Detect Windows server memory from SQL Server SSMS
HelloIs there a way to detect what is the memory on a particular server by querying from SSMS? I am not looking for 'max server memory' of SQL, but trying to find out if there is a way to find out what...
View ArticleSQL Server Reported to be "Shut Down" Automatically
Hi, 3 days back, a support engineer notified us that all the services of 2 Database Servers at our data center had Mysteriously Shutdown. and they had to restart them manually. well, we had a look in...
View ArticleImpact of trace flag 272 on SQL Server 2012 apart from disabling identity jump
I am upgrading my application's SQL Server from 2008 R2 to 2012.As discussed in the below URL I am able to see the Identity jump after I upgrade and the server is restarted.Now since I cannot afford...
View ArticleLSI RAID, SSD Drive Formatting for SQL Performance Suggestions
I am setting up a couple of SQL servers (Mirrors), using some standard parts that we're using in the datacenter. So I am limited in the hardware utilized (already purchased). The SQL Server will house...
View ArticleTable variable and collation
Hi, A table variable e.g. declare @table_1 ( userid int, username varchar(128)) ;If a database x collation is SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS But tempdb system database collation is Danish_Norwegian_CI_AS...
View ArticleMaximum memory setting on database instance
In reference to the database server properties -> Memory -> Maximum server memory (in MB).The context is I have two SQL Server instances (one for SharePoint and for data), as well as SharePoint,...
View ArticleHow to change retention period to 1day in Change Data Capture (CDC) ?
We have CDC enabled in our Sql Server 2008 R2 to one of the database. I have changed the retention period to 15 minutes with the help of below query. sp_cdc_change_job @job_type='cleanup',...
View ArticleSQLAgent Job Failed MS SQL 2008 R2
Hi, Facing below issue while running the SQL job. JOb getting failed.And found below error.Executed as user: . Encryption not supported on the client. [SQLSTATE 42000] (Error 21) OLE DB provider...
View ArticleSQL Server 2012 Service terminated. Resource Monitor (0x12ec) Worker...
We have brought up a 2 node SQL Server 2012 Standard Active-Passive Cluster about a month ago. Last night the SQL Server service bounced on its own [brought down the service for 3 minutes]. Below are...
View ArticleHow to change retention period to 1day in Change Data Capture (CDC) ?
We have CDC enabled in our Sql Server 2008 R2 to one of the database. I have changed the retention period to 15 minutes with the help of below query. sp_cdc_change_job @job_type='cleanup',...
View ArticleChange SQL minimum Query memory setting
We are on SQL Server 2008 R2 enterprise edition and there is 128GB physical RAM installed on production server .The max SQL memory is setup to 112GB and the current setting of SQL minimum Query memory...
View ArticleData Validation after Migration
Not sure if this is the right forum ....Please guide to the right on if itd not ..We are migrating data from DB2 on mainframe to SQL Server 2008 R2 .After the migtation is over , we need to do data...
View ArticleY.A.M - Yet Another Memory(question)
Hi Guys, Help is greatly appreciated on this one. I'm seeing a large gap between the working set bpool and memory clerks. Could be normal but I can't find any details on it. Just recently installed a...
View ArticleDo I need to stop SQL service before I apply OS and IE patches on Windows...
Our SQL dba wants me to stop the SQL service before I apply OS and IE patches on Windows servers.Is this necessary?Thanks. Tiffany
View ArticleHow to use trigger to create SQL Agent job on secondary replica server from...
I have 2 Boxes Server A and Server B.I have setup always on high availability between these servers.Server A is primary and Server B is secondary.I want to set up a process like if I create sql agent...
View ArticleLinked Server error: Login Failed for user 'NT AUTHORITY\ANONYMOUS LOGON'
Good afternoon,I have the following issue that i can't seem to "fix":I have 2 instances: Instance A (primary databases for my application) and Instance B (relational databases for Reporting...
View ArticleDecent SQLIO results but SQL 2008 not performing as well
Apologies, I'm not a DBA so if I miss key info required, please let me know.We have a SQL 2008R2 server that, when busy, is generating high average disk queue length on the Windows VM but we're not...
View ArticleLinked Server error
Dear All, When I tried to create a Linked Server I get the following error message would you please let me know what would cause the issue please? Named Pipes Provider: Could not open a connection to...
View ArticleCould not allocate space for object dbo. because the 'PRIMARY' filegroup is...
Hi all ., I am getting thi s error in the version Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 (RTM) - 10.50.1600.1 (X64) Apr 2 2010 15:48:46 Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation Enterprise Edition (64-bit) on Windows...
View Article1 request creates multiple sessions
HelloI'm seeing something strange that I can't figure out.I have a webservice that takes a few parameters, creates a SqlConnection/SqlCommand and then executes a stored procedure. Most of the time...
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