What changed Agent XPs to 0?
What could change the "Agent XPs" configuration setting to 0 and leave no trace in the default trace or sql error log? Also is there another way to see who/what changed it?Platform is Microsoft SQL...
View Articleservice acct ends up looking like nt authority\anonymous logon when it...
Hi we run 2017 std. I didn't know whether to post this in the ssis forum or here. The bottom line is that my test service acct has permissions to read on my sql server after we added it to the...
View Articledatabase performance degradation
On 20/11 starting from 8:00 A.M the application got "Timeout expired" error messages.We noticed database performance degradation.The DB was up, accepting connections but most of the queries (on...
View ArticleWhat can I do with a SQL Server 7 MDF/LDF file pair?
A new client has reached out to me because an application that they had written for them many years ago, running on SQL Server 7, circa 1998, has recently died. They have the MDF and LDF files. The...
View ArticleSQL Server NDF files got created
Hi Fellows,In PROD SQL server environment couple of days ago I notices 600 NDF files got created,I have no idea how it happened,please advise what are the possibilities this could happen,the size is 64...
View Articlehow to script schedule in sql server agent
Hi,How to script schedule in sql server 2005. When I click on script option in manage schedule, there is message ' there is no action to script'. So my question is how to create script for these...
View ArticleCREATE EXTERNAL FILE FORMAT - Excel Files
All,The link says that the files that Polybase support are of the following format: Delimited Text Hive RCFile Hive ORC ParquetDoes this mean that other formats such as Excel File (xls and xlsx) are...
View ArticleSSL Errors Connecting SQL Server 2014 database
I am getting the following error randomly while connecting to the sqL server 2014 database, any suggestion on how we can overcome the error?org.apache.commons.dbcp.SQLNestedException: Cannot create...
View Articlepreemptive_os_getprocaddress
We have a hung process with wait type of preemptive_os_getprocaddress. The process's last statement was xp_sysmail_format_query. I tried killing the proc, but now it just in killed/rollback status....
View ArticleDB Mirroring alerts
Hi, In one of our customers the database mirroring was already configured. After long years they came to us and asking to configure the database mirroring alerts. The alerts needs to come to their...
View ArticleSynonym Affecting Execution Plan
Hi, I have a Linked Server and use Synonyms to abbreviate a 4part table reference. Recently I noticed the delete statement on a specific table is very slow. Using the full 4part name instead of Synonym...
View ArticleApplication jobs are taking more time than expected and DB server CPU...
Application performance is degraded from 18-Nov-2019. We suspected windows patching ,but even after uninstalling the patches also issue remains.Kiran
View ArticleSQL Server 2014 Std , Without execting all lines in the Procedure getting...
HI,We are using MS SQL server 2014 Std. on Win 2012 Std. Srvr .... <o:p></o:p>Sometimes procedures are not getting executed thoroughly and getting exit in between without raising any...
View Articlexp_cmdshell Error code 1385
Trying to execute a sproc that reads a Windows directory using xp_cmdshell and getting error:"A call to 'LogonUserW' failed with error code: '1385'."What I've done so far:1. Enabled the xp_cmdshell...
View ArticleWhy is Number of Connections always 1?
I have a web site that queries every 10 seconds for data via a restful call. Because I am logging after anywhere from 20 to 80 minutes I see this error/exception raisedTimeout expired. The timeout...
View ArticleException Type: System.OutOfMemoryException on DatabaseMail service
Hi,We have a Windows Server 2016 machine in Azure running SQL Server 2016. The server sends around 80 emails a day using DatabaseMail. These are all basically text or HTML emails with no attachments....
View Articleaccess restriction
Hello,we are using SQL Server 2016. Our requirement is to restrict DBA account from selecting or updating any user data.DBA accounts have sysadmin privilige.Please help how to restrict.Thanks
View ArticleOracle Linked Server Issue
I am having a Linked Server from SQL Server 2012 to Oracle 11G. TNSPing and Test Connection to the Linked Server is working fine. But when using the Linked Server to run a stored procedure or when...
View ArticleINT math is slow in SQL server, but only under VMware - really weird!
HiI had noticed a really strangle thing. INT calculation is 2-3-5 times slower in SQL server running in VMware than on physical machines. From VMware side, I had eliminated all possible things:...
View ArticleProblem with XML parser memory leak
We're using xml parameters to send a collection of data to stored procedure. Typical (little simplified) use case would look like:DECLARE @Values varchar(max) =...
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