Comments on: Sharepoint and SQL Server error 18456 (Severity: 14, State: 16)

By: Mai Omar

Mai Omar — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 12:08:55 +0000

thanks…. it worked here too

By: Santiago Aulestia

Santiago Aulestia — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 14:54:37 +0000

You did help me! I had this problem and I was not finding any reason why…
Well thanks to our “Delete SSP” process in MOSS!

By: Andy G

Andy G — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 12:42:36 +0000

Great addition to this post Peter. Saved me hours of head scratching!

By: Doug Lubey of Louisiana

Doug Lubey of Louisiana — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 17:27:21 +0000

Thanks, I really appreciate the help…..I have had the same problem for awhile.

search reference:
[298] SQLServer Error: 4060, Cannot open database
sql error logs [298] SQLServer Error 18456, Login failed for user

By: helge lehmann

helge lehmann — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 06:51:47 +0000

Thx a lot man!

By: Colin Cochrane

Colin Cochrane — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 03:43:29 +0000

Thanks so much! This has been a thorn in my side for about a week now.

By: Brian Parker

Brian Parker — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 17:54:21 +0000

Holy Cow! Thanks Pete! My SQL log has been generating that error every 60 seconds for the last NINE MONTHS!!! What a relief to have that cleaned up!

By: Chadd Warwick

Chadd Warwick — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 13:26:29 +0000

Thank you so much for the help!! I found the error the other day and with a quick Google search you have saved me a lot of time.

By: Yoong

Yoong — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 04:55:09 +0000

Peter Johnson and Jaap Steinvoorte thanks so much for this, it’s been a week of me hunting for a solution but this is the one! Many thanks guys! I’m sure so many ppl will be appreciative of this solution….it surely helped me!!

THANKS GUYS!

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 13:56:23 +0000

Peter Johnson, I was pulling my hair. Your simple solution (disable xxxxxxxxxx_job_deleteexpiredsessions) resolved my issue. THANK YOU !!