Hi,
One of db user saying he is not able to login to database. After checking I found the user account is disabled. Password policy & password expiration is enabled for the user. I am not sure whether the account was manually disabled or not. Can anyone tell me if SQL Server user password is expired then the account becomes disabled automatically?
What causes SQL Profiler to show "SQL Profiler Trace Skipped Records"?
SQL2005 SP2 64bit
Thanks.
Hello,
We have an in-house developed database application that uses SQL Server 2016 (13.0.5101.9) for backend data storage. Numerous tables have identity columns configured as the key field. This week two of these identity columns randomly changed to substantially lower numbers.
In one case the identity column changed from 20200954 to 20160296. In the other case the identity column changed from 20200000 to 20120046. In both cases the identity column was configured as an INT value with an increment step of 1.
We had previously encountered the better known issue where identity values can skip by 1000 during a server restart. We took the prescribed measures to eliminate this.
Anyhow, in approximately ten years of use of this application (using two or three versions of SQL Server over this time), I don’t ever recall experiencing identity values randomly regressing to a lower value. I am wondering…
1.) If anyone else has experienced this?
2.) Is this a known issue?
3.) Is there a known remedy?
It’s very unsettling having identity values randomly change.
Thank You,
Dale
Hi,
I am using the AdventureWorks2017 database and learning how to write functions at the moment but the basic function I have written is coming back with an incorrect syntax error.
The function I have written is just to pull the order ID from a table using the order ID. It is simple I know, but its just so I can learn the concept before moving to more advanced function scripting.
This is my code:
create function ufnGetOrderID(@OrderID int) returns int as begin select @OrderID = salesorderID from sales.SalesOrderDetail where SalesOrderID = @OrderID return @OrderID end
I am running the function as per the below:
exec dbo.ufnGetOrderID(43659)
But I am faced with the below errors:
I hover over the function name and get this-
"Procedure or function 'ufnGetOrderID' expects parameter '@OrderID', which was not supplied."
I hover over the 42659 in brackets and get this-
"Incorrect syntax near '43659', expecting '(', or SELECT."What am I doing wrong?
Thanks,
Dan
Hi all,
we export data into Excel file from SQL Server 2017 with a simple command (a part of a stored procedure):
The command looks like:
INSERT INTO OPENDATASOURCE('Microsoft.ACE.OLEDB.16.0', 'Excel8.0;HDR=YES;IMEX=1;Database=\\some_folder\excel1.xls')...Sheet1
SELECT * FROM table1
It works fine. But only if just one export is processing at the same time.
If more exports are processing simultaneously, the exports crashes, an exception is raised.
"SqlDumpExceptionHandler: Process 68 generated fatal exception c0000005 EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION. SQL Server is terminating this process."
One process is terminated, the other ones are hanging and no other export is possible to start, unless restarting the sql server service.
We are not sure, is it a problem of OLEDB driver or of SQL server service?
Thank you for any advice,
jirpun
this question might be crazy in production, but it happened in my test, I create a cluster and created SQL always on group on it. later I uninstalled the cluster service,
it happened: the AlwaysOn group databases show as restoring. the AG is not responsible, if try to drop the AG, get
Msg 41081, Level 16, State 0, Line 6then I added the cluster role back, sure the cluster service is not started unless the cluster with original name exists.
then I clear the box so as not to enable alwayson high availability group, now the sql server is back to a standalone server.
the only mess is to clear the AD entries for the original cluster name and the AG group listener name, I believe nothing else? please advise.
Also, just wondering the logic, why it is allowed to remove cluster role on the primary node of a cluster where AG resources exists.
Hi All,
Need some help in exception handling. In below code, I want to know the reason why the backup is failing.
For testing purpose, I have intentionally given wrong path of the backup file. i.e. Z: drive doesn't exist and when I run the backup command alone, it gives exact error message saying path not found. However, if I run the code inside an exception block,
I am not getting exact error message. How to capture the exact error message ?? If everything works fine, I want to log that error in a errorlogging table.
BACKUP DATABASE testdb TO DISK = 'Z:\testdb\testdb_Full_20191018.BAK';
/*
Msg 3201, Level 16, State 1, Line 4
Cannot open backup device 'Z:\testdb\testdb_Full_20191018.BAK';. Operating system error 3(The system cannot find the path specified.).
Msg 3013, Level 16, State 1, Line 4
BACKUP DATABASE is terminating abnormally.
*/
Running with try - catch block
BEGIN TRY
BACKUP DATABASE testdb TO DISK = 'Z:\testdb\testdb_Full_20191018.BAK';
END TRY
BEGIN CATCH
SELECT
ERROR_LINE() AS [Error_Line],
ERROR_MESSAGE() AS [Error_Message],
ERROR_NUMBER() AS [Error_Number],
ERROR_SEVERITY() AS [Error_Severity],
ERROR_PROCEDURE() AS [Error_Procedure];
END CATCH
Thanks,
Sam
All, I have a query that returns 2 result sets as shown in the screen shot. My problem is I want to get the value in the first column of the 2nd result set, but I'm afraid I don't know how to do that. Any help would be appreciated:
Tim
DECLARE @maj int=7,
@min int=4,
@maint int=0,
@b int=300,
@r char(1)
SELECT top 1 major,minor,Maintenance,build
FROM Maintenance.DatabaseVersion
WHERE EXISTS
(SELECT top 1 Major,Minor,Maintenance,Build
FROM Maintenance.DatabaseVersion
WHERE major = @maj
AND minor = @min
AND Maintenance = @maint
AND Build = @b
ORDER BY DatabaseVersionID DESC
);
If @@ROWCOUNT = 0
begin
set @r = 'N'
End
else
begin
set @r = 'Y'
end
SELECT @r as UPD
Hi All,
Please review below steps to install SQL 2017 - CU17 patch on Distributed Always-ON (DAG) environment. Please correct me if I have missed any steps.
DB1 and DB2 servers are hosted on DC1
DB1 and DB2 servers are hosted on DC2
DC1-DB1 is the primary (Production) server.
Step 1: Install patch on DC2-DB1 and reboot server
Step 2: Install patch on DC2-DB2 and reboot server
Step 3: Install patch on DC1-DB2 and reboot server
Step 4: Install patch on DC1-DB1 and reboot server
Step 5: Failover from DC1-DB2 to DC1-DB1. Ensure DC1-DB1 is primary (Production)
DC1 - DAG:
DC2 - DAG:
hi all
We run ETL jobs daily through Informatica Powercenter and we are getting following error randomly on this server while connecting to SQL Server. When we re-run the job it runs fine. This is suddenly started happening within last 1 month. There were few security windows patches applied on the informatica server, but none of them were related to SQL server, they are all windows hotfixes/updates etc.
Any pointers will be appreciated.
Microsoft SQL Server Native Client 11.0 : Login timeout expired
SQL State : HYT00 Native Error: 0
Microsoft SQL Server Native Client 11.0 : Unable to complete login process due to delay in prelogin response
SQL State : 08001 Native Error: 258
Microsoft SQL Server Native Client 11.0 : TCP Provider: Timeout error [258]
SQL State : 08001 Native Error: 258
State: 1 Severity: 16
SQL Server MEssage: TCP Provider: Timeout error [258]
I am facing issue with one of the job running sometimes too long 10hrs I have to kill it.
This is happening at two places in code which has merge and insert in SP and when I kill and restart it finishes quickly
I have identified the code and looking into what is happening in b/g using profiler
In profiler I have located the spid and other details, now exactly want to know what is happening
Help me from where to start in profiler
Neil
Hi
The development team recently added a migration to add new columns and remove deprecated older columns on a table:I thought I understood snapshots, I guess not. I have rarely used them. So one scenario where I'm considering them is for use in reporting. I know full well the impact of running a complex report that his the same transactional Db that users are on. However, its how a snapshot works that Im not clear on, esp regarding the changes that happen in the primary Db.
https://www.mssqltips.com/sqlservertip/1010/sql-database-snapshots-for-reporting-auditing-and-data-recovery/
this part:
As data changes in your primary database, SQL Server then writes out what the data looked like prior to the data change into a sparse file, so this way the data stays static. The snapshot will then read the sparse file for the data that has been changed
and continue to read the primary database for data that has not changed. Since the initial snapshot is reading from your primary database, the creation of a database snapshot is immediate.
Questions:
(1) If the snapshot is created at 10 pm and 20 new records get added in the primary Db, will I see those records when querying the snapshot?
(2) Say you have a scenario where your main Db is getting updated primarily during business hours (9-5 etc) and your full backups run from 12:00 to 1am. When would be a good time to create a snapshot? Before or after the backup? Why not just create a snapshot weekly?
(3) Similar to (1), say you have your primary Db getting updated by users of several applications and other things, mainly during business hours (eg. 9-5). If a manager runs a report that uses a snapshot of this Db which was created at 2am that day, or 3 days ago, will they see any of the new records added since the snapshot was created?
I have following simple query.
SELECT STT.SWallet_ID
FROM dbo.TRANSACTION STT
WHERE STT.Keyword='apmt'
ORDER BY STT.SWallet_ID
Because of order by clause, the execution plan shows sort operator. To remove the sort, I tried various indexes bout could not. According to BOL, sort should be removed by using index on column stt.SWallet_ID.
This is my first post, so apologies if I'm missing any of the protocols.
We are running SQL Server 2017 with the latest patches applied (14.0.3238.1). We use memory optimized tables in our database. There appears to be a number of issues which we can't get to the bottom of.
1. On startup, the database in question takes 10 mins or so to be available. Shortly afterwards there is a stack dump
2019-10-21 22:19:03.99 spid5s Recovery is complete. This is an informational message only. No user action is required.
2019-10-21 22:19:10.92 spid25s ***Stack Dump being sent to C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL14.MSSQLSERVER\MSSQL\LOG\SQLDump0080.txt
2019-10-21 22:19:10.92 spid25s SqlDumpExceptionHandler: Process 25 generated fatal exception c0000005 EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION. SQL Server is terminating this process.
2019-10-21 22:19:10.92 spid25s * *******************************************************************************
2019-10-21 22:19:10.92 spid25s *
2019-10-21 22:19:10.92 spid25s * BEGIN STACK DUMP:
2019-10-21 22:19:10.92 spid25s * 10/21/19 22:19:10 spid 25
2019-10-21 22:19:10.92 spid25s *
2019-10-21 22:19:10.92 spid25s *
2019-10-21 22:19:10.92 spid25s * Exception Address = 00007FFB54A91860 Module(hkengine+0000000000191860)
2019-10-21 22:19:10.92 spid25s * Exception Code = c0000005 EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION
2019-10-21 22:19:10.92 spid25s * Access Violation occurred reading address 0000000000000030
2. After this, the database appears to function normally - but the server uses 100% of one CPU continuously. When we check for long running queries, there doesn't appear to be any (we also checked using a trace).
3. If we backup the database, then try and restore it on a different Windows server with a similar error, but it never recovers, with an error 'The database 'dotnetnuke' is marked RESTORING and is in a state that does not allow recovery to be run.'
4. Running:
SELECT log_bytes_since_last_close /(1024*1024) as Log_bytes_since_last_close_mb,
time_since_last_close_in_ms,
current_checkpoint_id, outstanding_checkpoint_count, recovery_checkpoint_id, recovery_checkpoint_ts, closing_checkpoint_id, *
FROM sys.dm_db_xtp_checkpoint_stats
GO
as suggested on some forums gives:
Log_bytes_since_last_close_mb: 9655
time_since_last_close_in_ms: 24760718
current_checkpoint_id: 91
outstanding_checkpoint_count: 4
recovery_checkpoint_id: 87
recovery_checkpoint_ts: 247888
closing_checkpoint_id: 88
Running:
SELECT name, log_reuse_wait_desc
FROM sys.databases
GO
shows that log reuse is waiting for XTP_CHECKPOINT. However, when we run CHECKPOINT manually the logs say that the checkpoint is complete - the command in SQL Server management studio doesn't exit though and stays in 'Executing'
In summary, we are running constantly high CPU and can't restore the database backups to a different server. Any thoughts would be much appreciated.
BTW: Our server has 4 virtual CPUs and 16Mb RAM, and 20Gb of disk space spare. The database is in Simple recovery mode and the transaction log is 1Gb, while the transaction log has bloated to 10Gb.
Hi,
Could anyone please help to know that 2019 Sql Server Enterprise Edition, or any other version is available for production server?
I did study and per my knowledge latest version Sql Server 2019 CTP 3.2 is available. However, CTP version is not for production server? This version is for users and software developer for testing?
Any suggestions, please? Thank you very much!
Hello, I would like to know if it is possible to somehow extract the database version from the DACPAC itself? If it is, I don't know how to do it.
Appreciate any and all advice!
Tim
Hi All,
Unable to restore/refresh a database. I was able to kill the sessions but still I was unable to restore.
When I try to use below query, I get below output. A negative spid on that database.
select
db_name(l.resource_database_id) as dbname,
l.resource_type,
l.request_mode,
l.request_status,
l.request_session_id,
r.command,
r.status,
r.blocking_session_id,
r.wait_type,
r.wait_time,
r.wait_resource,
request_sql_text = st.text,
s.program_name,
s.host_name,
s.login_name,
s.status,
s.nt_domain,
most_recent_sql_text = stc.text
from sys.dm_tran_locks l
left join sys.dm_exec_requests r
on l.request_session_id = r.session_id
left join sys.dm_exec_sessions s
on l.request_session_id = s.session_id
left join sys.dm_exec_connections c
on s.session_id = c.session_id
outer apply sys.dm_exec_sql_text(r.sql_handle) st
outer apply sys.dm_exec_sql_text(c.most_recent_sql_handle) stc
where l.resource_database_id = db_id('mydb')
order by request_session_id;
--https://dba.stackexchange.com/questions/57432/database-is-in-transition-error
What can be done ? Please help.
Cant take the database to single user mode as well. It is keep on running and eventually had to cancel single_user statement as well …. And I am seeing below output.
Nonqualified transactions are being rolled back. Estimated rollback completion: 100%.
Nonqualified transactions are being rolled back. Estimated rollback completion: 100%.
Nonqualified transactions are being rolled back. Estimated rollback completion: 100%.
Nonqualified transactions are being rolled back. Estimated rollback completion: 100%.
Nonqualified transactions are being rolled back. Estimated rollback completion: 100%.
Nonqualified transactions are being rolled back. Estimated rollback completion: 100%.
Nonqualified transactions are being rolled back. Estimated rollback completion: 100%.
Msg 5069, Level 16, State 1, Line 1
ALTER DATABASE statement failed.
Query was cancelled by user.
Checked for negative spids and wasnt able to KILL it.
uSE Master;
GO
SELECT
DISTINCT(request_owner_guid) as UoW_Guid
FROM sys.dm_tran_locks
WHERE request_session_id =-2
GO
KILL '00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000'
Msg 6110, Level 16, State 1, Line 5
The distributed transaction with UOW {00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000} does not exist.
Will restarting MSDTC service in services.msc will fix the issue? This is a dev server by the way.
Thanks,
Sam