Deadlocks mitigated
We have a situation where we had an application that was receiving thousands of deadlocks up until last Monday. They suddenly mitigated. There were no changes to the application server nor the database...
View ArticleIn order for the new setting to take effect for max worker thread do we need...
I want to change the max worker thread value to 0 [as of now its >0] for few of my server and after setting up the value to 0, do I need to recycle sql services in order to new setting to take...
View ArticleRunning DTS package through job in SQL Server 2008
Hi,I have imported DTS packages from SQL Server 2000 to 2008. Under Management-Legacy they show there. I already changed connection strings before importing. I want to run these dts packages through...
View ArticleRead-only login cannot even get estimated execution plan for update!
Does this make any sense?I'm cruising on the production server and using a read-only login for safety.But I'm curious about the execution plan for a simple update statement. I know I can't execute it,...
View Articlehow to convert this query into merge statement in sqlserver 2008 R2?
Hi ,i am facing this issue from last 3 days actually the below query fulfilled my requrirement but this code is rejected by lead and asked to make it as merge statement.my actual query...
View ArticleDatabase email issue for an maintenance work
Hi,We do have an daily indexreorganise task done and we have an email sent on completion to selected users.Now for some days now we are not receiving emails from the SQL server agent job. However other...
View ArticleGetting many FlushCache messages in SQL Error log
Hello,Since few days ago I am getting several messages like the one below. Any idea what should I do? FlushCache: cleaned up 6611 bufs with 6381 writes in 90940 ms (avoided 462 new dirty bufs) for db...
View ArticleDatabase migration from SQL server 2008 to SQL Express edition 2008/2012
Hello,We are planning for migration of one of our DBs from SQL Server 2008 Server to SQL Server Express Edition 2008/2012.1) Can this migration happen from SQL 2008 to SQL Server Express Edition 2012...
View ArticleCumulative update caos
Hi all,I'm a bit confused about SQL Server CU mechanism: I've always thinked that wherever CU was superseeded by the release of the service pack, for example CU x for SQL Server 2012 was always...
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Re:Sql server Agent Starting Issue ..
Hi,i am try to start the sql server agent facing the bellow error Thanks, Purna
View ArticleProblem Sending Email - Database Email
Hello,We got some issues regarding our new installation server with our database Email :Server info :EditionProductVersionProductLevelResourceLastUpdateDateTimeResourceVersion Standard Edition...
View ArticleDataSet Reading Problem in Thread
I have the Bulk XML Doument which has 10000 students record (assumption) as follows:<school><student...
View ArticleSQL Server Alias Configuration
Hello,I have a question to create a SQL Server Alias to move an SQL Cluster instance to a new hardware.Our environment looks like, that we have a Windows Server 2008 R2 Cluster Installation. On this...
View ArticleJob outcome: log-message being truncated
While the question is simple I cant convince my search-engine to exclude anything to do with the transaction-log.There should be a way to get the complete(non-truncated) error-message from a SQL-job...
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Querying extended Events XML WaitTypes and Duration
I'm querying Xevents XML that I have collected, and there is something that I dont quite understand, my definition is for statements taking more than 100 milliseconds and also get the wait type as...
View Articlehow to run a simple sql query - dumb question
I am new to SQL Server 2008 (the newest version we have). We have been running SQL 2000 for a number of years and so my limited experience is with that version. What my question is, is I am trying to...
View Articlewhat is sys.dm_pdw_nodes_os_wait_stats
Hi Friends,SQL 2008 SP3/CU6what is this object ? sys.dm_pdw_nodes_os_wait_stats I can't find any BOL about it. it's listed in the master db as DMV but I can't do anything with it ? I need to modify...
View ArticleBest way to connect to SQL Server 2012
Hi all,very simple question: what is the best connection method to an instance of SQL Server 2012? ODBC? OLEDB? Other?
View Articlelock question
we have a developer that thinks a program in one of his applications might be locking a table. The application sometimes goes down for a bit. Unfortunely, we usually hear about it after the...
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