to be NULL or NOT NULL is here the question
Hi!I have a task about analyzing data to generate some metadata about Products having values for specific measures or not. (Severalproducts of different types are stored in same table, but not all...
View ArticleSQL Issue Access Violation at address 09513DC9
Access violation at address 09513DC9 in module 'WDBHandler.dll'. Write of address 00000000
View ArticleTransaction log issue
i am learning sql server 2008. I have created a database with full backup mode and made a transaction without commit. in the system database info the log_reuse_wait_desc column is still has the value...
View Articledisk io makes long response time badly at recovering
i'm using mssql 2008 r2 on RAID0+1 15K SAS disk.it has heavy writing load and has 1 minute recovering(checkpoint) time.while the recovering, disk io goes up to 100% about 10 seconds and back to normal...
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July TechNet Guru Winners Announced
Below are the results for last month's Guru Competition - TechNet Guru Awards, July 2014The full version can be found here:...
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SQL Server Agent - Operators
Hi,When I tried to configure an operator in SQL server job agent then i can't add more than 100 characters in "email name" field.Any thoughts??
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 ArticleDistributed transactions not working
Hi. Please read this post carefully as I believe this is going to be a complex issue to resolve and I trust we've eliminated all commonly known causes while troubleshooting. We've had two DBAs and two...
View ArticleTwo depended SQL server those running on different version can create any issue?
Two depended SQL servers are running on different version, one server is on SQL Server 2012 (SP1) - 11.0.3393.0 (X64) and other server is on SQL Server 2012 (SP1) - 11.0.3460.0 (X64) . Will that create...
View Articlehow to go about performance issues
Hi Experts, Need help on how to get started on below situations. Users are complaining about queries running slow even after rebuilding indexes,updated stats,no blocking? How to go about...
View ArticleTransaction log used 200GB unable to shrink
Hi All,Currently I am facing diskspace(0 KB available) issue in one of my application server..When I checked SQL server SMS_UDB (is our DB name) containing 70GB but SMS_UDB_LOG (Transaction log)...
View ArticleIs "sp_purge_data" available only to datawarehouses or can it be used with...
Is "sp_purge_data" available only to datawarehouses or can it be used with both a normal database and Azure storage as well ?
View ArticleRolling back after an Upgrade
Hello,I am planning to upgrade from SQL 2008 R2 SE to SQL 2012 SE in our prod env. The upgrade will be an inplace upgrade to a cluster environment from standalone. I ran the upgrade advisor and I got...
View Articlestack dump with DBCC RESULTS
Current time is 11:15:26 08/25/14. =====================================================================...
View ArticleFilegroup Restore and error "The online restore to database 'DB' failed."
Hi all,SQL Server 2012 EEWin Server 2008 R2I am doing some tests regarding backup and recovery. Here is what i have done so far: - I have created a small database - populated it, - generated a full...
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Please find solutions for - A network-related or instance-specific error occurred while establishing a connection to SQL Server. The server was not found or was not accessible. Verify that the instance...
View ArticleAny server performance impact due to many sleeping sessions
Hi,We are running Sql server 2008 R2 in a clustered environment(2 node) in dell servers with Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPUX5670 @ 2.93GHz, 2926 Mhz, 6 Core(s), 12 Logical Processor(s) and 12 GB Ram installed....
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...
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Waits Statistics - PREEMPTIVE, HADR and THREADPOOL
Hi everyone,first of all I'll briefly describe the enviroment:no. 2 Windows 2008 R2 Servers (virtual) w/ 16vCpu and 64GB ram eachno. 5 SQL Server 2012 instances on each virtual server (w/ max memory...
View Article3rd party encryption strategies.
For very long winded reasons I dont want to use either TDE or the column level encryption native to SQL Server. Does anyone have actual experience they can share on 3rd party tools, either good or...
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