Windows 2008R2 SP1 and SQL2008R2 RTM and Numa and Hyperthreading and Maxdop
Hi,I have read the advice about maxdop and numa but I am still confused if you have hyperthreading. We have an HP DL380 G7 that has 2 sockets with 6 hyperthreaded cores on each that are split into 2...
View ArticleSQL Server 2008 crashing with high probability on long running querys and...
Specs:Microsoft SQL Server Enterprise Edition (64-bit)Microsoft Windows NT 5.2 (3790)NT x6410.0.1600.225 databases, largest about 4GB. Total size 5GB.SQL server is crashign with about 1/4 probabilty on...
View ArticleAttaching/Merging 2 seperate Files for two tables on same file group in SQL...
Hi All,I have 24 monthly partitions on a table (dbo.EMPLOYEE) in SQL Server 2005 & every day we are receiving around 3 -4 millions records. ETL is taking more than 3-4 hours to load the data and...
View ArticleWays To Improve Performance
We have a C# .Net Windows froms application with a few hundred Users. The application has 3 layers (Application,Business Logic,Data Access) and the Data Access layer connects all clients to one...
View ArticleMemory Management for Multiple Instances on a Cluster
I am looking for recommendations for configuring memory settings for Three instances of SQL running on a Two server Failover Cluster. ( SQL 2012) ScenarioHardware: 32 Logical, 16 Physical Cores,...
View ArticleSQL Collation for Chinese, Korean, Japanese together
We have one single database to set up that is going to contain data for Chinese, Japanese, Korean language data. We are little bit confused, whether to use CI_AI or CS_AS and with/ without _KS (kana)....
View ArticleResource database update time
Hi everybody,I just queried Resource database update time on my SQL Server 2008 by usingSELECT SERVERPROPERTY('ResourceLastUpdateDateTime'); GOand the result is2012-06-28 10:36:40.883I am a little...
View ArticleIs there a SQL test utility that handles 4k (Sector) Drives?
is there a SQL test utility that handles 4k (Sector) Drives? (If SQLIO works, what is the switch/setting?)
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Database Mail sent_date 5 hours after send_request_date
Why would a mail take 5 hours to send out? Is there anyway to see how many times it retried? Or is there some other method to track that?John M. Couch
View ArticleSSMS 2012 - Connecting to SQL Server 2012 Instance is Extremely Slow
Every time I connect to one of my SQL Server 2012 instances on a remote server, SSMS freezes when "Loading items..." and hangs for at least ten minutes or longer. Out of the people who access this...
View ArticleDeadlock occurred on same table with DELETE and SELECT statements
I received a deadlock notification e-mail today indicating that a deadlock had occurred between a DELETE and SELECT statement on the same table. After looking at the deadlock information, reviewing the...
View ArticleSql server Objects
Hi All,I previously worked as a oracle DBA. Am new to sqlserver admin role. Can i know what is User_objects,ALl_objects and DIct_objects called in sqlserver,Please help me.Regards,Venkat.
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Can anybody let me know what is the main component used in database mail for sending mail to the operator in sql when an alert rises? is it service broker or SMTP?
View ArticleSQL 2012 CLR and XMLSerialaztion - Is UNSAFE still required for CLR's That...
I'm learning to create a CLR assembly the "hard way" - Code the dll then use the Create Assembly T-SQL command.In many of the 2005 and 2008 samples I've seen, there mention of using Sgen to create...
View Articleset maxdop > # logical processors?
Is there a way to set maxdop to a value greater than the number of schedulers on the system? I've got a VM with 4 vCPU that has a fairly low user concurrency but the queries that are run require lots...
View ArticleAlert Deadlocks on SQL server caused by SP Indexing Server
I'm far from a DBA, but I'm getting some alerts. Anybody seen these before? Subject: SQLdm Alert (Warning) - A deadlock occurred on server SPSQLServer on SPSQLServer3/29/2013 12:29:15 AM, Deadlock on...
View ArticleKeep Alive and Keep Alive Interval properties in SQL Server 2012
hi all,Can anybodya explain "Keep Alive" and "Keep Alive Interval" properties in SQL Server 2012 database?Are these propeties are useful keep uninterrupted connection from front end application...
View ArticleThe operating system returns error 665(The requested operation could not be...
During our weekly maintenance jobs for database integrity (DBCC CheckDB() ) I receive the following error when one of my DBs is getting checked. I manually ran DBCC on the DB and it ran without...
View ArticleAdding configuration file in a job using command line option in the JOB...
Hi,I need to add multiple configuration files to an SSIS Job using Command line option in the JOB Properties./File "C:\temp\Package.dtsx" /CONFIGFile "C:\temp\ssisoptions.dtsconfig"the above method...
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