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Hi,

I have set up an MSSQL query against one of our databases, it seems to connect to the DB OK but I get the following error:

"CRITICAL: Could not execute the query."

I've tried to search around this forum for this same error but I haven't located anything specifically the same, the details of my query are:

-H XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX --port 1433 --username XXX --password "XXX" --database XXXXX --query 'SELECT COUNT(*) from XXXXX..bax_taskq (NOLOCK) where status in ('u','p')' --result '0' --warning 2 --critical 5

From the command line I input the following in many different connotations but I always get the same message:

./check_mssql -H XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX -p 1433 -u XXX -P "XXX" -D XXXXX 'SELECT COUNT(*) from XXXXX..bax_taskq' -w 1 -c 5
OK: Connect time=0.095323 seconds.

Is there anything that I am doing wrong maybe? Any advice would be great!

Many thanks

I believe the use of single quotes in your query are causing the problem

Try changing the query to

Hi Scott,

I removed the where clause just to try and get closer to resolution and double-checked some permissions for the user. This pointed me to the direction of access as no manifestation of quotes around this query would work. It seems that the permissions to access this DB hadn't saved when I originally set it up, so I restored them and then set the query as follows and it tested OK:

--query "SELECT COUNT(*) from XXXXX..bax_taskq (NOLOCK) where status in ('u','p')" --result 0 --warning 2 --critical 5

Apologies for the confusion, access permissions it seems to be!

Many thanks

DB