TF400013: An unexpected database error occurred. Contact your Team Foundation Server administrator. (Code: 208)TFS 2012

Question

Hi

I see the below error message which is very  strange seen only in single team project under a Project Collection, whenever i click on the Work tab, also seen on the entire web page(basically for the workitems)

TFS version: TFS 2012.(Update 3)

Database: SQL server 2008 R2

TF400013: An unexpected database error occurred. Contact your Team Foundation Server administrator. (Code: 208)

Any advice please

Thanks,

Manio

Answer 1

Hi Manio,

Thanks for your post.

Is there any difference between this particular team project and other team projects?

Have you ever deleted a team project?

What's the edition of VS you are using?

According to this feedback, which mentioned the issue has been fixed by a upgrade. Please try to upgrade your TFS 2012 Update 3 to TFS 2012 Update 4, and also upgrade your VS to VS 2012 Update 4.

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Answer 2

Hi,

The issue occurs to only a particular team project under a Project Collection other team projects under the same collection looks fine.

Recently i tried creating a new Team Project in the same Project collection but due to some other reason project creation failed and changes were roll backed  by itself soon after this i started getting the above error for a team Project.

Again i tried the team Project creation(With Same name for the team project as previously which failed) under same collection  and this time it succeeded , soon after this the above error disappeared, any advice for this behavior please?

TFS version: TFS2012 with Update3

VS Version: VS 2012 Ultimate Update 3

Thanks,

Manish

Answer 3

Hi Manish,

Did you mean the error has gone after creating a successful team project?

Have you clean the cache files? Maybe the cache files did the trick.

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Answer 4

Yes the error disappeared after  creating a successful  team project  under same collection strange behavior have you seen this kind?

No i didn't clean any cache files.

After  searching few more blogs i found  saying this is a bug  with TFS 2012 update3 and therefore should be upgraded to update 4. Read More:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2872520

This Update 4 fixes many bugs one of them is what we have seen so far.

• When you delete a team project, you may receive the following error message when you perform create, read, update and delete operations for workitems:

TF400013: An unexpected database error occurred. Contact your Team Foundation Server administrator. (Code: 208

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Thanks