My 'Buffer cache hit ratio' is constantly over 2600.00
I am setting up some alerts on my company's SQL Server Database. All of the documentation I read tells me that the'Buffer cache hit ratio' should be 100 or less as it is a percentage. Mine is...
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AlwaysON backup question
Hello!I'm trying to set up backup for the database in an AlwaysOn group using Add Maintenance Plan wizard and got puzzled by the...
View Articledefault Trace
I am trying to change the default trace value from 2 to 6, to incorporate rollover and server shutdown. I am using this code to create a new trace (with id: 2) with the value of 6 and use that to...
View ArticleSQL Server Clustered Columnstore Index and Partitioning - how do they work...
Hello,I have been "playing" with SQL Server 2014 clustered columnstore indexes and found that they can be placed on a partition scheme. I am having hard time understanding how this might physically...
View ArticleNUMALPHA increment function
I have a field can contain numeric and Alpha value information like following and would like to have it increment0001, 0002, 0003, 0004, ... 0009,000A, 000B, ....000Z, 0010, 0011, .... 001Z, 0020I...
View ArticlePage Splits/Sec - Can't Find It
Guys, this is pathetic, but I cannot find the Page Splits/sec counter in Profiler. I know it is supposed to be under Access Methods from searching, but I cannot find that either.This is on Sql Server...
View Articlesyspolicy_purge_history throws an error
Have scoured the Internet looking for an answer to the syspolicy_purge_history error we are having. It is a stand-alone Windows 2012R2 virtualized server running Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 (SP2) -...
View Articleappending instead of overwriting?
Hello,I have this SQL JOB running every 12 hours and it is continusouly appending the files, I was expecting overwriting the files...BACKUP DATABASE VeeamBackup TO disk='D:\SQL VeeamDB...
View ArticleMeasure IOPS
Is there any good way to measure IOPS on a current server that is running SQL Server? It seems like that SQLIO utility is more for bench marking a potential server that may be used as a SQL Server...
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 ArticleThere is insufficient system memory in resource pool 'internal' to run this...
hello Everyone,today i am getting one error while opening activity monitor.i am unable to open AM and i checked in sql server error log i received error message description about memory dump.below...
View Articleone of server core 12 and showing in sql server 24. how it possible?
Hello everyone,I'm confused in sql server 2008 r2 when try to check no. of cores in sql server property are double in sql server and os showing 12 cores.one of my friend saying 1 cores= 2 processors....
View ArticleSQLServer 2012 Web Backup error that SUPENDED KILLED/ROLLBACK problem never...
Hi at all, I need help about an installation of SQLServer 2012 Web Edition Sp1. It's first time that I use Web Edition so tu backup database I developed a .net console application that do Backup with...
View ArticleSQL Server 2014 columnstore with partitioning/indexed views bug
Hi all,This appears to be two separate bugs in SQL Server 2014, but somewhat related. I'm running the latest cumulative update (version 12.0.2342).Basically, I have a simple table that I partition and...
View ArticleCould not kill one spid - PREEMPTIVE_XE_SESSIONCOMMIT
Dear DBA's, Today I had a problem in my SQL 2008 R2 (10.50.2796) instance. There's na every day Job where I stop one server audit, import some audit files to a table and then start it again. Yesterday...
View ArticleUnreliable partitioned view execution table scan, SQL Server bug?
The query still scans all the tables where it supposes to scan only one table when the tables have more than, say, 10000 rows. The details can be found...
View ArticleSQL server service reboot cause the Buffer Data to flush
Could someone please let me know if I just reboot SQL service on Production SQL Server that Causes to remove all Data cached in Buffer cache ? Is reboot SQL service also flush Procedure cache ?Thank...
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Very strange behavior when querying data over linked server
A distributed transaction will be opened for both queries below, and a row will be updated remotely in a given table. However, they will behave internally in a slightly different manner: UPDATE C SET...
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Brighten up everyone's day! Become a shining September SS DBE Guru!
As we in the Northern hemisphere watch the leaves turn brown, and the days grow shorter once more, we mourn the onset of darkness and cold. Winter is coming, and it may be a long one! (heard that...
View ArticleTroubleshooting Hung Query: flat 25% CPU, no disk or network I/O
I work in an environment where all servers (and SQL Servers) run inside of VMware, using a single EMC disk array with all disks placed into a single huge array that is carved up and handed out. Not an...
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