DB Maintenance Plan - Optimization
The following is the DB Maintenance Plan and the configurations provided the production environment:Reorganize data and index page (selected)Change free space per page percentage to: 10% Remove unused...
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Hi all,What is difference between these two styles of TSQL code:WHILE 1...to...1000BEGININSERT ... VALUES(...)END----------------------BEGIN TRANWHILE 1...to...1000BEGININSERT ... VALUES(...)ENDCOMMIT...
View ArticleIs this the right forum for questions about Change Tracking?
Is this the right forum for questions about Change Tracking, or should I post my question in "SQL Server Master Data Services" or another forum?
View ArticleHow to use GROUP BY in SQL Server 2008R2
Hello,I am using SQL Server 2008R2.I would like to get the records which has MAX date GROUP BY "ProjectName". The query that i am using now is,select [ProjectName],MAX([Month]) from...
View ArticleDoes creating COLUMNSTORE index locks the table?
Hi everyone!Does creating COLUMNSTORE index locks the table while index is created?
View ArticleODBC32 connection fails to authenticate on SQL Server
I ran into a weird error message yesterday when trying to connect a workstation ODBC32 to the SQL Server using Native client 10. See message below. I can't tell if I am facing NAT/firewall issues or...
View ArticleSQL Server 2008 R2 - Subscription Running Twice
Hi All,We are running SQL Server 2008 R2 SP2 and I have a problem with a subscription which is randomly running twice. Usually around 20 seconds after the first run. There is only a single SQL Agent...
View ArticleBACKUP LOG cannot be performed because there is no current database backup.
Hi Guys,My database backup has recently started failing with a "BACKUP LOG cannot be performed because there is no current database backup." error message. Initially I thought this was a simple fix,...
View ArticleSSMS 2005 - How to disable Intellisense if SQL isn't an installed language...
Hi, allRunning SSMS 2005 at present. I'm a touch-typist, and don't use Intellisense/"Auto List Members" in any of my development tools. Things like Visual Studio I can disable the choice by language....
View ArticleCompatibility error restoring database created in 10.50.1600?
I'm trying to restore a backup, and the error displayed is "The database was backed up on a server running version 10.50.1600. That version is incompatible with this server, which is running version...
View Articlesp_send_dbmail fails when query uses linked server
I've seen this discussed in another thread however a solution was never found. This came up after we applied the SQL Server 2008 R2 SP2 patch to our DBMS which had previously been at 2008 R2 SP1. The...
View Articlebatch size for insert into tab1 select * from tab2?
database is in simple recover mode, but as tab2 is very big, the log is still very big, is it possible to set a batchsize for the sql insert into tab1 select * from tab2.if we can, say set it to 1M,...
View ArticleTransaction log not releasing the unused space while shrinking
HI All,I am trying shrink a log file.DDCC sqpperf(logspace) - showing below resultsDatabasename Logsize(MB) Logspaceused(%)ABCD 301183.9 1.811704However i took a log backup and...
View ArticleMVCC/read_committed_snapshot and tempdb
We're looking to implement MVCC/READ_COMMITED_SNAPSHOT in our high-transaction databases. We understand from documentation that this will require more tempdb space to manage the snapshots of the data...
View ArticleIs Connection Pooling Affected By Multiple Application Names?
Need consultation for the next question...I have large n-tier buisiness application, working with database with Linq-To-Entities (EDM). Every one from several hundreds of my WCF-methods create own new...
View ArticleDatabase backup without Replication objects (for schema comparison purpose)
I want to perform a schema comparison between an attached database and a backup. The backup comes from a replicated database. The comparison (database -> backup) result script generates delete of...
View ArticleSQL Server Maximum Memory setting
SQL Server 2008 R2 Accidently set maximum server memory to 0 (ZERO). Now there is not enough memory in default resource pool to recitify. Heeelp!
View ArticleSQL server agent restart itself
Recently we have two SQL servers 2008R2 (SP1) experiencing a random restart of SQL agent. We are sure no one restarted but it restarted by its own and runs fine ever since. By looking at the error log...
View ArticleLinked server 2008r2 to 2008r2 collation mismatch "An invalid tabular data...
the server linking to the linked server is robm(SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS) has a DB of views that link to -> bentleysql(Latin1_General_CI_AS)when I try to query I get Msg 4012, Level 16, State 1,...
View Articlelinked server to mysql can show tables but not select from table
Hi everybody, I have a question about linked servers. my procedure is as follows: I want to select data from mysql database through a linked server, I use a stored procedure that takes a query as...
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