Help for Resource Governer
Hi, can anyone share what is the pros and cons for using Resource Governer
View Articlecommon issues in log shipping
appreciate it if dbas can list the common issues they have faced in log shipping.I understand that we can have space issues in directory or user rights issues or sql server agent being down.any other...
View ArticleUnable to drop filegroup; The filegroup cannot be removed because it is not...
SQL 2008R2SP2 Standard Edition 64-Bit on Windows 2008R2 Enterprise.I have an empty file group (no files assigned) that is not the default file group. I have never setup or tried to set up...
View ArticlePersistancy of user account & its permission in TempDB
Hi,I have observed an interesting issue in sql server 2012 (my version is 11.0.5532)1. Create a sql server login, let's call it [Test] 2.Create a user (let's call it TestUser) in TEMPDB with the...
View Articlevarchar to numeric
Hi All.. I am writing a query to select and the stop at the middle, and say Msg 8114, Level 16, State 5, Line 1 Error converting data type varchar to numeric.How can I find the problem row quickly ?
View ArticleSQL Server Job Help
Hi All, I have a maintenance job In PROD server which execute on every Sunday and it will take almost 7 to 8 hours or sometime more than it (depending upon index fragmentation) to complete I have to...
View ArticleHow SQL Server Utilizes Memory (RAM) while Index Rebuild.
Hello,I had a conversation with one of the SQL Server DBA today regarding Memory/Cache utilization while SQL is re-building indexes. Could someone please help me to understand how SQL Server uses...
View ArticleThe SQL Server (Instance Name) service terminated unexpectedly. It has done...
Our SQl server 2012 instance terminated unexpectedly many times in last two months. We had a look the error log but there is nothing details in the log. And there is nothing in the Windows event...
View ArticleDatabase Mail error
HelloI am new to SQL Server 2008. I am upgrading from 2000 to 2008 and currently working on Database Mail.I can send a test mail to say an email address like abc@xyz.comIf i create an operator with the...
View ArticleRestoring from a network drive
Using SQL Server 2008R2, I am trying to restore a .bak-file from a network folder (on a NAS)I keep getting the following error:Msg 3634, Level 16, State 1, Line 2The operating system returned the error...
View ArticleSQL Server 2008R2 vs 2012 OLTP performance difference - log flushes size...
Hi all,I'm doing some performance test against 2 identical virtual machine (each VM has the same virtual resources and use the same physical hardware).The 1° VM has Windows Server 2008R2 and SQL Server...
View ArticleSQLCMD Mode vs SQLCMD command line Utility
I noticed some strange behavior with column ordering on a view. When I run the below script using SQLCMD Mode in SSMS, the columns show in the correct order. If I run the same command using the...
View ArticleDuplicate Key error from mutually exclusing Select/Union - How can this be?
Hello, I have a web production system that has had this problem twice now. This logic is run hundreds of times a day for each user as it is part of the application dashboard and this has only occurred...
View ArticleJoin hint ignored - very bad query plan results
I'm trying to get a query that's being generated by SSAS to perform acceptably. Because this query is (at least partially) generated by SSAS, I don't have complete control over the query text.The...
View ArticleUnexplained sql join statement error
I have 3 tables having this unique id one of them has a different type of data type.The following is the data type in the 4 tables representing the same column :users : userid(varchar(20)) finewaiver :...
View Articlememory utilization
Hi All,There was stackdump which occurred on 29th July, and I want to find out memory utilization at that time on that instance, and I do not have complete dump in the log, I only have as BEGIN STACK...
View ArticleFill Factor and Too Much Space Used
Okay, I am on sql server 2012 sp2. I am doing a simple update on some large tables where there is an int column that allows nulls and I am changing the null values to be equal to the values in another...
View Articlesql server 2012 evaluation edition expired
Hi Gurus, sql server 2012 evaluation edition expired,Here i don't have any backups and when i browsed few blogs suggest to upgrade to another edition from Evaluation edition.1)Do upgrading the edition...
View Articlemigrate vCenter Server Database
Hi,I have vCenter database on SQL Server 2008 R2 SP1 CU1. Now I have installed SQL Server 2012 on new server. I need to migrate the Database to this new server SQL Server 2012.Please give KB...
View ArticleSeeking help on SQL Server Monitoring
Hi Experts, This question is related to monitoring of sql server. 1. I want to send an email alert with all open transactions on SQL Server in HTML report whenever there is sustained 50-60% CPU usage...
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