Thomas Rushton reproduces an error state in SQL Server:
A question asked on one of the forums today wasn’t easily answerable by Googling. Summary of the question “I have error 18456 State 73 – why?”
Google seemed remarkably quiet on the subject of that particular state code. Even Aaron Bertrand’s list of causes of state codes for SQL Server error 18456 missed this one.
However, some searching did find a link to what appears to be some in-depth VMWare VSAN training documentation that includes that error in some logging information, which made me wonder if it was related to the error 18456 state 38 that followed.
Read on for more details.