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restricting cores for sql
we have a 16 core machine, we only want to use 8 cores for sql server due to licensing costs, can we restrict sql to only use 8 cores without removing hardware?
View ArticleSuspect that a low PLE leads to a performance problem
Version;Microsoft SQL Server 2005 - 9.00.5000.00 (Intel X86) Dec 10 2010 10:56:29 Copyright (c) 1988-2005 Microsoft Corporation Express Edition on Windows NT 5.1 (Build 2600: Service Pack 3)The...
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Why does SQL server resets TCP connections?
Hi experts, Please see screenshot here(http://www.4shared.com/file/jTRUk_Gf/All_SAP_connections_are_droppe.html).Application Reset:This situation also generates a lot of calls and, unfortunately,...
View ArticleTempDB and User Data Files
I have a Server with 2 Physical Disk and I was wondering if it would be good if We use a distribution like this:Disk1: SO (C:\), DataFiles(user mdf + Tempdb mdf) (E:\)Disk2: LogFiles (user ldf + Tempdb...
View Article'max degree of parallelism' settings
As per MS Recommendations and Guidelines for 'max degree of parallelism' configuration option (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2023536), it says:-For SQL Server 2005 and later versions, use the...
View ArticleMS SQL 2012 transaction response time breakdown
Hi,Is there anyway to breakdown the transaction response time in terms of disk time, CPU time, waiting time, service time? Thanks.Cw
View Article2 processors with 4 cores each or 4 processors with 2 cores each
2 processors with 4 cores each or 4 processors with 2 cores each, does it make any difference?Edit: does it make any difference to performance? is there any reason why one set up works better than the...
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SQL Server 2005 SQL Agent Oddity
Hey all,I ran into a very wierd issue and looking for some input on this one. Here is the backgroundI have a thousand servers that are remote and they all basically run the same SQL job locally in the...
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Unable to delete a SQL 2005 Maintenance Plan
When trying to delete a SQL 2005 Maintenance Plan through the Object Explorer, I receive the following error:Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio Exception has been thrown by the target of...
View Articlezero initialize log file after every restore
If i have 10 TB Database full backup, 100 GB Differerential Backup and around 12 Tlog bckups. will every restore of backup will zero initialize transaction log.As Ist) Full Backup restore ==> Zero...
View ArticleSQL Server Memory Configuration
Hi,I have a 64 bit sql server 2008 Enterprise edition, total memory was 224 GB and sql has been configured with 200 GB as max. memory and the remaining 24 GB for OS. Whenever I check the memory...
View ArticleThe patch installer has failed to update the shared features Exit Code...
During SQL 2008 SP3 install to SQL 2008 2008 SP2 64 bit enterprise server with a defaults instance and a named instance the installation failed. I was not able to find much information about. Any idea...
View ArticleMonitoring SQL Servers
Hi ,Can any body tell me that. How to monitor 100 and 1000 of SQL Servers /Instances in Big Companies?
View ArticleDoes SQL Server 2005 run efficiently on VMWARE?
Hi. We have a big concern with VMWARE. We are running over VMWARE windows server 2008 (domain controller and DNS). We also run SQL Server 2005 that has a 25 Gb database on a LAN with 15 clients (4 are...
View ArticleLinked Server to Remote Access file is slow
We are using a linked server to an Access file (mdb) on a remote file share. We started investigating slow responses from SQL Server through WireShark and SQL Profiler. We noticed that in WireShark we...
View ArticleIs there a way to gather performance statistics/engine statics from one...
Techies--Here's my dilemma: I have a production db instance that is performing poorly. I don't see this in any of the UAT testing environments. I'd like to replicate the workload by importing the...
View ArticleDeciphering deadlock trace information
I turned on trace flags 1222 and 1204. I got a lot of information about deadlocks but there seems to be missing information.When it says "Wait-for graph" is it producing a graph somewhere or is the...
View ArticleDatabase backup issue
Hello All,Recently I have been getting the below errors whenever my full backup job runs on my staging environment. The job is nothing but a maintenance plan that first deletes backups older than 3...
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