User gets disconnected from the SQL server while running a refresh process to...
Hi All,I received a mial from user stating that My co-worker was able to restore the final database, although it took an extremely long time (HOURS). The server was xxxxx. My username is “yyyyy”; the...
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This morning I could not start my SQL Server Default instance. I looked in the log files and noticed that the mssqlsystemresource.mdf and ldf files were missing. The solution was to copy the two files...
View ArticleResource Governor to Restrict a Windows Login/Group.
Hello All,We have a requirement to restrict a user/group on Production server to use limited resources, i.e. RMA/CPU. Do we have any option in SQL Server Resource Governor to accomplish this task.I...
View ArticleNeed to know what E-mail address an SQL Agent Operator will send FROM
I have a maintenance plan in SQL Server 2008 R2 that backs up some databases. I have a failure precedence constraint tied to a "Notify Operator" task. The e-mail address that it will send to...
View ArticleToo Many VLF's during database re index
During database reindex for one of prod database, VLF's has grown to somewhere around 6000 and log file is 99 % filled Database initial log file size was 52 GB and auto growth of 4 GB , recovery...
View ArticleError: 18056, Severity: 20, State: 46.
I've read so many threads about this error and tried many of things which none of them have resolved my issue.Date5/29/2013 2:29:10 PM LogSQL Server (Current - 5/29/2013 2:29:00 PM) Sourcespid2228...
View Articletrying to find out what's triggering backups and where they are going to
I keep seeing backups type=VIRTUAL_DEVICE in the sql server logs. How do I determine what is triggering these backups and where they are going?
View ArticleWould it be possible to enable the /3GB switch in boot.ini to allow...
Hi All, system:windows server 2003R2 standard edition sp2. computer:Intel(R) Xenon(R) CPU E7-2870 @2.40GHz 2.40GHZ,4GB of RAM Physical address Extension. Product:Microsoft SQL Server Standard Edition...
View ArticleModel licensing for SQL Server 2012 Business Intelligence edition
Hi,if possible, I'd like to know because it exists only the licensing for server and user cals about SQL Server 2012 Business Intelligence edition.Thanks
View ArticleEvent 9001 - log is not available during backups
I've got a 2008 server that has a recurring issue with backups related the the SQL Server VSS writer.The errors seem to start with Event 9001The log for database 'xm8_27' is not available. Check the...
View ArticlePerformance impact of sp_configure blocked process threshold change
I've been tasked with identifying any blocking happening on a production server. My plan to achieve this is to useEXECUTE sp_configure 'blocked process threshold',5 In combination with a server side...
View ArticleDatabase/Table Inheritance
Hi,consider i've 3 databases in 3 servers(different location). here i would like to keep a master tables in Server A. server B and C should get inherit those tables which is there in Server A. Main...
View ArticleDisk IO in a variable
Is there a way that I can get the number of disk IOs from a transaction into a sql variable.Currently I can do this in management studio.set statistics io onselect ..........And I get results like.(39...
View Articlefail over cluster
We have an Active-Passive SQL Server 2008 Failover Cluster installed. Front end is sharepoint. They have two instances on each cluster, one instance is named prod_mssqlserver, the other is for...
View Articlesql server2012 performance
We have sql server 2008 R2 in production, have started evaluating sql server 2012 on a test server.The test server has more memory and cores compared to the production server.The databases and ETL...
View ArticleRemote Connectivity to SQL Server 2012 Enterprise Edition Named Instance
We recently started building out sql server 2012 sandboxes with named instances and we're having issues connecting remotely. We've been using named instances in 2005 and 2008.Made sure tcp/ip is...
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invalid column name 'xml_index_type'
Hi, I'm not sure when this started happening but today, none of us using SSMS 2012 connected to SQL server 2012 SP1 were able to script any objects. we are presented with the messageFailed to retrieve...
View ArticleWITH (NOLOCK) across a linked server
Hi,I have a SProc that copies data from a database on a linked server to another database on the current server. The process is only updating/inserting data into the database on the current server. I...
View Articlesparse varchar columns
SQL Server 2012The documentation suggests space savings on sparse varchar columns if you have more than 60% nulls.This seems inline with varchar docs "storage size is the actual length of the data...
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