SQL Server 2000 Slow Response
Hi Dudes,My production SQL Server 2000 CPU is 100% utilized and SQLSRVR.EXE occupies 100% of CPU and when i check the sp_who2 there is no blkby process hanging and consumes. When i check all the...
View ArticleINFORMATIONAL: Update Stats command - With Rowcount and With Pagecount
Hi Everyone,I just wanted to put this out there because I think that this feature is so awesome!The undocumented options of the Update Stats command, WITH ROWCOUNT and WITH PAGECOUNT. Used to trick the...
View ArticleSuggested Criteria for Database Table Compression
Hi,We are about to move some large databases (150Gb to 270Gb) from SQL2005 to SQL2012. One feature that is now available is Database Compression. I do not really see any advantage to compressing a...
View Articlespid -4 blocking the transactions
Hi All,We encountered a situation today where the spid -4 was blocking the transactions. We're not able to kill it as it was not treated as a valid spid by SQL server. We tried to get the UOW using...
View ArticleSecurity hole? sql 2008 "FILESTREAM" share......
I was reviewing a sql 2008 serer and noticed it has a share called"MSSQLSERVER" that maps to \\?\GLOBALROOT\Device\RsFx0103\<local machine>\MSSQLSERVERIt's described as being "SQL Server...
View ArticleSQL Server 2008 R2 Maintenance Plan
I have a SQL Server 2008R2 server configured that hosts multiple databases. The SQL Server (MSSQLSERVER) service uses a local system account.I attempted to setup a maintenance plan that including a...
View ArticleConnection pooling to Informix linked server
Hello everyone, I have this issue with number of concurent connection to Informix db server which is actualy linked server in SQL 2012. Speaking in other words, my application is querying SQL server,...
View ArticleWhy there is only one record per page for the second extent?
I did the test using the following script, and I found there was two records per page for the first and third extents , but there was only one record per page for the second extent, Why ? BTW, you...
View ArticlePermission Required to sysaltfiles
HiI'm holding sa password of our database server, but now, We need to create a SQLUser Login and need to provide SELECT permission to that user on sys.sysaltfiles.I executed 'GRANT SELECT ON...
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How to start clustering?
Hi all,Do we need to enable this feature in widows to install failover clustering?Kindly any one provide a proper guide to install SQL SERVER FAILURE CLUSTERING FROM SCRATCH (With Windows)?
View ArticleUsing DatabAse Mail System
HI Team,Want To Use DataBase MAil System. Can you Help us in sharing some perfect blogs/books/reference for the same. I want to Automatically Excel File From DataBase in SQL and Mail it through the SQL...
View ArticleFind physical reads
Hi,I want to know following information, how can i get it using SQLServer Queries1. Total physical reads on the database. 2. Total logical reads on the database.3. top 10 tables /indexes based on...
View ArticleSQL Server 2000 Slow Response - Need quicker solution
Hi Guys,Can any one suggest to monitor tools or scripts to verify the process causing the high CPU by sql server executable. Thanks.MRVSFLY
View ArticleStatus of index
Hi,Are indexes in SQLServer become invalid because of some reason (i.e. partition operations like split/merge), or becauseof any other reason? If yes, then how to find out index which has become...
View ArticleSQL Server 2012 Max Memory Recommendations
I have previously seen recommended settings for max memory for SQL Server 2005 and 2008. Can I use these same recommendations for 2012? We have a centralized group that performs the installations for...
View ArticleInternal Error: Text manager cannot continue with current statement. Run DBCC...
I am running 2008 R2 SP1.This is the following from the xevents record;<event name="error_reported" package="sqlserver" id="100" version="1" timestamp="2013-01-30T13:26:59.988Z"> <data...
View ArticlePAGEIOLATCH_EX Wait type on insert
Hello All,I am noticing a lot of PAGEIOLATCH_EX wait types whenever there is an insert into a table. I have the clustered index primary key on a GUID. I wanted to know if this was a disk issue and ran...
View ArticlePartition table with non-clustered index
Hi,I am in sqlserver 2005 developer edition. I have a table awrard_transaction which has refno column as primary key and has a primary key (unique clustered index on it), index name is...
View ArticleAlways On New Availability Group - Full backup is required
Just trying to create a New Availability Group for AlwaysOn , I see the database is listed, in the status it says: "Full backup is Required. The database is AdventureWorks2012, i have taken a full...
View ArticleRestore database
Hi All,while am restoring the database, am getting following error like database backup set already exists.my backup version is sql 2000 and am restoring in sql 2008.I checked overwrite option...
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