SQLServer 2012 memory
What are changes to SQL Server memory in SQL Server2012? Do I need to consider any thing in memory before migrating to denali?
View ArticleSP2 Maintenance Backup fails on offline database.
I have a maintenance plan step to perform transaction log backups. There are a few databases that are offline. The backup seems to fail because it tries to backup the offline databases. The backup...
View Articlehow to query individual database startup time
I am seeing one of the mssql 2008r2 database starting up in the log. How do I see when it was shutdown and startup up.in the sql server log, it just stated its "Starting up database 'THISDB'thanks
View ArticleA contradiction in indexes
Hi I have an database with a main table containing 72 million rows. The application is a Patient Information System, or rather a data warehouse for data from several PIS. The data is used as an...
View ArticleDatabase Issues
Hi,How to troubleshooting database Connectivity & network related Issues?
View ArticleAttaching a database
When trying to attach a database to SQL Server 2008 Express, I am unable to get to my Documents folder in the Add dialog box. I go to Users\owner and there are no subfolders. I have to move the...
View ArticleSqlProfiler - Does filtering not work for multiline fields?
I'm using Sql Server 2008, and find that SQL Profiler trace filtering does not work as I expect for the TextData column when I attempt to use '%' sign as a wild card. If I paste the complete value of...
View ArticleSAN configuration for SQL 2008 Failover Clustering
I need to know how many partitions do i need on the SAN. Can any one correct me that the following will be on shared cluster i.e,. on the SANDisk 1 :QuorumDisk 2: Data root directoryDisk 3: MSDTS
View ArticleBackup EXPIREDATE set but still overwritten
Hi Friends,I took a backup with EXPIREDATE = 12/16/2012 (tomorrow) and then took another backup on same backup set with INIT and it completed successfully overwriting the first backup. So what is the...
View ArticleHow to monitor primary key violations particular table?
How can I monitor the number of primary key violations occurring on a particular table?I need a # of violations/sec and a count.Thanks,Andy
View ArticleSP_RELEASESCHEMALOCK, SP_GETSCHEMALOCK, SP_UNPREPARE
I've been doing some tracing on one of our production systems and I'm seeing some system stored procedures being called I've never seen before. Here are the series of events:Code Snippetdeclare @p1...
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Information about linked server details including remote login in use
After joining a new organization, one day an application support came to ask brief information about all the SQL Server linked servers and few more important configuration details.They were looking to...
View ArticleSeparating Data Files and Log Files
Hi Folks, I am facing an issue which I thought I understood but looks like reading and implementing a strategy are very different. I have a SQL 2008 running on a VM with Windows 2003 and having 8...
View ArticleBackup has failed in sql server 2005
Hello,Today my sql server 2005 backup job has been failed with the following error:Executing the query "BACKUP DATABASE [XXXXXXX] TO DISK =...
View ArticleIs it possible to delete some of the changes returned by...
I'm referring also to this post: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/eu/sqldatabaseengine/thread/67d77c7e-a3e6-48bc-a851-614d261e3a5eI've kind of a unique situation, I've my full text index with...
View ArticleCopy mdf and ldf file to other storage without offline database
We're sql 2005 enterprise with sp2 and want to copy our user database mdf and ldf files to other storage since the full backup job failed for unknown reason. But seems we need to offline db or shutdown...
View ArticleCDC database corrupt
Help, our CDC enabled database is corrupted on a systemobject, updates are still working fine, but no BU can be taken due to a checksum error during checkpoint.We copied all user data into a newly...
View ArticleHow to configure jobs and to notify to the user in SQL SERVER 2008 servers
Hello,I have 20 SQL 2008 servers we dont have any monitoring tool to monitor for job failures,low disk space,log file is full,database is offline or suspectmode etc.Could any please help me how to...
View ArticleMsg 3013, Level 16, State 1, Line 1
Hi,I have sql server 2008 enterprise edition.My log file is showing about to full the HDD and the database is in logshipping but it is paused due to some customer requirement.I want to shrink the log...
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