How to encrypt database backup
Hi,We are sending database backup to vendor for troubleshooting. Vendor have secure ftp site. We just want to make sure backup file is secure. I want to encrypt database backup. How to do that? or is...
View ArticleSQL Server 2005 Timeout expired exception
Hi,I have a program in C# that I used to run on Visual Studio 2000 and SQL Server 2000 without any problem.Now I upgrade to VS2005 and SQL Server 2005 and get and exception whileinsert via...
View ArticleSQL Server 2005 Timeout expired exception error
Hi,I have a program in VB.net that I used to run on Visual Studio 2008 and SQL Server 2000 without any problem.Now I upgrade to VS2008 and SQL Server 2005 and get and exception whileinsert via...
View ArticleDifferent behaviour of dbcc freeproccache and option (recompile)
Hi all,I have a parametrized query, which ran 1sec until we changed MAX DOP from 0 to 1. The change had been recommended by microsoft support due to other issues on this server. The server has 8...
View Articletime-out expired accessing SQL Server 2005 database 64 bit on Windows 2008 R2...
Dear experts,We are experiencing time-out expired in our .NET application accessing SQL Server 2005 database.I have look around and using SQL Server 2005 Base Practice Analyzer I found critical error...
View ArticleProblem with two jobs affiliated with a sql script
Hello --I am testing a script called dbWarden on our 2008R2 standard server. The URL for the script in question is the following:http://sourceforge.net/projects/dbwarden/I have executed the script, and...
View Articlesharepoint environment issue
I had took backup of the share point and SQ L and restore in different servers but share point is mapping to the old database how can i change it to the new (restored data base). share point and Sql...
View ArticleRecovery model for Datawarehouse databases
Hi We are building up a new Datawarehouse environment where there will be lot of of Inserts/Updates/Deletes will be happening. i would like to know what is the recommended recovery model for databases...
View ArticleMissing Index DMVs suggesting index additions that already exist????
Hi all.I have a missing index view utilising the views sys.dm_db_missing_index_group_stats, sys.dm_db_missing_index_groups and sys.dm_db_missing_index_details. I have stumbled across a suggestion from...
View ArticleSql Server login failure error: 18456 with Windows account and sa account
Hi All,I am using Win 2008 R2,SQL Server 2008R2When i try to connect to SQL Server i am getting error 18456. Previously i have installed Active Directory and immediatly i haved un installed it. After...
View ArticleReducing size of files
We have a database in SQL server 2008 that grew to 2,5GB and we try to make it smaller. We have deleted unused data and now the actual space is below 1 GB, however the data file is still 2,5GB. I have...
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Connecting to SQL2000 DB from SQL2008 Linked Server
Hi im trying to Access one Table of SQL 2000 from SQL 2008for that i have created Linked Server in SQL 2008,It is showing all the Catalaogs also,but when im trying to access using the Query it is...
View ArticleDeadlock captures: "FETCH API_CURSOR..." but not query behind it......
This article shows how to "unmask" the sql query behind a FECTH API_CUSORhttp://www.sqlskills.com/blogs/joe/hunting-down-the-origins-of-fetch-api_cursor-and-sp_cursorfetch/that is shown in a deadlock...
View Articlehow to change the default shrink size of logfile?
how to change the default shrink size of log file?when i go to shrink option its showing am option reorganize pages before releasing unused space. where i can see default size set to 220MB in one of my...
View ArticleMemory / virtual memory problem on Win2K8 server
Greetings everyone ! This kind of trouble and question. I have Windows 2008 R2 Standard server installed on VM host on 1 vCPU (4 cores), 5120MB vRAM and 600GB vHDD virtual machine. Server acts as SQL...
View ArticleNeed to recover database for past date
Hi,I had executed some deleted statement on date 04-apr-2013. but i did not take any backup. now i need to recover the same data. Please assist me to delete data. Kapil Kaushish
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SQL Agent Job Output File
Hi ALLare there any option I can add time time at the output log file, then different file name can be created when the job run.
View ArticlePage size, block size and network packet size
Hello,Does anyone have any links to documentation regarding the relationship between SQL Server page size, network packet size and storage block size.I know that SQL works with 8KB pages, does having a...
View Articlesql server 2008r2 cup utilization problem
SQL server 2008r2 we are using ,queries also executing quickly but cpu utilization is showing 98%-99%. same of articles is showing following commends dbcc FREESYSTEMCACHEdbcc FREESESSIONCACHEdbcc...
View ArticleSignificance of sp_getschemalock
HiStumbled across sp_getschemalock when setting up a solution to use linked server and synonyms. Ran a profiler trace of what was actually transmitted over the wire to the linked server. As we're in a...
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