Cannot connect to SQL Server 2008 Named Instance
Hello,I am trying to connect to our internal sqlserver\tech instance (2008r2/sqlserver2008r2) from a 2008r2 server in our DMZ using sql authentication. The error message is:A network-related or...
View ArticleUser defined DML
Hi, Is it possible to alter SQL DML commands(like select, insert.,) user defined, from DB architecture point of view?For eg: use any words instead of selectSELECT * from table // if SELECT= reap...
View ArticleUnable to Connect Database Engine via Windows Authentication
Hi All,When I try to login on SQL Server 2008 R2 via Windows Authentication I receive error.TITLE: Connect to Server Cannot connect to (local). ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: Login failed for user...
View ArticleDeadlock Issue
Hi,Yesterday in our production environment we experienced a very weird occurrence. At a certain point and time in the day every query that would execute against our SQL 2008 R2 instance would become...
View ArticleHow to program jobs for multiple databases.
Hi, my sql server 2005 server has many databases.Im aplying jobs to do backups to the databases.Since there are many databases i have to go one by one and it takes too long.Is there a script that i can...
View Articlemaintence plan
hello,i configured 4 task of the maintence plan...i want to see if they finished correctly...where can i see it?thanks
View ArticleMaintanance backup plan fail
Hi allI have a maintenance plan to backup ALL databases on everyday 11:00am. however it failed start from wednesday.I see the log is so strange:Executing the query " declare @backupSetId as int select...
View ArticleDatabase backup plan
Dear all,I have not such experience as a DBA on database administration but I need to setup for our application an automatic backup of our different SQL server 2005 databases.The simple quetsion I have...
View ArticleChange Transaction log backup filename for Maintenance plan
Hello,not sure if this is the correct section for this question but didn't find anything specially for Maintenance plans.We have a setup to copy and restore full backups and transaction logs from our...
View ArticleDatabase backups and retention?
Is there any way in Sqlserver to take a full backup and only on successful completion delete the previous full backup? I want to maintain a retention of 1 and have Sqlserver manage it without having...
View ArticleBackup maintenance plan not working on remote drive -SQLServer 2008 r2
We are using SQL Server 2008. We have a maintenance plan for data backup which places backups on local and remote drives.We are getting error while specifying remote drive.Regards,Salman
View Articleunable to delete/remove the existing backup job under Maintenance Plan
We need to delete/remove the existing backup job in SQL 2005We logged in MS SQL Server Management Studio Express as both SA and Administrator, expanded "Maintenance Plan", located the backup job, right...
View ArticleDB Maint Plan - Cleanup old DB Backup files not working
I created a DB Maint plan with just a 'Maintenance Cleanup Task'; the job executes fine, but does not remove files. The sql it says it's running is: EXECUTE master.dbo.xp_delete_file 0,N'C:\Program...
View ArticleFeasibility of programmatically checking password history
I am tasked with updating the security options of our software. Our software lets a user login to SQL server with the SQL username/password rather than NT Security. So regarding the SQL Security, when...
View ArticleRemove certificate from Win 2008 R2 used for SQL 2012 encrypted connections
I need to remove self signed certificates from a 2 node cluster that was used for testing SQL Server 2012 encrypted connections. I did a similar test on my desktop and SQL Server would not restart...
View ArticleThe operating system returned error 170(The requested resource is in use)
Hello Experts,We have a Sharepoint farm where we are receiving OS Error 170 for many days. It results in database shutdown/Start because required transaction file is not available.The operating system...
View ArticleAbout DMV [dm_os_memory_broker_clerks] for SQL2012
I just find a DMV named [dm_os_memory_broker_clerks] in SQL2012, but I can't find any description for it including MSDN, is any anyone can help to explain it or give some material for it? Please click...
View ArticleStrange results from sys.partitions system view
There is a strange problem on some of new upgraded sql server 2012 servers,for example:use testDB go select partition_id,object_id,index_id,partition_number,rows from sys.partitions where object_id =...
View ArticleBest Practices for Install on VMware / SQL Server 2012 / Sharepoint Server...
Hello, I searching for information about best practices to implement or parameters to configure before or during the installation under VMware / ESX environment / vSphere and SQL Server 2012 and...
View ArticleLSN - is it a global indication all across the instance or per DB value
I need to restore many DBs to the same point.I know I can restore them with stopAt time, but I'm afraid I could lose some transaction that would happen in that exact time.I think using the STOPATMARK...
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