service pack
Hi all,In our environment we have plan to apply service pack in sql server 2005 sp4. could you please any one tell to me what is the precautions and also suggest pre , during, post steps for apply...
View ArticleIdentify number jump
I have an Identify field in the table using MS SQL 2012.Identify increment is one and seed is one.I run the applicaiton for a while and realized that the number jump once a while.For example, the...
View ArticleDatabase corruption issue
We are facing problems on production server with SQL Server 2005 enterprise edition, where one of user DB are having many allocation errors and backups are not successfull even for msdb. We find some...
View ArticleCreate database fails with
I have a VM set up with SQL 2008 R2 SP2. It has twi instances running on the box.As it is my dev box both instances use the same service account and they both use the same moutn piont for dat and log...
View Articlesql server memory issue
We have a sql agent job that runs after daily processing; the job resets the memory allocated to sql server by changing the “maximum server memory” parameter. The memory is reset from 50 GB to 15 GB,...
View ArticleSQL 2008R2 Login Auditing Greyed Out after changing server authentication to...
After changing authentication from Windows Authentication to SQL Server and Windows Authentication mode, the Login Auditing section under server properties is greyed out. I restarted SQL services,...
View ArticleAlter Table Alter Column Performance
I am running a software vendors utility that updates their schema to make it Unicode compliant. In our test environment a 48GB database completed in 11 hours. I was expecting it to complete faster on...
View Articleconnect to the database engine
HiiiI'm new on SQL , but I'm stick with articles for the past 10 days trying to install and connect adventureworks data, anyway; I have win 8 and installed SQL management studio 2008 R2 express...
View Articletransaction running slow
Hi,We are using SQL Server 2012 as backend database with some ERP application.Some times user complains of transcation running slow, as a DBA where and what should I check in database level to trace...
View Article[SOLVED] - Can't Connect to Network Database ERROR ID:11001 Server Name Not...
I am using SQL Server Studio 2012. Connecting to my own computer database works fine. I am trying to connect to a remote database for work. My associate sent me the log-in info and server name. I...
View Articlefind use based on spid or sid
Hi,using sp_who2, I can get the spid/sid of a session, I want to check which is use is associated to this spid or sid, please helpRegardsBilal
View ArticleSA password changed --Login failed for user 'sa'. Reason: Password did not...
We changed SA password. Then every minute from SQL logs and application logs, we can Login failed for user 'sa' Reason: Password did not match that for the login provided. [CLIENT: <named...
View ArticleHow to create a database in SQL and link it to a local computer drive?
Hi,In SQL, is it possible that I could define a local directory "D:\Data Analysis" as a Library and place the created tables in the local folder? If it's possible, how to do that?Also, If I want to...
View ArticleError 364 Messenger not started in SQL Server 2012
This error noted elsewhere to be obsolete is causing real problems. It causes Jobs to fail. Lots of "helpful" advice saying ignore it - I would but it keeps killing things I want to do!Can this error...
View ArticlePerformance testing
I compressed a database now I want to test the performance increase. I can't run a trace on production. Is there somewhere I can find some queries that I can set statistics IO on and measure the...
View ArticleAppDomain marked for unload due to memory pressure
Looking at the results of xp_readerrorlog on our SQL 2008 sp2 instance. See thisfrequently:AppDomain 2046 (mssqlsystemresource.sys[runtime].5045) is marked for unload due to memory pressure.As far as...
View Articlecheck used and free space of Transaction log
Hi, I want to check how much space is occupied and how much space in free in Transaction log ? Please give me some query to check Regards
View ArticleWhat did the SQL SERVER do while creating a new database?
Hi Alli want know what sql server did when it creating a new database. for example1. what does sql server use from the model database?2. how to determine which user should be added into the new...
View Articleapplying SP1
Hi,I am applying SP1 on SQL Server 2012 "SQLServer2012SP1_CU1-KB2765331-x64" , but it gives error"The version of SQL Server instance Shared Component does not match the version expected by the SQL...
View ArticleAre multi-field indexes dangerous?
Regarding the issue of deadlocks I've been posting about for some weeks, and just why I seem to be having more of them on these two projects than on any previous ones, we do have a large number of...
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