DMV's and DMF's
Hi,Difference between DMV's and DMF's. Pls list out DMV's and DMF's seperately.
View ArticleBackup files
Hi,How do we check the backup files are validated or not.How do we check to know where the backup files are located?
View ArticleTlog file
Hi,After shrinking the Tlog file, the space is not reduced what may be the reason. what we need to do?
View ArticleExchanging data between databases fails in scheduled jobs
In a environment where multiple servers running SQL-Server 2005 support various databases i have to exchanga data and results between two databases running on different servers. The transact-sql...
View ArticleSQL 2008 R2 Best Practices for Updating Statistics for a 1.5 TB VLDB
We currently have a ~1.5 TB VLDB (SQL 2008 R2) that services both OLTP and DSS workloads pretty much on a 24x7x365 basis. For many years we have been updating statistics (full scan- 100% sample size)...
View ArticleRecover space by deleting images
Hi We have a table in a database which has a column of type image. The database has grown tremendously in size so we wanted to move the data in the image column to disk and we did to part of the...
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Database Access issue
Hi team,when i loged into production sql server after we are facing bellow issue,please send answer ASAP...
View ArticleFilegroups - are different backup/restore strategies possible?
Dear All,We have: Database: X FILEGROUP: PRIMARY File - Logical Name:X, File Name:x.mdf Tables: ... FILEGROUP: BIG File - Logical Name:X_big, File Name:X_big.mdf Table: LargeTable A backup...
View Articlesql profiler sqltransaction with DatabaseName null
Run a server side profiler trace since I have sleeping spids appearing occasionally on the server. noticed some SqlTransaction events where DatabaseName column shows null . Majority of the...
View Articleundo delete statement...is it possible
I've made a very silly mistake. I was supposed to run this statementdelete table_columnswhere col_id = 1223but instead I mistakenly executed just the 1st line.I have no backups....is there any possible...
View ArticleRAISERROR in SQL 2012 since SQL 6.5
Hi everyone,we must to upgrade SQL 2008 R2 to SQL 2012, but all the RAISERROR in stored procedures are in the sintax:RAISERROR 50001 'Error during execution of task XXXXXX'Obviously, this sintax is not...
View ArticleHow to shrink database after deleting multiple rows in a table?
Environment: SQL Server 2008 R2 Enterprise Edition and using primary filegroup onlyDon't have enough space to create a new filegroup and move all tables/indexes to the new filegroup.Objective: Reclaim...
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Cardinality estimates on a parallel join are wrong
Hello everybody,I'm having a problem with pretty simple query where the cardinality estimates seems to be off and usual methods that I knew for this kind of problem don't help.The query: SELECT...
View Articlerebuilding catalogs
whenever i create new user,job or course to the database and when i tyry to fetch the records i am unable to search the records,but when i rebuild the catalogs i am able to fetch the same which i was...
View ArticlePhysical connection is not usable
One of our stores is often getting the following error: "A transport-level error has occurred when sending the request to the server. (provider: Session Provider, error: 19 - Physical connection is not...
View ArticleExecution Plan Caching - Zero Cost plans
Hi allI am aware that SQL Server's plan cache eviction policy is: When memory pressure is detected, all Zero-cost plans are removed from the plan cache.By zero-cost, does this mean the cost of...
View ArticleTMG memory high
Hi,Server memory: 4GBWe have a server that only runs TMG. The maximum memory is set at 1024 in SQL, but sometimes when I restart the sever the memory is already at 3 or more GB. Then after an hour or...
View ArticleBackup of files failed
When I try to back up I get several errors. This time it said Backup failed. One or mor soorce disks is missing. What does that mean?
View ArticleWhat are the most common issues faced by a production dba regarding user...
Is there any website, blog or forum where all the database related issues(issues applicable to production environment only) are documented?
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