Performance Related Stats Required
Dear Friends, I am running 100 test/staging db's on 4 different vm's. I want to collect consolidated DB performance related information. Is their any option. Regards. Irfan Ahmad
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View ArticleMy SQL Server and SQL Agent services shutdown unexpectedly
My SQL Server and SQL Agent services shutdown unexpectedly. When I checked the event log, I found this error for database id = 26, but when I run the following sql, I don't see a database with id 26. I...
View ArticleSQL server 2012 Installation to put Data and Log on a separate drive
Anyone tell me how to separate the data and log files in separate drive.Can I give separate path for them during the installation or I go ahead with default installation later I move the files to...
View ArticleHeap tables behaviour
Hi, Can anyone explain the below behavior for HEAP tables? I have created a small heap table with 3 rows which can easily fit in 1 data page. Not sure why SQL Server is allocating 2 data pages. When I...
View Article{set arithabort ON} not setting arithabort to ON
hi - when i run in ssms set arithabort ON it returns Command(s) completed successfully. however after i check the options tab under property the Arithmetic Abort Enabled is still set to OFF. I had to...
View ArticleHOW SQL SERVER SUPPORT GLOBALIZATION-MULTIPLE LANGUAGES ?
Hi,Our company, based in US , got a client in Japan and I am assigned a project to create a shell database ,with out data, (from existing database ) with Japanese_CI_AI collation on the SQL Server...
View ArticleInstalling SAS on a SQL Server 2008 R2 machine
I don't know if this is the correct forum for this but here goes:Someone is trying to install SAS on our Windows 2008 SQL Server 2008 R2 server. I don't like installing miscellaneous stuff on the SQL...
View ArticleWhy Table buffer size is larger than its physical size?
Hi, I'm trying to troubleshoot database peformance and when I'm trying to look at table buffer sizes then I found that a table in the buffer consuming more than 5 GB of the memory. But the fact is,...
View ArticleLog user access to file table
Hi Forum,I am trying to log access and changes to files in a FILESTREAM share. Mostly I want to log who changed a file and when.Can someone point me in the right direction?(I tried Google and serached...
View ArticleTrying to Create Database on Windows Mount Point, Receive "Access is Denied"
I installed SQL Server 2012 Enterprise SP1 on Windows Server 2012 using mount points X:\user_data, X:\user_log, X:\system and X:\tempdb as my default locations and used integrated security (NT...
View ArticleSqlEngineConfigAction_install_confignonrc_Cpu64
Any advices or idea how to fix it. I am in the middle of installation of it and It is stuck on error code 32 with sqlEngineConfigAction_install_confignonrc_Cpu64. I have admin rights.Please advice me...
View ArticleCannot see dm_db_index_physical_stats
HiI have a number of DB's set up on a SQL 2008 instance using 2005 compatability.I would like to see the level of fragmentaion on the indexes however when I right click on index, slect properties then...
View ArticleVMWare, SQL Server and NUMA Nodes
We are running VMware on BL660s with 4 sockets/8 cores, 512 GB of RAM with ESX 5.5 running 1 SQL Server environment. Questions:1. How does VMware handle Hyper-threading in relation to NUMA? 2. What...
View ArticleCannot initialize the data source object of OLE DB provider "MSDASQL" for...
Hi,We have just moved our primary SQL server to a new server (SQL 2012 Standard). I did this via log shipping and then failing over to the new server so it became the primary as due to the size of the...
View ArticleIs my SPN is correct or am I getting full spn?
I am getting cannot generate sspi context severity 11 error.When I run setspn command in my sql server 2012 Enterprise edition then finding below result.C:\Users\>setspn -l p8c\s-sqlcluster...
View ArticleDoes increase in number of secondary datafiles for tempdb helps in reducing...
All,First of all thanks for taking a look on my ask.Env. : SS2K8R2, Windows Server 2K8R2 SP1(Virtual Machine) & 4 core processor.I see some high number of io write stalls for tempdb database...
View ArticleCapacity planning for sqlserver?
How can we partition drive space for Data.Log and TempDB files?Is there any formaule used to calculate the drive space allocations?Thanks,Ron.
View ArticleHow to get rid of 'Worktable' in Statistics IO
Hi,I'm using Windows Server 2008 R2 with SP1 and SQL Server 2008 with SP1, 64 bit OS, 32 GB RAM, 2.4 GHz (4 Processors).I have a query in SSMS which has joins among 20 tables (all joins are LEFT OUTER...
View ArticleTPC-E test on SQL Server 2012 high runnable task count
I know I probably shouldn’t be replying to this old thread, but I’m crossing my fingers that Jonathan Kehayias will see activity on this old thread and respond…I’m using Quest Benchmark Factory to run...
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