Hello All,

I've a weird problem when I'm using "SP_Send_dbmail" to send a simple e-mail to two recipients using job agent.

The code i write is:

exec msdb.dbo.sp_send_dbmail
    
    @profile_name= 'Send Reports',
    @recipients = 'ABC@MyDomain.com ; DEF@MyDomain.com',
    @Copy_recipients = 'GHI@MyDomain.com',
    @Body = 'Whatever will be here',
    @subject = 'Daily Reports',
    @file_attachments = 'd:\MyFolder\MyFile.txt';

The error i receive is:

The mail could not be sent to the recipients because of the mail server failure. (Sending Mail using Account 1 (2015-03-03T14:57:17). Exception Message: Cannot send mails to mail server. (Service not available, closing transmission channel. The server response was: service not available (connection refused, too many connections)).

Does any one know why i get such error???

Please advise.

Hany Mounir

hi,

am running the below command for moving sql serevr mdf and ldf files  from one  drive to another : c  drive to d drive:

but am getting the below error

SQL Server\MSSQL11.MSSQLSERVER\MSSQL\DATA\abc.mdf". Operating system error 2: "2(The system cannot find the file specified.)".

use master

DECLARE @DBName nvarchar(50)
SET @DBName = 'CMP_143'

DECLARE @RC int

EXEC @RC = sp_detach_db @DBName

DECLARE @NewPath nvarchar(1000)
--SET @NewPath = 'E:\Data\Microsoft SQL Server\Data\';

SET @NewPath = 'D:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL11.MSSQLSERVER\MSSQL\DATA\';

DECLARE @OldPath nvarchar(1000)
SET @OldPath = 'C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL11.MSSQLSERVER\MSSQL\';

DECLARE @DBFileName nvarchar(100)
SET @DBFileName = @DBName + '.mdf';

DECLARE @LogFileName nvarchar(100)
SET @LogFileName = @DBName + '_log.ldf';

DECLARE @SRCData nvarchar(1000)
SET @SRCData = @OldPath + @DBFileName;

DECLARE @SRCLog nvarchar(1000)
SET @SRCLog = @OldPath + @LogFileName;

DECLARE @DESTData nvarchar(1000)
SET @DESTData = @NewPath + @DBFileName;

DECLARE @DESTLog nvarchar(1000)
SET @DESTLog = @NewPath + @LogFileName;

DECLARE @FILEPATH nvarchar(1000);
DECLARE @LOGPATH nvarchar(1000);
SET @FILEPATH = N'xcopy /Y "' + @SRCData + N'" "' + @NewPath + '"';
SET @LOGPATH = N'xcopy /Y "' + @SRCLog + N'" "' + @NewPath + '"';

exec xp_cmdshell @FILEPATH;
exec xp_cmdshell @LOGPATH;

EXEC @RC = sp_attach_db @DBName, @DESTData, @DESTLog

go

can anyone pls help how to set the db offline. currently  i  stopped the sql server services from services.msc and started the  sql server agent.

should i stop both services for moving from one drive to another?

note: I tried teh below solution but this didint work:

ALTER DATABASE <DBName> SET OFFLINE WITH ROLLBACK IMMEDIATE

Update:

now am getting the message :

Msg 15010, Level 16, State 1, Procedure sp_detach_db, Line 40
The database 'CMP_143' does not exist. Supply a valid database name. To see available databases, use sys.databases.

(3 row(s) affected)

(3 row(s) affected)
Msg 5120, Level 16, State 101, Line 1
Unable to open the physical file "D:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL11.MSSQLSERVER\MSSQL\DATA\CMP_143.mdf". Operating system error 2: "2(The system cannot find the file specified.)".

Good afternoon,

I'm currently struggling to decide the best approach to take with regard to encrypting SQL connections.

I've been looking at Encrypting Connections to SQL Server using SSL and configuring through the SQL COnnection manager.

Our network admins are saying that we could get the same effect by using IPSec and simply encrypt ALL traffic on the network, not just connections to SQL.

Does anybody have any experience with this?  What is the difference between the two technologies?  What are the pros and cons to each?

Sorry for the vagueness and openness of this question.

Regards,

Andy

Hi,

The following code result in warnings with MS SQL 2008, and fails with MS SQL 2012 (Msg 1792, Level 16):

drop table test_error_1792
go

create table test_error_1792 (LongChar char(8000), vc varchar(100), id numeric(2,2))
go

ALTER TABLE test_error_1792 ALTER COLUMN id numeric(15,2)
go

Was there a change in behavior in 2012 regarding Row-Overflow Data Exceeding 8 KB?
Please advice,

Shay.Salomon@niceactimize.com

Trying to get a list of fragmented indexes based on a database name.  However, 

SELECT	COUNT(*) AS TableFragOver80PctCount
FROM sys.dm_db_index_physical_stats (null, null, null, null, null )as ts
INNER JOIN sys.tables t on t.[object_id] = ts.[object_id]
INNER JOIN sys.indexes i on i.[object_id] = ts.[object_id]
INNER JOIN sys.databases db ON ts.database_id = db.database_id
WHERE db.name = 'MY DB NAME'
AND ts.avg_fragmentation_in_percent  > 80.00

The error I get back 

I know there is a database on this server that is offline, actually 2 or 3, but not the one Im trying to get information about.  What could cause the above query to have trouble getting index info that is caused by an entirely different database being offline?

I have three fields - starttime, duration (in hours), and endtime in mssql 2008 r2. Starttime and duration are entered in a form by endusers and I attempted to define trigger to insert/update endtime (as 1 minute less than the starttime+duration) use TIMEFROMPARTS as below (just querying in Management studio) but failed!!!:

Select (DATEPART,Starttime),Duration, TIMEFROMPARTS(DATEPART(HOUR,starttime) + Duration -1,59,0,0,0) As EndTime from <tablename>

but it failed with the message:

Msg 195, Level 15, State 10, Line 1

'TIMEFROMPARTS' is not a recognized built-in function name.

where as this URL of msdn talks about this function:

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh213398.aspx?f=255&MSPPError=-2147217396

---

Appreciate if there is a clear reason why the function doesn't work and there is a simple fix (simple means other than upgrading database..etc.) Otherwise, I will have to resort to convert to datetime from time (for starttime) , use DateAdd function to get the new datetime and then get timepart for end time!!!

rmrrdesai

It is actually getting weird..even DATEFROMPARTS did not work either. My attempt to:

DATEFROMPARTS(YEAR(StartDate),DATEPART(hour,starttime)+Duration01,59) As endtime failed as well!!!

Similar error message..'DATEFROMPARTS' is not a recognized buil-in function name.

John M. Couch

Im trying to setup a job that will read index statistics about a given database.  The system management views are in Master.
Im trying to test the permissions for the login that will be used by doing Execute As, but Im getting permission errors such as
The user does not have permission to perform this action.  Also, since the login is a domain account mapped to a sql login, I cant simply login as that user to run the statement.

So what permissions would be needed to run the statement below?  I can run it without issue, but ive got Admin rights.  I really dont want to give this user admin rights

--Missing index count
SELECT @MissingIndexCount = COUNT(*)
FROM sys.dm_db_missing_index_groups mig
INNER JOIN sys.dm_db_missing_index_group_stats migs ON migs.group_handle = mig.index_group_handle
INNER JOIN sys.dm_db_missing_index_details mid ON mig.index_handle = mid.index_handle
INNER JOIN sys.databases db ON mid.database_id = db.database_id
WHERE migs.avg_total_user_cost * (migs.avg_user_impact / 100.0) * (migs.user_seeks + migs.user_scans) > 10
AND db.name = 'My Database Name'

[update]

I think I found my answer here

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms188754%28v=sql.105%29.aspx?f=255&MSPPError=-2147217396

I want to setup a job that runs a few select statements from several system management views such as those listed below.  Its basically going to gather various metrics about the server, a few different databases and jobs.

msdb.dbo.sysjobs
msdb.dbo.sysjobhistory
sys.dm_db_missing_index_groups
sys.dm_db_missing_index_group_stats
sys.dm_db_missing_index_details
sys.databases
sys.dm_exec_query_stats
sys.dm_exec_sql_text
sys.dm_exec_query_plan
dbo.sysfiles
sys.indexes
sys.objects

So, there a number of instance-level permissions that are needed, mainly VIEW SERVER STATE
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms186717.aspx

Granting these permissions to a single login seems like introducing a maintenance headache for later.  What about a server role?
Correct me if Im wrong, but this is a new feature of 2012 and above, the ability to create user-defined server roles.
Prior to version 2012, I will just have to settle for granting these instance-level permissions to individual logins.  There wont be many logins that need this kind of permissions, but id rather assign them at a role level then add logins to that role. Then again, there is little point in creating a seperate role if there is only 1...and maybe 2 logins that might need this role?

New for 2012
http://www.mssqltips.com/sqlservertip/2699/sql-server-user-defined-server-roles/

Heloo All!

We planned to create maintenance job for daily backup database. But we got a error when we trying to create maintenance job, error -An OLE DB error 0x80004005 ( Client unable to establish connection) occured while enumerating packages. A SQL statement was issued and failed).

Did anybody solve this problem? 

Also we founded that SQL Server Agent status - stopped. 

I trying to start Agent, and got error:

TITLE: Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio

Unable to start service SQLAGENT$server_name on server server_name. (mscorlib)

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:

The SQLAGENT$server_name  service on server_name started and then stopped. (ObjectExplorer)

If anybody solve this problems, please request me!

Thanks, in advance!

Best regards,

Ravil!

We have a performance problem on our production environment: there is a query that is long to display specially on specific records involving a lot of détails. I had the idea to set up data collection to investigate the problem.

I used the wizard to set up data collection with default settings.

I had created a database PERF_DW on our test server for that purpose.

I didn't have any problem with the wizard: it created data collection sets and SQL Server agents tasks and probably many objects. But I don't know where I missed something  but I didnt, have the chance to specify the database I wanted to tune and even when I started data collection, I couldn't figure out where were the reports.

Then I tought that I did it all wrong so I stopped data collection and dropped the database and tried to deleted the jobs created and I had the following message:

TITRE : Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio
------------------------------

Échec de Supprimer pour Travail « collection_set_1_noncached_collect_and_upload ».  (Microsoft.SqlServer.Smo)

Pour obtenir de l'aide, cliquez sur : http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink?ProdName=Microsoft+SQL+Server&ProdVer=11.0.2100.60+((SQL11_RTM).120210-1917+)&EvtSrc=Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.Smo.ExceptionTemplates.FailedOperationExceptionText&EvtID=Supprimer+Job&LinkId=20476

------------------------------
INFORMATIONS SUPPLÉMENTAIRES :

Une exception s'est produite lors de l'exécution d'une instruction ou d'un lot Transact-SQL. (Microsoft.SqlServer.ConnectionInfo)

------------------------------

The DELETE statement conflicted with the REFERENCE constraint "FK_syscollector_collection_sets_collection_sysjobs". The conflict occurred in database "msdb", table "dbo.syscollector_collection_sets_internal", column 'collection_job_id'.
The statement has been terminated. (Microsoft SQL Server, Erreur : 547)

Pour obtenir de l'aide, cliquez sur : http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink?ProdName=Microsoft%20SQL%20Server&ProdVer=11.00.3128&EvtSrc=MSSQLServer&EvtID=547&LinkId=20476

------------------------------
BOUTONS :

OK
------------------------------

Now I understand that the collectors prevent the jobs from being deleted but I can't delete the collectors.

What should I do?

Any help is appreciated.

Thank you for your advice.

Sylvie P

Hi Experts

Being new to PowerShell scripting I hope that someone is able to help me on how to execute the following Stored Procedure in MSSQL from PowerShell:

USE [My Database]
GO

SET ANSI_NULLS OFF
GO
SET QUOTED_IDENTIFIER OFF
GO
ALTER PROCEDURE [dbo].[DeleteAssetReturned]
	@Dates nvarchar(10) = null,
	@AssetDescription nvarchar(255) = null,
	@AssetStatus nvarchar(255) = null

AS

BEGIN
SET NOCOUNT ON;

DELETE FROM dbo.tblAssetReturned
WHERE Convert(varchar, Dates, 105) <> convert(varchar, getdate(), 105)

END

The Stored Procedure cleans the tblAssetReturned when the Dates in a row is different from today's date.

1) I have created Hive ODBC Driver (Succesfully Tested)
2) I have created Linked Server on SQL Server 2014 (Succesfully Tested)
3) SELECT * FROM OpenQuery([SQLHive],
'SELECT * FROM hivesampletable;')

ERROR:
OLE DB provider "SQLNCLI11" for linked server "SQLHive" returned message "Login timeout expired".
OLE DB provider "SQLNCLI11" for linked server "SQLHive" returned message "A network-related or instance-specific error has occurred while establishing a connection to SQL Server. Server is not found or not accessible. Check if instance name is correct and if SQL Server is configured to allow remote connections. For more information see SQL Server Books Online.".
Msg 67, Level 16, State 1, Line 0
Named Pipes Provider: Could not open a connection to SQL Server [67].

INSTRUCTIONS FOLLOWED:
http://ayadshammout.com/2013/05/27/import-hadoop-data-into-sql-bi-semantic-model-tabular/

CONFIGURATIONS OF ON TEST:
-Firewall is OFF
-SQL Server and Windows Authentication mode is ON
- Named Pipes is ON on SQL Server Confi manager

Kenny_I

I have a table with a FK and I want to update a row in that table without being blocked by another transaction which is updating the parent row at the same time. Here is an example:

CREATE TABLE dbo.ParentTable
(
	PARENT_ID int NOT NULL,
	VALUE varchar(128) NULL,
	CONSTRAINT PK_ParentTable PRIMARY KEY (PARENT_ID)
)
GO

CREATE TABLE dbo.ChildTable
(
	CHILD_ID int NOT NULL,
	PARENT_ID INT NULL,
	VALUE varchar(128) NULL,
	CONSTRAINT PK_ChildTable PRIMARY KEY (CHILD_ID),
	CONSTRAINT FK_ChildTable__ParentTable FOREIGN KEY (PARENT_ID)
		REFERENCES dbo.ParentTable (PARENT_ID)
)
GO

INSERT INTO ParentTable(PARENT_ID, VALUE)
VALUES (1, 'Some value');
INSERT INTO ChildTable(CHILD_ID, PARENT_ID, VALUE)
VALUES (1, 1, 'Some value');
GO

Now I have 2 transactions running at the same time:

The first transaction:

SET TRANSACTION ISOLATION LEVEL READ UNCOMMITTED;
BEGIN TRAN
	UPDATE ParentTable
	SET VALUE = 'Test'
	WHERE PARENT_ID = 1;

The second transaction:

SET TRANSACTION ISOLATION LEVEL READ UNCOMMITTED;
BEGIN TRAN
	UPDATE ChildTable
	SET VALUE = 'Test',
	    PARENT_ID = 1
	WHERE CHILD_ID = 1;

If 'UPDATE ParentTable' statement runs a bit earlier, then 'UPDATE ChildTable' statement is blocked untill the first transaction is committed or rollbacked. It happens because SQL Server acquires shared locks when validating foreign keys, even if the transaction is using read uncommitted, read committed snapshot (read committed using row versioning) or snapshot isolation level. I cannot see why change in the ParentTable.VALUE should prevent me from updating ChildTable. Please note that ParentTable.PARENT_ID is not changed by the first transaction, which means that from FK's point of view whatevere is set to the ParentTable.VALUE is never a problem for referential integrity. So, such blocking behavior seems to me not logical. Furthermore, it contradicts to the MSDN:

Transactions running at the READ UNCOMMITTED level do not issue shared locks to prevent other transactions from modifying data read by the current transaction. READ UNCOMMITTED transactions are also not blocked by exclusive locks that would prevent the current transaction from reading rows that have been modified but not committed by other transactions. 

Does anybody know how to workaround the issue? In other words, are there any tricks to avoid shared locks when validating foreign keys? (Disabling FK is not an option.) Thank you.

Alexey

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 Exec msdb.dbo.sp_send_dbmail

@profile_Name = 'SQLProfile',

@recipients = 'me@mycompany.com',

@query= 'Set NOCOUNT ON;

Select ServersName, JobName, Last_OutComeMessage

,LastRunDate,LastRunDuration,GathersDate

From DBMonitor.DBO.FailedJobs',

@Subject = 'test'

When run I get this error:

I do not understand why I am getting either error.

This is a simple example I ran on my DBA server after getting the same error on a slightly more complex (not my much) query on a production server, that gave the exact same errors.

Any idea?  I have Googled this and tried the ideas and nothing I have seen has worked.

Thanks in advance,

Nancy

Hi All,

WithSQL Server 2000 (80) compatible set up, shud the below be ON or OFF

ANSI PADDING ENABLED

ANSI WARNING ENABLED

ARITHMETIC ABORT ENABLED

CONCATENATE NULL YIELDS NULL

Please give me your recomondations.

hi All

I am using SQl 2008, and agent failed to start

2015-03-16 11:11:31 - ! [000] Unable to connect to server '(local)'; SQLServerAgent cannot start
2015-03-16 11:11:31 - ! [298] SQLServer Error: 18456, Login failed for user 'NT AUTHORITY\ANONYMOUS LOGON'. [SQLSTATE 28000]
2015-03-16 11:11:31 - ! [382] Logon to server '(local)' failed (DisableAgentXPs)
2015-03-16 11:11:32 - ? [098] SQLServerAgent terminated (normally)

SQLserver has started~~

Hi

My PROD server frequently restarting after generating below dump.

Pls help me to resolve the issues

=====================================================================                                           
       BugCheck Dump                                                                                            
=====================================================================                                           
                                                                                                                
This file is generated by Microsoft SQL Server                                                                  
version 9.00.5000.00                                                                                            
upon detection of fatal unexpected error. Please return this file,                                              
the query or program that produced the bugcheck, the database and                                               
the error log, and any other pertinent information with a Service Request.                                      
                                                                                                                
                                                                                                                
Computer type is AT/AT COMPATIBLE.                                                                              
Current time is 11:33:40 01/23/12.                                                                              
8 Unknown CPU 9., 3 Mhz processor (s).                                                                          
Windows NT 5.2 Build 3790 CSD Service Pack 2.                                                                   
                                    
Memory                              
MemoryLoad = 99%                    
Total Physical = 65533 MB           
Available Physical = 505 MB         
Total Page File = 121256 MB         
Available Page File = 46 MB         
Total Virtual = 8388607 MB          
Available Virtual = 8321060 MB      
**Dump thread - spid = 0, PSS = 0x0000000000000000, EC = 0x0000000000000000                                     
***Stack Dump being sent to E:\MSSQL2K5\MSSQL.1\MSSQL\LOG\SQLDump0111.txt                                       
* *******************************************************************************                               
*                                                                                                               
* BEGIN STACK DUMP:                                                                                             
*   01/23/12 11:33:40 spid 0                                                                                    
*                                                                                                               
* Non-yielding Resource Monitor                                                                                 
*                                                                                                               
* *******************************************************************************                               
* -------------------------------------------------------------------------------                               
* Short Stack Dump