what internaly happens to the Transaction log file data during server /...
1. If transaction log file is only having log records ( no data pages ) where the transaction data is physically located in disc ?. Not sure whether it is locating in physical memory (buffer cache) or...
View Articlememory sql 2008
Hi All,Recently, i am going through the memory concepts of sql server 2008 and i need some clarifications from expericenced folks to get better clarity on below terms and objects. What is Memory object...
View Articlesql server memory 32bit systems
Hi All,Can anyone share their expericences which one is good and bad about below configurations on 32 bit systems and sql server 2005. On what factors we can choose either of the below and which one...
View ArticleBlob data pages have a lot of unused space.
I have a table with blob data that has a truckload of unused space that I can't get rid of. SELECT * FROM sys.dm_db_index_physical_stats (DB_ID(N'Test_dbname'), OBJECT_ID(N'tableName'), NULL, NULL...
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Missing index
Hi ExpertsI am confused with the missing index suggestion by sql server. please see the table script bellowCREATE TABLE [dbo].[tblNotifications]( [NotificationID] [uniqueidentifier] NOT NULL,...
View ArticleSQL 2005 Jobs randomly fail with authentication error?
I dump the tran logs every hour and am getting random failures of the job to authenticate? Owner is sa, so how can it fail? No system or application event errors related to this. We have already...
View ArticleData Collection Reports
On SQL Server 2008, I just installed data collection. When I look at Disk Usage, right click choose Reports, I only have the choice of Custom. Why don't I get the two other choices of Historical and...
View ArticleQuestion about how to resolve SQL Event ID 833 SQl Server
Hello all,I work in an environment where we get a lot of the SQL error-event id 833. SQL server has encountered a number of I\O requests taking a long time to complete. I also notice that the...
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SQL Server Agent Schedule Job to run every 3 months
I am trying to create a schedule for a job to run on the 8th day every 3 months. However, when i look at the Job Activity Monitor, the "next run" column shows the job as running the 8th day of the...
View ArticleQueries and stored procedures running slowly.
Hi,I have noticed that AX performance seems pretty poor so ran a Profiler trace. From it I can see that some stored procedures are taking a long time to run. The below is an example. this particular sp...
View ArticleWhat happens to Indexes if the Index Rebuild Maintenaince Plan fails
We are running MS SQL SERVER 2008 64 bit. We have a Maintenaince Plan setup for a large database to rebuild the indexes. Sometimes that job will fail. Can indexes get lost when this failure happens?
View ArticleReplication and site/location ID
Hi All,I'm in the process of creating some Replication Publishers for all our sites. I will have 1 subscriber (for now) that will collect the data from the Publishers (8 databases). What I'd like to...
View ArticleSQL Server- Large Pages Use WITHOUT trace flag 834
I read Bob Ward's post on SQL server and Large Pages (http://blogs.msdn.com/b/psssql/archive/2009/06/05/sql-server-and-large-pages-explained.aspx). He mentions that even without trace flag 834...
View ArticleSSPI handshakes failed
Hi,We have following error in error log:SQL Error Log: 17806: SSPI handshake failed while establishing a connection with integrated security.How to resolve it?Thanks
View ArticleAh - Its a Data Orgy !!!
SQL Server 2008 Fully Patched Enterprise Edition Database in Full Recovery Model Logs backed up every 15 minutes All indexes fully optimized =================================Thanks for looking at my...
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Process got stuck with CXPACKET waits
This is a pretty large query running into this problem. The query gets stuck waiting indefinitely, eventually I have to kill the spid. I attached the sys.dm_os_waiting_tasks for the session I am having...
View ArticleInserting asian chacaters - Japanese, Korean, Chinese
I am on SQL Server 2008, my collation is SQL_LATIN1_general_CP1_C1_AS which comes from instance collation.. My table schema has nvarchar fieldsI.e. address nvarchar (256) Now using SSMS or t-sql if I...
View ArticleSQL Server Alias Configuration
Hello,I have a question to create a SQL Server Alias to move an SQL Cluster instance to a new hardware.Our environment looks like, that we have a Windows Server 2008 R2 Cluster Installation. On this...
View ArticleTDS buffer length too large [SQLSTATE HY000] (Message 65281)
How to resolve this?Manish
View ArticleIs there a resource governer for sql server 2005?
The resource governor is only for 2008, I wonder if there is similar tools in sql 2005? If there isn't any tools built-in, any 3rd party tool would you suggest?
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