its ok.
>>I gave it the same name which I wrote above i.e. msdtc.domain.local
192.168.1.11
again this IP is node 2 IP how can you give it to MSDTC.Use below link for reference
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/cindygross/archive/2009/02/22/how-to-configure-dtc-for-sql-server-in-a-windows-2008-cluster.aspx
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Drop Transation Log Files in SQL server

Hi friends,
I am useing sql server 2005 , in my databse transation log file is increased up to 20 GB ,so i am adding one more transation file , so i want delete pervious unused transation log file,so what is the procedure for drop the transation log file from my databse any one can help me....
Thanks,
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Hi,
Check SAP Note 363018
also check MSSQL Transaction Log full
Re: space problem
regards,
kaushal

Tansaction Log File of SQL Server

Dear Guys,
We have implemented ECC 6.0 on Windows 2003 Server / MS SQL 2005 platform. For backup purpose we have bought Tivoli. Some reason we cant backup of Database from DB13. Our Transaction log file is goin to increase, when after taking the backup of Transaction log, I shrink the log file but size of log file never decrease. So size of log file increase and free size on disk decrease. Second issue is, Can I shirnk the log file when SAP instance run ...??
So help me out in this 2 issues.
Thanks & Regards,
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Hi,
The log space is usually huge after a fresh install. You can use the following script to shrink the log file. Make sure you take a full backup of the database before you run. If you running in production system make sure you run during the scheduled downtime after a full backup.
1) BACKUP LOG <DB_NAME> TO [<DEVICE_NAME>] WITH NOFORMAT, NOINIT,
NAME = N'<DESCRIPTION>', SKIP, NOREWIND, NOUNLOAD, STATS = 10 --backup transaction log to a backup device
GO
2) USE <DB_NAME> --switch to the database
GO
3) DBCC SHRINKFILE (N'<LOGICAL_LOG_FILE_NAME>' , 2024) --shrink the file to 2gb (2024). use sp_helpdb to find out the logical file name
GO
4) sp_helpdb <SID> --view the new size
go
5) dbcc loginfo (<SID>) -- a status of 2 means transaction is dirty.
Repeat steps 1 thru 5 until log size shrinks to your desired size.
The step 3 value of "2024" is 2gb which tries to shrink the log file to 2MB. But it is not guaranteed. That is why you have to run it multiple times.
The step 5 displays output of the transactions in the log file. The status of "2" means it is dirty. If you see this value at the end of result set then there is less chance of shrinking the log file. if you see the value of "2" in the middle of the result set then there is likely chance of shrinking the file. "DBCC LOGINFO" is an undocumented command in SQL Server. But it is a favourite command of all DBAs'.
I hope this helps.
RT
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