SQL Server Agent not appearing in Management Studio
Hi there,I have SQL Server set up on a server and I can't see the Agent in Management Studio.When I check the services it says it is there and started.I have the Enterprise edition installed.Funny...
View ArticleSQL Server 2005 64-bit 100% CPU
We just did a conversion from SQL Server 2000 SP4 32 bit to SQL Server 2005 64 bit SP2 9.0.3042.0. We have 16G of memory on the new box as well. We had no CPU/memory issues on the 32 bit box. We...
View ArticleHow to tell if a job is hung up or being blocked? no blocks seen with sp_who2
Ive started a job on a server that I have inherited, by right clicking on it and starting it.Its still running, and has not errored yet, but Im thinking it should have finished by now.How can I tell if...
View ArticleHow to tell if statistics are causing problems
Is there a system view I can query to tell me if there is something wrong with statistics for a database which might cause strange problems with a procedure?
View ArticleDebugging tips for job/procedure - SQL 2005
SQL 2005 standard editionCan I step into a stored procedure from SSMS ?Ive read where you can do remote debugging if you install some additional components, but Id rather not do that.
View ArticleCan I detach attach database from 2008 to 2012 upgrade.
Can I detach attach database from 2008 to 2012 upgrade.I am upgrading from 2008 to 2012 can I detach database in 2008 and then upgrade 2012 and then attach?Current Version is :Microsoft SQL Server...
View Articlesysjobactivity cannot insert duplicate
We have a job which runs through ok, but right at the end it (presumably) tries to update sysjobactivity to say success. Upon attempting to do this it looks like it's failing (with error below in error...
View ArticleSQL Server 2008 Memory Usage details
Server configuration : Windows 2008 64-bit & SQL Server 2008 64-bit environment with 14 Gigs of Memory.Max. Server Memory set to 11 Gigs.- The task manager is showing sqlservr.exe is consuming all...
View ArticleReclaiming 2TB in a SQL Server 2008R2 database ( non-log file) shrinkdb
We have a very large SQL Server 2008R2 database (4TB). Recently we were able to compress some of the xml files located within the database. This reduced the actual database size to 1.5TB. But the...
View ArticleSQL Compression performance issue
I have 2 identical databases. I have page compressed all tables and indexes in one of them. This gave me around a 40-50% saving in terms of storage.Now when I run the same query (select only) against...
View Articledrop article does not clear records from MSreplication_objects
I have simple transactional replication set up. One of the publications had 3 articles. 1 of those became unnecessary, so I did:EXEC sp_dropsubscription @publication = 'Pub_A', @article = 'Art3',...
View ArticleRandom Error: A network-related or instance-specific error occurred while...
Over the weekend around 2am in the morning we started receiving the following error from all of our web applications accessing a particular SQL Server: A network-related or instance-specific error...
View ArticleCMS -Store the results in a table
I have configured CMS in my sql 2008 instance. I want to import all the resultant to a table t present on the same instance.How to do it?vivekanandhan periasamy
View ArticleVirtual SQL Server failing to create snapshot during backup (Netbackup,...
Hi, I'm hoping someone can offer some advice regarding an issue I'm having trying to back up a Windows VM via a Flashbackup policy. For the past few days (no issues previously) this backup has been...
View Articlesql query failed
Unhandled exception has occurred in a component in your application. If you click continue, the application will ignore this error and attempt to continue.Object reference not set to an instance of an...
View ArticleInstance error
When JIT debugging is enabled, any unhandled exception will be sent to the JIT debugger registered on the computer rather than be handled by this dialog box
View Articleregardin linked servers, when i ran the linked server query i got the error...
Hi All,i created a linked server beetween sql server 2005( windows 2003 cluster) and sql server 2008r2(windows 2008 cluster), both are in cluser. after that test connection and select query was running...
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Hi,I insert this室内游戯into the table. But when I select from the table, I get thiswhy?Many Thanks & Best Regards, Hua Min
View ArticleDisk performance question: disk bytes/transfer
Hi,I'm suffering performance issue with my disks.its for a datawarehouse, so I setup the SQL Server flag to use the extended pages. its supposed to read 256Kb instead of 64kb.on my tempdb drive, the...
View ArticleBlock / Locking
I'm currently experiencing issue with a .Net application with a SQL Server back-end.The application generates inventory via a database transaction with requirements of up to 4 a second in peak periods....
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