May | 2018 | SQL with Manoj

SQL Job creation failing (having VBScript step) after SQL Server 2016/2017 upgrade

May 21, 2018 Leave a comment

Yesterday my friend pinged me and told that he is facing some issues while executing a SQL Job DDL script. They had upgraded their SQL Server version from 2008 to 2016, and while creating SQL Jobs they were facing below error:

Msg 14234, Level 16, State 1, Procedure sp_verify_subsystem, Line 28 [Batch Start Line 2]
The specified ‘@subsystem’ is invalid (valid values are returned by sp_enum_sqlagent_subsystems).

I checked the code and on inquiring for a moment I saw that one of the SQL Job step was configured for a VB Script, as shown below:

...
EXEC @ReturnCode = msdb.dbo.sp_add_jobstep 
@job_id=@jobId, 
@step_name=N'xyz VBScript', 
@step_id=3, 
@cmdexec_success_code=0, 
@on_success_action=4, 
@on_success_step_id=0, 
@on_fail_action=5, 
@on_fail_step_id=0, 
@retry_attempts=0, 
@retry_interval=0, 
@os_run_priority=0, 
@subsystem=N'ActiveScripting', 
...

On quickly checking on net I came to know that this feature has been discontinued and should not be used.

** Important *\* This feature will be removed in a future version of Microsoft SQL Server. Avoid using this feature in new development work, and plan to modify applications that currently use this feature.
MS BoL link

This MS BoL link also mentions about the discontinued feature:

ActiveX subsytem is discontinued. Use command line or PowerShell scripts instead.

Categories: SQL Errors, SQL Server Upgrade Tags: SQL Job VBScript, subsystem ActiveScripting

SQL Server 2017 Setup error – VS Shell installation has failed with exit code 1638

May 14, 2018 Leave a comment

Today while installing SQL Server 2017 on my PC I got this popup on the Installation Progress tab. Earlier I had installed SQL Server 2017 but had to uninstall it for some reason. Now today while re-installing it I was getting this error.

TITLE: Microsoft SQL Server 2017 Setup
——————————
The following error has occurred:

VS Shell installation has failed with exit code 1638.

——————————
BUTTONS: OK
——————————

… and once you click OK, the installation resumes, but ends in error again, with following error details:

Error details:
§ Error installing Microsoft Visual C++ 2015 Redistributable
VS Shell installation has failed with exit code 1638.
Error code: 1638
Log file: C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\140\Setup Bootstrap\Log\20180824_225215\VCRuntime140_x64_Cpu64_1.log
Visit https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink?LinkId=20476&ProdName=Microsoft+SQL+Server&EvtSrc=setup.rll&EvtID=50000 &ProdVer=14.0.1000.169&EvtType=VCRuntime140_x64%40Install%400×1638 to get help on troubleshooting.

Resolution:

– As per the second error, the SQL Server setup tries to install Microsoft Visual C++ 2015 Redistributable, but as I already have Visual Studio 2017 installed, thus it is failing to install a previous version of VC++, so you need to:
   1. Uninstall Visual Studio 2017.
   2. Install SQL Server 2017
   3. Install Visual Studio 2017 back again.

– Or, rather than uninstalling whole VS 2017, you can simply:
   1. Uninstall the VC++ 2017 Redistributable
   2. Install SQL Server 2017
   3. Install the VC++ 2017 Redistributable (download: x86, x64)