Error - provider: Shared Memory Provider, error: 0 - No
process is on the other end of the pipe
"A mountain in labour and a mouse be result" .Sometimes it
happens in finding Root Couse. I faced the same when I was new in organization. Web application was throwing error something
like below …
And at the same time when I was trying to connect instance
was facing trouble with error like below…
Then I decided to check configuration manager, it was fine at all the required sub-services was running. TCP/IP was configured and running. But the error was still coming since 2 days..
It was also surprising because after re-start it was vanished for the day. I faced with the same error till a week.
Finally I decided to check error log on that server and configuration setup. I was new that’s why there was no admin access to me. So I asked to my senior to give me details of server of below query…
select * from sys.configurations
Result was look like below:-
configuration_id
|
name
|
value
|
minimum
|
maximum
|
101
|
recovery interval (min)
|
0
|
0
|
32767
|
102
|
allow updates
|
0
|
0
|
1
|
103
|
user connections
|
5
|
0
|
32767
|
xp_readerrorlog 0,1
Result was look like below
Could not connect because the maximum number of '5' user
connections has already been reached. The system administrator can use
sp_configure to increase the maximum value. The connection has been closed.
[CLIENT: <local machine>]
After getting this
error I decide to remove the user
connection limit with zero “0” . This time result was ok for the day. Finally Issue resolve. Then I monitored a week no any issue more……
The query which i was used to resolve was :-
sp_configure 'showadvanced options', 1