Autogrow of any file in some database
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As per the article http://sqlskills.com/BLOGS/PAUL/post/How-expensive-are-page-splits-in-terms-of-transaction-log.aspx CREATE DATABASE PageSplitTest; GO USE pagesplittest; GO CREATE TABLE BigRows (c1...
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I am running the latest SQL Server 2008. We have been running our intranet site against this SQL database for 10 years and have never had performance problems. The database size is relatively small 8...
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Hi Folks I have a requirement to look at Delta deployments of an OLTP Database in SQL Server between UAT and Production and I wondered was this capable out-of-the-box with SQL Server 2008R2? I know...
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Notice that the committed and foreign counts are always incremented but the away pages is only incremented when the buffer pool is in initial state....
View ArticleIs there a way to post Extended Events to SQL Server Broker queue, similar to...
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View Article2005 to 2012 upgrade - Performance on inserts
I have recently upgraded my 1.5 TB 2005 database to 2012. I have a larger machine with faster disks, more processors and 3 times the amount of memory. My users select statements are running faster,...
View ArticleDeadlock Graph trying to understand where the syntax is located is coming from
I'm new to the company and I was asked to trouble shoot this and find where the query in the graph is located in the Database but I searched all and cant figure it out Help is appreciated thank you...
View ArticleDatabase mirroring breaks without reason (or ability to repair)
Hi all, We have a pretty significant issue with database mirroring (which we use for disaster recovery) that infrequently it will simply break and we will need to break the mirror, restore from a...
View ArticleHow do I get the following output.....
suppose parameter is like declare @uploadfilename = 'a.jpg,b.doc,c.jpg,d.png' output is like----- upload_file_name file_extension a jpg b...
View ArticleHow to switch to evaluation edition?
Doing some pre-production testing with SQL2012. I inadvertently installed a lot of systems using our MSDN key (instead of Evaluation). I am testing very large machines with many cpus. Unfortunately for...
View ArticleConnection to SQL server gets lost
I have two application servers which connect to the db server with various dbs by using SQL Server Native Client 10.0 (Version 2007.100.4000.0). After a fews the connection to db server gets lost. The...
View ArticleUpdate very slow
I am using MSSQL 2000. I have a database which keep having this problem. The database is running fine except "update" statement become very slow (even if the table is very small). Select statement...
View ArticleSQL Server Express Edition Memory Leakage
We have a Windows Form Application and the back-end of the application is SQL Server Express 2005/2008. Our application can be installed on Windows XP SP3/ Windows Vista/ Windows 7. We have observed...
View ArticleMaximum threads exceeded in SQL Server 2000
Dear all, We're using SQL Server 2000 sp3 in Windows Server 2003, with 8 cores of processor and 12GB of memory. In the moment, our server suffers from these errors: - startsubprocess: Limit on 'Max...
View ArticleIssue with SQL Server 2005 Database Mail?
I have a SQL Server 2005 Enterprise Edition 64-bit with SP4 cluster on Windows 2008R2 Enterprise Edition 64-bit Cluster. Database mail was working fine on it for months. Out of the blues it stopped...
View ArticleSERVER AUDIT file rollover parameter not acting as expected
I have a high volume audit situation in SQL Server 2008 R2 Enterprise Edition 64 bit SP1. CREATE SERVER AUDIT [Audit-UserUsage$xxxxxxxx] TO FILE ( FILEPATH = N'R:\SQLAudit\logs\' ,MAXSIZE = 100 MB...
View ArticleAlter existing column to SPARSE results in more space used by the table?
Hi All, Just learning about sparse columns now. I have a table of 300 million rows where 2 of the columns (1 INT and 1 NUMERIC), are 100% NULL values. I've read that changing these columns to SPARSE...
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