Solid State Drives; To Do, Or Not To Do
While a bit off topic, wondering if anybody on the forums has an experience/benchmarks using solid state drives to speed up their Microsoft SQL database IO. We are thinking about doing it, but wanted...
View ArticleApproach to SQL Server MWT exceeded issue
Hello, I am using a SQL Server 2008 R2 SE on Windows Server 2008 R2 SE. I am getting the below errors in the applications we are using and the errors from sql server log at the same time: App Error:...
View ArticleSQL 2008 R2 is using less precise counter for SysDateTime than for GetDate
We are experiencing what is for us a serious issue... With an upgrade to SQL Server 2008 R2 (SP2) running on a new Dell 12th generation Poweredge 820 server with Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise, the...
View ArticleAutogrow of any file in some database
What is the value to autogrow of any file in some database?
View ArticleIs there a way to post Extended Events to SQL Server Broker queue, similar to...
Hi all I am fascinated by Extended Events and see good use for these. Do you know if there is any plan to release Extended Events target/consumer that is Service Broker based, just like Event...
View Articledatabase_transaction_log_bytes_used for 1 row is greater than the actual row...
As per the article http://sqlskills.com/BLOGS/PAUL/post/How-expensive-are-page-splits-in-terms-of-transaction-log.aspx CREATE DATABASE PageSplitTest; GO USE pagesplittest; GO CREATE TABLE BigRows (c1...
View Articlesql-server-becomes-sluggish-or-appears-to-stall-on-64-bit-installations
Want to know the meaning of artcile as below article is hard to digest due to technical terms =========================================================================================...
View ArticleRecent deterioration of performance
I am running the latest SQL Server 2008. We have been running our intranet site against this SQL database for 10 years and have never had performance problems. The database size is relatively small 8...
View ArticleDelta Deployments OLTP Database
Hi Folks I have a requirement to look at Delta deployments of an OLTP Database in SQL Server between UAT and Production and I wondered was this capable out-of-the-box with SQL Server 2008R2? I know...
View ArticleNuma buffer Ramp Up State 2 counters increae
Notice that the committed and foreign counts are always incremented but the away pages is only incremented when the buffer pool is in initial state....
View ArticleIs there a way to post Extended Events to SQL Server Broker queue, similar to...
Hi all I am fascinated by Extended Events. Do you know if there is any plan to release Extended Events target/consumer that is Service Broker based, just like Event Notifications? I would like to be...
View Article2005 to 2012 upgrade - Performance on inserts
I have recently upgraded my 1.5 TB 2005 database to 2012. I have a larger machine with faster disks, more processors and 3 times the amount of memory. My users select statements are running faster,...
View ArticleUpdate very slow
I am using MSSQL 2000. I have a database which keep having this problem. The database is running fine except "update" statement become very slow (even if the table is very small). Select statement...
View ArticleHow to switch to evaluation edition?
Doing some pre-production testing with SQL2012. I inadvertently installed a lot of systems using our MSDN key (instead of Evaluation). I am testing very large machines with many cpus. Unfortunately for...
View ArticleDeadlock Graph trying to understand where the syntax is located is coming from
I'm new to the company and I was asked to trouble shoot this and find where the query in the graph is located in the Database but I searched all and cant figure it out Help is appreciated thank you...
View ArticleDatabase mirroring breaks without reason (or ability to repair)
Hi all, We have a pretty significant issue with database mirroring (which we use for disaster recovery) that infrequently it will simply break and we will need to break the mirror, restore from a...
View ArticleMaximum threads exceeded in SQL Server 2000
Dear all, We're using SQL Server 2000 sp3 in Windows Server 2003, with 8 cores of processor and 12GB of memory. In the moment, our server suffers from these errors: - startsubprocess: Limit on 'Max...
View ArticleHow do I get the following output.....
suppose parameter is like declare @uploadfilename = 'a.jpg,b.doc,c.jpg,d.png' output is like----- upload_file_name file_extension a jpg b...
View ArticleRebuild index does'nt defragment
the indexes on some of my tables have fragmentation greater than 90% and the page count is more than 3000 for all these indexes i rebuilt the indexes but i still find the same fragmentation levels...
View ArticleSERVER AUDIT file rollover parameter not acting as expected
I have a high volume audit situation in SQL Server 2008 R2 Enterprise Edition 64 bit SP1. CREATE SERVER AUDIT [Audit-UserUsage$xxxxxxxx] TO FILE ( FILEPATH = N'R:\SQLAudit\logs\' ,MAXSIZE = 100 MB...
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