Server update crashes Mirroring Monitor Job

  • Has anyone else experienced failures in the SQL 2005 Job--"Database Mirroring Monitor Job"?

    This (built-in) job has been running reliably every minute, but after our Systems group applied some updates to the 2003 Server, the job continually fails with the error message  32038--"An internal error has occurrred in the database mirroring monitor".

    The updates included KB931836, the daylight savings revision, as well as these security updates:

    KB926436

    KB928255

    KB918118

    KB924667

    Luckily, the mirroring itself is working fine.  But I'd like to know how to get this monitoring job back on track.

    TIA

    Elliott

  • Check this out...

    http://forums.microsoft.com/TechNet/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=1151987&SiteID=17

     

    MohammedU
    Microsoft SQL Server MVP

  • Thanks.

     

    I checked it out.  Same error message, but apparently a different problem.  My mirroring is performing fine.  It's only the Mirroring Monitor Job that is failing ("internal error"), and the logs aren't telling me anything about it.

    Elliott

  • Update for general interest.

    The Job was failing because of a single test database which had been set up as a mirrored database, but became orphaned when the partner server was renamed. 

    It was not possible to drop or delete this test database until the command

    "Alter database <mydatabase> Set Partner Off" was issued.  That command was followed by "RESTORE database <mydatabase> with Recovery"

    This finally unblocked the mirror status of the orphan database and allowed the Job to run normally.

     

    Elliott

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