SQL Server - An error occurred while executing batch. Error message is: The directory name is invalid

Question

Our database server had run out of disk space, after freeing up some disk space any query run in sql server management studio, with the results sent to grid view, resulted i

Answer 1

Received the message:

SQL Server - An error occurred while executing batch. Error message is: The directory name is invalid

When trying to execute a query in Management Studio after deleting temp files from c:\documents and settings\administrator\local settings\temp

Resolved when logging out of server session and back in again.

This resolution fixes this error on the following environments:

• Windows Server 2003
• Windows Server 2008
• Windows Server 2012
• Sql Server 2005
• Sql Server 2008
• Sql Server 2008 R2
• Sql Server 2012
• Sql Server 2014
• Sql Server 2016