Monitoring SQL Servers
Hi ,Can any body tell me that. How to monitor 100 and 1000 of SQL Servers /Instances in Big Companies?
View ArticleLinked Server to Remote Access file is slow
We are using a linked server to an Access file (mdb) on a remote file share. We started investigating slow responses from SQL Server through WireShark and SQL Profiler. We noticed that in WireShark we...
View ArticleDeciphering deadlock trace information
I turned on trace flags 1222 and 1204. I got a lot of information about deadlocks but there seems to be missing information.When it says "Wait-for graph" is it producing a graph somewhere or is the...
View ArticleDatabase backup issue
Hello All,Recently I have been getting the below errors whenever my full backup job runs on my staging environment. The job is nothing but a maintenance plan that first deletes backups older than 3...
View ArticleAutomatically connect to multiple DB Engines when opening Management Studio
Every time I open SQL Mgmt Studio, I am required to manually connect to each of the server I used daily. Is there a way to configure Mgmt Studio to automatically connect to the server I use all the...
View Articledisabling Sql Browser: is it really nessesary?
Hello folks, decision was made in my company to disable sql browser because somebody found it in a 'Best Practices' recommended by Microsoft. Is it really big security whole and is it really...
View ArticleDoes DDL affect an explicit transaction?
I need to rebuild a table in SQL 2000 to reclaim a huge amount of unused space. DBCC CLEANTABLE didn't help at all. I'd like to rebuild the table and with "SELECT * INTO newtable...", duplicate the...
View ArticleALTERING an already partitioned table ...
I am looking for the definitive step-by-step doc on how to go about "updating" <for lack of a better word> and out-of-date partition scheme.The table is serveral billion rows so I want to make...
View ArticleTempdb usage
Hi,Suddenly my tempdb has reached a saturation of 1 TB in sql 2008. How can I troubleshoot this and what causes the tempdb to get bloated so quickly. I know the restart will flush the tempdb files but...
View ArticleMSDB Errors
DBCC CHECKDB (msdb) WITH all_errormsgs, no_infomsgs returns the following errors:Msg 8925, Level 16, State 1, Line 1 Table error: Cross object linkage: Page (1:2037), slot 2, in object ID 46623209,...
View ArticleHow many hits on Database per day
For the DBA reperting i need information how many hits on SQL instance for particular day.Whats the query to find how many queries are hitted on database without regarding of users. The report needs...
View Articlei have a production server database full backup with database owner...
those permission providing with out creating the group and induvallas .Please give me Ans ASAP..Thanks, Purna
View ArticleLOG_REUSE_WAIT_DESC
I have a problem I can't shrink the transaction log fileis now 11GB and Datafile is 10GBI look into column from sys.database LOG_REUSE_WAIT_DESCit say "REPLICATION"But I can't delete the replication...
View ArticleBest way to migrate data in large tables.
I am running SQL Server 2008 R2 on Windows Server 2008 R2. I have a large server HP DL580 with 4 processors, each has 6 cores and 256gig of memory. We have a weekly ingestion process and that load...
View ArticleSQL Server Memory Configuration
Hi,I have a 64 bit sql server 2008 Enterprise edition, total memory was 224 GB and sql has been configured with 200 GB as max. memory and the remaining 24 GB for OS. Whenever I check the memory...
View Articleerror message when trying to create any query
I am trying to run a query on my sql server and get the following error message: "An error occurred while executing batch. Error message is: The directory name is invalid." how do I fix?
View ArticleIs there a way to gather performance statistics/engine statics from one...
Techies--Here's my dilemma: I have a production db instance that is performing poorly. I don't see this in any of the UAT testing environments. I'd like to replicate the workload by importing the...
View ArticleSQL 2005 Linked Server to Oracle 10g - Very Slow
Hi, Anyone have some recommendations for a slow linked server from SQL 2005 to Oracle 10g? Here is the situation. We have an application that runs on SQL 2005 - Win 2003, and in certain forms it makes...
View ArticleFull-Text Search Result Highlighting
I have been using MSFTE for SQL 2005 (soon switching to 2008) for the past year or so and have managed to integrate it into a online application used to search text documents with little hassle. The...
View ArticleSQL inconsistency failure (EventID 5243 and CHECKDB msg 8964)
Hello Community,Monday there was a failing SCSI Controller at my hosting company, my hosting company hosts my SQL and SharePoint Server. I saw this in my eventviewer (ID 5243) the Content database was...
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