Hi All, 

We have MSDTC installed as a Clustered resource in SQL Server 2005 environment. I know MSDTC is used for cross-database and distributed transactions.

I wanted to know:
1. Even if there are no distributed transactions, I heard there is a known issue with SQL 2005 Database engine which enlists(makes use of) MSDTC. Is this true and when?

2. We are going to implement DB mirroring. What has to be considered with regards to how MSDTC is used in case of Disaster recovery? Will there be any transactions mismatch etc?

Thanks, 
Regards,

Mandar

Hello, everybody actually i want to count the same value of multiple row with same id.

Idclassname Value Para_id

1 carVersion Audi A4 1.8 TFSI Multitronic 1

3 mileage  Mileage1

8 communication  USB Compatibility 3

16 door Conventional door4

22 carVersion Audi A4 1.8 TFSI Multitronic 4

24 carVersion Audi A4 1.8 TFSI Multitronic 4

14 economy 2.13 lakhs 4

19 lock Child Safety Lock4

see the above table in the last column para_id repeated for example see the para_id 4 and classname for this is door, carversion, carversion.

From that i want to fire the query whose give the para_id=4 and and from the classname query count the which class is more repeated.

In about query output will be Para_id=4 and classname=carversion because carversion is repeated twise. Such query i want fire. If anybody know how to do this plz replay with query.

I have a job that runs on server A.  The job runs a package which access databases on both A and B.  There is a proxy user defined on server A.  Does it also need to be on B?

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Hi,

When i try to restore my bak file am getting below mentioned error...This shows am using different version of SSMS.....any one suggest how to update my SSMS with10.00.2531........

Thanks SABARINATHAN87

We have recovered from RAID5 server the SQL 2005 database, which are not attaching.

There are more than dozen databases under master.

Please help to resolve this problem.

SQL Server version 11.0.3128. I have an automated process (job, stored procedure) that inserts DMV data into database tables every half hour. It has run without incident for well over a month. On Nov. 14, the 19:20 run failed with 46 instances of "Violation of primary key constraint ... cannot insert duplicate key ..." into one of the tables. The key of the table is an identity, type integer, start 1 increment 1, values attempted for insert 317211 - 317256. The 19:50 run ran fine.

Looking at the table I can see rows with the identity column, values 317211 - 317256, timestamped at 18:50. Looks like the error message is valid, the identity key values attempted for insert were already used.

There is a daily job running at 19:00 that takes 5 or 6 minutes, it runs dbcc checkdb, reorgs all indexes, and updates all statistics, for many databases.

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I have created 3 Server audits on a SQL 2012 Enterprise Server to capture Read, Change and Execute separately. Initially I created them with 'Max_Files' value of 10. The Change and Execute went on well however the Read audit filled up pretty quick and started throwing error : SQL Server Audit could not write to file 'D:\Server Audit Files\Data_Read_Audit_xxxxxxxxxx.sqlaudit'.

I dropped and recreated the Read audit with Max_Rollover_Files = 20 instead but it keeps throwing error: Audit 'Read_Audit' failed to start. For more information, see the SQL Server error log. You can also query sys.dm_os_ring_buffers where ring_buffer_type = 'RING_BUFFER_XE_LOG'.

There was no record in the SQL error log and the dmv reported the following:

ring_buffer_addressring_buffer_typetimestamprecord
0x000000207D073CF0RING_BUFFER_XE_LOG205465268<Record id = "3" type ="RING_BUFFER_XE_LOG" time ="205465268"><XE_LogRecord message="file: file create or open failed (last error: 0)"></XE_LogRecord></Record>
0x000000207D073CF0RING_BUFFER_XE_LOG205451035<Record id = "2" type ="RING_BUFFER_XE_LOG" time ="205451035"><XE_LogRecord message="file: file create or open failed (last error: 0)"></XE_LogRecord></Record>
0x000000207D073CF0RING_BUFFER_XE_LOG201852211<Record id = "1" type ="RING_BUFFER_XE_LOG" time ="201852211"><XE_LogRecord message="file: file create or open failed (last error: 0)"></XE_LogRecord></Record>
0x000000207D073CF0RING_BUFFER_XE_LOG31185<Record id = "0" type ="RING_BUFFER_XE_LOG" time ="31185"><XE_LogRecord message="XE engine initialized"></XE_LogRecord></Record>

To check if this happens to other audits, I dropped and recreated the other two audits but they started without any problem. 

What could possibly go wrong with the Read audit? How could it be started clean?

Thanks in advance.

Nirupam

Hi,

Up until now SQL Server Agent was running. I stopped it and tried to Start again today and since then it does not Start again. I right click on SQL Server Agent then I click on Start. The Process starts and when the process bar shows that it is finished there is nothing happening, the Server Agent remains Stopped.There is no error message.

Any suggestion what I need to check or set to be able to Start it again?

Thanks

Suhi

Hi!

I'm a little bit confused with this task, but it should be done.
So, we have a lot of customers who should use SQL server for their applications.
Design is standard and simply:

Customer -> Remote Desktop -> AppServer -> SQL Server

So, now we plan create SQL cluster (active/passive or active/active/passive btw which is preffered?) and we are don't know which design for this solution will be the best.

For example we have 50 customers who wants to use DBE/Reporting/Analysis.
What your offers about SQL design for solve this case?

Thanks!

Hi,

i am looking to import about 40 pipe delimited files, each will have 5 or 6 columns, i dont want to create 40 tables and 200 fields, is there way to import the files without first specifying the table and fields, so that tables and fields are created automatically on the fly as files are importing, also note i am using sql server 2012 express with no SSIS

any help will be much appreciated

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I have a performance problem on my SQL 2012 SP1 enterprise edition database server. Basically we have a query that is reporting against a 600 million row table on which we have a clustered index and a non clustered covering index.The query runs extremly slow when it uses the non clustered index.The reason being the query incorectly assumes this index has only 1 row (estimated number of rows 1,actual number of rows around 2 million) while hash joining with a temp table and  hashes this index into memory which spills to tempdb. Even though I have updated the statistics with FULLSCAN multiple times and flushed the query cache, the query continues to assume the same. If I drop the non clustered index the query runs fast as it uses the clustered index which it correctly diagnose the row count. The nonclustered index/statistics is created on  int,Datetime column whereas the clustered index is on datetime,int columns. I cannot use query hint to force it to use clustered index for this query. Can someone suggest where might be the problem? Appreciate your help.

SELECT
Correlation.Domain as Domain,
ns.InterfaceID AS InterfaceID,
data.SourceIPSort AS IPSort, data.SourcePort AS Port, data.SourceAS as AsId,
data.*
FROM #Temptab ns
INNER JOIN Tab3 data  WITH (NOLOCK) ON ns.InterfaceID = InterfaceIDRx
INNER JOIN View1 AS Correlation ON Correlation.IPAddressSort = SourceIPSort
      WHERE  (1=1)
    AND ( StartTime >= '2013-11-15T00:00:00' AND StartTime < '2013-11-19T00:00:00' )AND(NodeID=998)

Sample of historam

Statistics for INDEX 'IX_NodeID_StartTime3'.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Name                            Updated                         Rows                            Rows Sampled                    Steps                           Density                         Average Key Length              String Index                   
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
IX_NodeID_StartTime3            Nov 23 2013  3:13PM             639376094                       639376094                       200                             5.374837E-06                    8                               NO                                                              639376094                      

All Density                     Average Length                  Columns                        
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
0.004424779                     4                               NodeID                         
1.66179E-07                     8                               NodeID, StartTime              

Histogram Steps                
RANGE_HI_KEY                    RANGE_ROWS                      EQ_ROWS                         DISTINCT_RANGE_ROWS             AVG_RANGE_ROWS                 
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1                               0                               94346                           0                               1                              
2                               0                               58573                           0                               1                              
3                               0                               100618                          0                               1                              
5                               0                               2533304                         0                               1                              
35                              0                               8889027                         0                               1                              
36                              0                               4214197                         0                               1                              
38                              0                               1.137143E+07                    0                               1                              
39                              0                               1.297758E+07                    0                               1                              
47                              0                               877041                          0                               1                              
49                              0                               7284844                         0                               1                              
64                              0                               4544215                         0                               1                              
65                              0                               1421458                         0                               1                              

Here is error message:

Date                     11/24/2013 4:00:02 AM

Log                        Job History (_SQL_UpdateUsageAll)

Step ID                2

Server                  DECSQL05

Job Name                           _SQL_UpdateUsageAll

Step Name                        Update All

Duration                             00:04:28

Sql Severity                       14

Sql Message ID                2528

Operator Emailed                           

Operator Net sent                          

Operator Paged                               

Retries Attempted                         0

Message

Executed as user: ****\SVCDECSQL05. ...[SQLSTATE 42000] (Error 942) DBCC execution completed. If DBCC printed error messages, contact your system administrator. [SQLSTATE 01000] (Error 2528) DBCC execution completed. If DBCC printed error messages, contact your system administrator. [SQLSTATE 01000] (Error 2528) DBCC execution completed. If DBCC printed error messages, contact your system administrator. [SQLSTATE 01000] (Error 2528) DBCC execution completed. If DBCC printed error messages, contact your system administrator. [SQLSTATE 01000] (Error 2528) DBCC execution completed. If DBCC printed error messages, contact your system administrator. [SQLSTATE 01000] (Error 2528) DBCC execution completed. If DBCC printed error messages, contact your system administrator. [SQLSTATE 01000] (Error 2528) DBCC execution completed. If DBCC printed error messages, contact your system administrator. [SQLSTATE 01000] (Error 2528) DBCC execution completed. If DBCC printed error messages, contac... The step failed.

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what is the sql server "Up gradation & Migrations " and what are steps we can follow from lower version to higher version (2005 to 2012 or 2008 to 2012).

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conn = new SqlConnection("Data Source=PROJECTIDEAS\\SQLEXPRESS;Initial Catalog=Amruta_Ontology;Integrated Security=True");
            conn.Open();
            da = new SqlDataAdapter();
            da.SelectCommand = new SqlCommand();
            da.SelectCommand.Connection = conn;
            da.SelectCommand.CommandText = "with cte as (select  Para_id,classname,COUNT(*) [cnt] from ClassClassificationgroup by Para_id,classname),cte2as(select Para_id,classname,ROW_NUMBER() over(partition by Para_id,classname order by cnt desc) rno from cte) update A set ClassName= B.classname from  ParaClassification A  inner join cte2 B where B.rno=1";
            da.SelectCommand.CommandType = CommandType.Text;
            da.SelectCommand.ExecuteNonQuery();