Clustered Index Key
Hi, Right now our largest table uses as primary clustered key a varchar (40) (not my design). I noticed that all values are unique and have the same length. Can I change it to fixed column char(40) and...
View ArticleBack up Failed Access is denied
Sql Server 2012 ExpressDefault instance (not named)Followed this Walkthrough... http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj219062.aspxInstalled to Seperate Drive for web.I have followed this... Gave...
View ArticleSQL Server Shuts Down randomly on big data loads on Windows 8
I am responsible for the data processing and analysis for two identical spacecraft for a NASA science mission. I am running one SQL instance for the first spacecraft on a Windows 7 machine and another...
View ArticleSPID Blocking itself with Sch-S on a table variable.
OK, Here is the problem. I have a SPID that was blocking itself. When you try and kill this SPID it returns the message; "SPID 120: transaction rollback in progress. Estimated rollback completion: 0%....
View ArticleStored procedure Issue
Due to one stored procedure our data has been deleted.This will execute daily.We have to find when the sp was executed 2 days back.When we executed below query we are getting latest execution time.If...
View ArticleChange installation directory for SQL 2008 SP3 or CU
My C drive is full, Server built long time ago. Not enough space available in C Drive but other local drive have storage.Is there anywhere i can use my other drive for patching or apply CU.Env: win...
View ArticleKeep getting errors from application log that indicates transaction log is...
Dealing with a 4rd party application that inserts into its log table, but watching sql profiler i see a ton of the same traffic. Its trying to insert into the table, but generates an error that...
View ArticleDatabase Performance for Newbies
Hello Forum,the Database I have is now running for 1,5 years.At the beginnig there where 90.000 login data per month. Now there are over 900.000 login data per month stored in a table.I am now a little...
View Articlehow to monitor load on server
Hi Experts, What perfmon counters can I use to monitor load on the sql server and trend it over time? Thank you.
View ArticleSQL Server 2008 R2 Memory Pressure
I have a SQL Server 2008 R2 Standard (x64 bit). It has 64GB of memory, but memoryclerk_sqloptimizer consumes about 36 GB. How should I clear it and identify what cause the growth of...
View Articleavg_fragmentation_in_percent remains high although Rebuild Index task is...
Hello, Reading through online and forums I've seen recommendation if avg_fragmentation_in_percent goes above 40% Rebuild Index. I've now completed Rebuilding Index, however the...
View ArticleCannot open backup device 'F:\foldername'. Operating system error 5(Access is...
SQL 2005 EnterpriseEven if I logon as Administrator and try to backup any of my databases to local partitions, I get this error below. I have been operating fine up until this point and doing backups...
View ArticleCHANGE_TRACKING_MIN_VALID_VERSION keeps changing even there are no changes in...
Hi,We use stored procedure like below to get the data on intial load as well as subsequent changes. The underllined part of the stored procedure to get the last_sync_version is slightly different from...
View ArticleIf a database is locked exclusivley does the T-SQL statment get queued and...
I have a Database that must be locked exclusively from time to time for various INSERTS. I am noticing that sometimes I get multiple entries inserted when the database becomes unlocked. My application...
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Attach database file option is disabled
Hi,I have SQL Server 2014 installed. I am trying to attach a database but the option to choose a database is not working. The page looks like this. Not sure what's happening RegardsJatin
View ArticleIndex fragmentation
Hi,Sql Server 2008r2, Our indexes on POLARX database are highly fragmented (>96%) on two big tables, each table have one clustered and 13 non-clustered indexes, because of size of the table and...
View ArticleSQL Server Agent job between 2 instances fails with Error 18456 - Login...
Hi,SQL Server version: 2012 EEOS: Windows 2008 R2 EnterpriseIn my server, i have 2 instances, and I am trying to configure a SQL Server Agent job to query one table in Instance A, and insert some...
View ArticleLink Server temp table
Hi All. Any one if we have a link server. Can we select a temp table from a link server?like the follwing:select * from serverA.tempdb.dbo.#temptable??
View ArticleApply CU10 in Cluster
Hi,I need to apply CU10 in Production which is 4 node cluster. I have around 12 database residing on these 4 nodes.Please give me some documents which could guide me smooth application of Patch in this...
View ArticleCreate Cluster on Windows for Always on
Hi all, I am trying to configure Windows Cluster on windows 2008r2 and windows 2012 . the Validation went ok During the Cluster creation it erroed out . If there is standard documention on Creating a...
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