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when troubleshooting performance issues, are not these three columns in sysprocesses referred to/checked?

most of the articles I find on the subject on the net, seem to refer to various DMVs, but not these columns or even the sysprocesses table.

any particular reason why?

appreciate the feedback.

My SQL Server instance on my laptop was working fine.  After bringing my laptop home last weekend and connecting through my work's VPN and then bringing it back to work on Monday, it now cannot start the SQL Server service.  It did work fine at my home through the VPN.

The SQL Server Error log shows this:

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2014-07-01 09:11:28.31 Server      Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 (SP2) - 10.50.4000.0 (X64) 
Jun 28 2012 08:36:30 
Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation
Developer Edition (64-bit) on Windows NT 6.1 <X64> (Build 7601: Service Pack 1)

2014-07-01 09:11:28.31 Server      (c) Microsoft Corporation.
2014-07-01 09:11:28.31 Server      All rights reserved.
2014-07-01 09:11:28.31 Server      Server process ID is 11076.
2014-07-01 09:11:28.31 Server      System Manufacturer: 'LENOVO', System Model: '43192PU'.
2014-07-01 09:11:28.31 Server      Authentication mode is MIXED.
2014-07-01 09:11:28.31 Server      Logging SQL Server messages in file 'C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL10_50.MSSQLSERVER\MSSQL\Log\ERRORLOG'.
2014-07-01 09:11:28.31 Server      This instance of SQL Server last reported using a process ID of 9220 at 7/1/2014 9:11:12 AM (local) 7/1/2014 1:11:12 PM (UTC). This is an informational message only; no user action is required.
2014-07-01 09:11:28.31 Server      Registry startup parameters: 
-d C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL10_50.MSSQLSERVER\MSSQL\DATA\master.mdf
-e C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL10_50.MSSQLSERVER\MSSQL\Log\ERRORLOG
-l C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL10_50.MSSQLSERVER\MSSQL\DATA\mastlog.ldf
2014-07-01 09:11:28.31 Server      SQL Server is starting at normal priority base (=7). This is an informational message only. No user action is required.
2014-07-01 09:11:28.31 Server      Detected 8 CPUs. This is an informational message; no user action is required.
2014-07-01 09:11:28.32 Server      Cannot use Large Page Extensions:  lock memory privilege was not granted.
2014-07-01 09:11:28.35 Server      Using dynamic lock allocation.  Initial allocation of 2500 Lock blocks and 5000 Lock Owner blocks per node.  This is an informational message only.  No user action is required.
2014-07-01 09:11:28.37 Server      Node configuration: node 0: CPU mask: 0x00000000000000ff:0 Active CPU mask: 0x00000000000000ff:0. This message provides a description of the NUMA configuration for this computer. This is an informational message only. No user action is required.
2014-07-01 09:11:28.39 spid6s      Starting up database 'master'.
2014-07-01 09:11:28.41 spid6s      2 transactions rolled forward in database 'master' (1). This is an informational message only. No user action is required.
2014-07-01 09:11:28.41 spid6s      0 transactions rolled back in database 'master' (1). This is an informational message only. No user action is required.
2014-07-01 09:11:28.41 spid6s      Recovery is writing a checkpoint in database 'master' (1). This is an informational message only. No user action is required.
2014-07-01 09:11:28.42 spid6s      Resource governor reconfiguration succeeded.
2014-07-01 09:11:28.42 spid6s      SQL Server Audit is starting the audits. This is an informational message. No user action is required.
2014-07-01 09:11:28.42 spid6s      SQL Server Audit has started the audits. This is an informational message. No user action is required.
2014-07-01 09:11:28.43 spid6s      FILESTREAM: effective level = 0, configured level = 0, file system access share name = 'MSSQLSERVER'.
2014-07-01 09:11:28.43 spid6s      SQL Trace ID 1 was started by login "sa".
2014-07-01 09:11:28.43 spid6s      Starting up database 'mssqlsystemresource'.
2014-07-01 09:11:28.44 spid6s      The resource database build version is 10.50.4000. This is an informational message only. No user action is required.
2014-07-01 09:11:28.46 spid11s     Starting up database 'model'.
2014-07-01 09:11:28.46 spid6s      Server name is 'MYCOMPUTER'. This is an informational message only. No user action is required.
2014-07-01 09:11:28.47 Server      Error: 17190, Severity: 16, State: 1.
2014-07-01 09:11:28.47 Server      Initializing the FallBack certificate failed with error code: 1, state: 1, error number: -2146893802.
2014-07-01 09:11:28.47 Server      Unable to initialize SSL encryption because a valid certificate could not be found, and it is not possible to create a self-signed certificate.
2014-07-01 09:11:28.47 Server      Error: 17182, Severity: 16, State: 1.
2014-07-01 09:11:28.47 Server      TDSSNIClient initialization failed with error 0x80092004, status code 0x80. Reason: Unable to initialize SSL support. Cannot find object or property.

2014-07-01 09:11:28.47 Server      Error: 17182, Severity: 16, State: 1.
2014-07-01 09:11:28.47 Server      TDSSNIClient initialization failed with error 0x80092004, status code 0x1. Reason: Initialization failed with an infrastructure error. Check for previous errors. Cannot find object or property.

2014-07-01 09:11:28.47 Server      Error: 17826, Severity: 18, State: 3.
2014-07-01 09:11:28.47 Server      Could not start the network library because of an internal error in the network library. To determine the cause, review the errors immediately preceding this one in the error log.
2014-07-01 09:11:28.47 Server      Error: 17120, Severity: 16, State: 1.
2014-07-01 09:11:28.47 Server      SQL Server could not spawn FRunCM thread. Check the SQL Server error log and the Windows event logs for information about possible related problems.
2014-07-01 09:11:28.48 spid11s     Clearing tempdb database.

***********************************************************************************

I have tried logging on to Windows as a different user.

I have tried changing the account that SQL Server service uses to Log on from Network Service to Local System or Local Service but I get the error: "Cannot find object or property."

Also, I noticed when I opened up Internet Explorer which the home page is Google, it could not connect, but did connect to other websites.

Any ideas what may have happened to my laptop?

Thanks for your help,

Fred

Fred Schmid

I am using sql 2008 R2 SE. Currently I have separated out our reports databases that are being used for internal purpose. However these report databases are logshipped secondary databases being hosted on secondary server. The reason I separated reports databases from the transactional databases is I didnt wanted the queries being used for reports causing blocking and deadlocks with queries being used by our apps.

However due to growth in data the queries that I used in the rdl files are taking longer time to run. So some reports are taking very long time to load and output the results. And since I am querying against the standby secondary database I cannot add indexes. But the query execution plan suggests that adding some indexes would improve the performance by almost 90%. If I add these indexes to the primary database then its degrading performance as its causing slowness in the applications. And the applications and the reports built are using different queries.

I want to take experts opinions on how to implement a better strategy for reports in this scenario. Experts please share your valuable thoughts.

So, i change to WIndow Authentication mode and login , then from there i change the "sa" password to the original value. Now i login again with the password using SQL authentication and it works.

 But my question is - Why the password will auto change after sometime? does it relate to sticter security policy in SQL SERVER 2012?

Please advice.

Hi

I would like to know that, If I shrink my DB and started rebuilding indexes how much time it would require to rebuild a DB of size 1 GB.

Thanks ...

Manish

We are configuration the transaction replication from production to DR site, while I am trying to perform the DML [update] operation in publication database, DML [update] operation not allowing.

Note: How we can perform DML [update]  operation in publication database. 

Hi All,

In one of our production server Reindexing job was failed . I had checked SQLServer log at that time the error is

Error: 701, Severity: 17, State: 123 There is insufficient system memory to run this query.

Can anyone suggest about this issue to resolve.

Date        7/20/2014 2:05:19 AM
Log        Job History (maint_shrinkdatabase_reindex)

Step ID        4
Server        SYDTMS05
Job Name        maint_shrinkdatabase_reindex
Step Name        reindex_AUV_Staging_TMS
Duration        00:07:21
Sql Severity        17
Sql Message ID        3621
Operator Emailed        
Operator Net sent        
Operator Paged        
Retries Attempted        0

Message
Executed as user: SCHLOGAU\sqladmin. ...STATE 01000] (Message 0)  DBCC DBREINDEX ("dbo.Consignment", IDX_Consignment_Job_No,90) WITH NO_INFOMSGS [SQLSTATE 01000] (Message 0)  DBCC DBREINDEX ("dbo.Consignment", IDX_Consignment_Processed_Flag,90) WITH NO_INFOMSGS [SQLSTATE 01000] (Message 0)  DBCC DBREINDEX ("dbo.Consignment", IDX_Consignment_Processed_Time,90) WITH NO_INFOMSGS [SQLSTATE 01000] (Message 0)  DBCC DBREINDEX ("dbo.Consignment", IDX_Consignment_JobNo_Country_LastDate,90) WITH NO_INFOMSGS [SQLSTATE 01000] (Message 0)  DBCC DBREINDEX ("dbo.AMSImage", NONCLUSTERED_ON_AMSImage_Processed_Flag,90) WITH NO_INFOMSGS [SQLSTATE 01000] (Message 0)  DBCC DBREINDEX ("dbo.AMSImage", NONCLUSTERED_ON_AMS_TMSDocs_Processed_Data_IMG_PATH,90) WITH NO_INFOMSGS [SQLSTATE 01000] (Message 0)  DBCC DBREINDEX ("dbo.AMSImage", NONCLUSTERED_ON_AMS_TMSDocs_Processed_Data_REF_NAME,90) WITH NO_INFOMSGS [SQLSTATE 01000] (Message 0)  DBCC DBREINDEX ("dbo.AMSImage", NONCLUSTERED_ON_AMS_TMSDocs_Processed_Data...  The step failed.

hii

When I'm Starting the SQL Server Services its giving erroer like

"Windows could not start the SQL Server (SQLEXPRESS) service on local computer. Error Code 3417."

Is there any issue related with ldf file.?

if so please give solution to it.

waitng for your reply.

With Regards, CharanTeja.

Hi All,<o:p></o:p>

I have a huge table near about 117088326 Records and the space usage is as below<o:p></o:p>

Data: 57GB 
Index: 84GB<o:p></o:p>

Obviously the query which I execute against it will be somewhat solve because of large table 
can anyone suggest solution on it <o:p></o:p>

Note: I am using SQL Server 2008 r2 Standard Edition (It means no table Partitioning)<o:p></o:p>

Hi All,

When I randomly checking the temp files I noticed that the.mdf file of temp DB is not in use since the 6 .ndf files were created.

There are 6 CPUs and 6 .ndf files created for one of each. Is it stopping SQL Server not to use the primary data file. Any idea?

Thanks

Swapna

I have had no end of problems starting my MS SQL Server 2008 r2 Express.

My database program (Sage ACT! Pro 2011) starts fine. However when it attempts to start my default database, I get the following error message:

When I start my database within my application software (ACT Pro 2011) , I get the following error:

I am not abler to open any database with in ACT 2011. This error tells me that I must manually start SQL Server. I am running Windows 7 Pro, SP1. So I go to Services, and right click on SQL Server (ACT7) and click start and get the following error:

I have contacted Swiftpage and spent 2 hours on the phone with their technical support. They manually (via remote desktop connection) deleted ACT Pro 2011 and manually deleted SQL Server 2008 r2 Express (in registry and all files and folders).

I decided to upgrade, so ACT Pro v16 was installed. SQL Server still would not start automatically or manually. The ACT technical support person, after two very long hours said: that it is not an ACT problem, that I would need to turn to Microsoft for a resolution as to why SQL Server will not start, and how to remedy this issue.

I hope someone can offer help or point me in the direction to get this very bad problem resolved. I cannot work without my CRM! can someone help?

Thanks!

Is there anything I can do for a OLEDB wait type?  

After restarting my instance, I started a DBCC checkdb on a 200 GB database that uses the spatial data type.  A couple of tables have 250 million rows.  There are no indexes on computed columns or filtered indexes.  It's been running about 2 hours and the percent complete is about 2%.  The estimated completion date (4 days from now) has been increasing by about and hour a minute.  It might be weeks before it completes.  (I'm using a db restored on my desktop - 6-core Zeon, 16 GB, and 2 SSDs - with SQL 2012 Developer SP2.  I enabled trace flags 2562 and 2549 enabled.  Compatibility on the db was changed to 2012 from 2008.) 

I looked at the wait stats and see the OLEDB wait type at almost 100%.  When I look at the activity monitor "Resource Waits", the only wait I see is Network IO - about 1 sec per sec.  "Data File IO" is at 0.0 MB/sec with response times normally at 0 ms, but can be 2 ms from time to time.  CPU use is about 10%.  My machine feels idle. 

An AVG scan recently started and just finish.  It did not seem to slow anything down or change the waits.  But that makes me wonder.  Can a real-time virus scanner be a source of the OLEDB waits?  Would it also show up as network io wait? 

Any advice that can help me find the bottleneck would be appreciated.  It would great if I could move the bottleneck to CPU or disk. 

Thanks.

Randy in Marin

Hi All,

One of my Database is very big in Size and used space is very less. What will happen when I Shink the DB file? I wanted to know what is the max required size of the Database? If I shrink the file will it released the unused space to disk and the total size reduced?

Swapna

I using sql server 2012 but my compatibility level can't up to 110 and I can't use LAG and LEAD recognized built-in function 

Please, Help my :( 

this is my pic of problem 

http://up.ssc.vn/images/703Screenshot_143_.png

Hello everyone,

Now many our sql server 2008 r2 sp1 servers start to report errors when daily full database backup job starts:

2014-07-11 01:19:04.980spid59sDatabase mirroring is inactive for database 'XXXX'. This is an informational message only. No user action is required.

2014-07-11 01:19:45.700 spid2346
Error: 18056, Severity: 20, State: 29.
2014-07-11 01:19:45.700 spid2346
The client was unable to reuse a session with SPID 2346, which had been reset for connection pooling. The failure ID is 29. This error may have been caused by an earlier operation failing. Check the error logs for failed operations immediately before this error message.

When i want to connect to one of servers when a big database is being backuped fully using management studio ,i feel a long time delay. But at the that time , cpu is low , memory related performance counters are normal.
So i wonder if there are some system resource contention when database full backup happens ,and this contention impact login progress.

Our databases are all configured for database mirroring, and we use litespeed software to backup database.

I have no idea on how to troubleshoot this problem ,and it seems profiler and  new extended event have no events about this. So any advice or some tools/ways to deep troubleshooting ?

Many thanks. 

Hi All,

I would like to know the impact of changing the endpoints when databases are in synchronized status?

Please help me on this

while calculating database size will it necessary to consider filestream filegroup size??

sp_spaceused stored procedure returns size of database but it consider only data and log files. 

my question is : can we consider filestream filegroup size while calculating database size or is there any other way which already consider filestream filegroup size??

Dear all,

Is there any method or scripts to reorganize the whole database(instead of table indexes) for SQL 2005? Thx a lot

Thanks and regards,

Wallace

Hi Experrts,

we are receiving below error since 1 week, 

The below error logging in SQL AGENT LOG.

[298] SQLServer Error: 258, Unable to complete login process due to delay in login response [SQLSTATE 08001]

Thanks in advance.