All,

In one of our application, some  errors that are generated are not captured on the database side. For example, errors such as “Cannot insert the value NULL into column '%.*ls', table '%.*ls'; column does not allow nulls. %ls fails.”.  

select*from sys.messageswheremessage_id IN(515,8153)andlanguage_id = 1033

In this example, I was able to force an entry into the SQLServer Error Log by updating the is_event_logged column to 1 (sp_altermessage 515, 'WITH_LOG', 'true';). Like this error, the application might be generating other errors too. I’m aware that one can write an Event Notification process  or Server-Side Trace to capture the error message (and code) via the USER_ERROR_MESSAGE event. But how would I capture the actual code that resulted in the error and email the same?

For example,

CREATETABLE[dbo].[Tab1](

      [Col1][int]NOTNULL,

      [Col2][nvarchar](50)NULL

)

GO

INSERTdbo.Tab1(Col2)values ('test comment')

The insert results in the error

Msg 515, Level 16, State 2, Line 1

Cannot insert the value NULL into column 'Col1', table 'DBAArchive.dbo.Tab1'; column does not allow nulls. INSERT fails.

The statement has been terminated.

I was hoping to use something like EVENT NOTIFICATION services that would capture the error message and the code behind the error message and email these two to the stakeholders. Keen to hear the best practices.

Thanks,

rgn

SQL Server 2012 SP 2 on Windows 2012. Yesterday a transaction log backup against the largest database (50 GB database, 5 GB log) failed with the error below. SAN admin tells me everything is fine.

Backup detected log corruption in database SQLMonitor. Context is Bad End Sector. LogFile: 2 'E:\SQLDatabases\SQLMonitor_log.LDF' VLF SeqNo: x236a98 VLFBase: x44630000 LogBlockOffset: x4c47c400 SectorStatus: 4 LogBlock.StartLsn.SeqNo: x236a98 LogBlock.StartLsn.Blk: x3f1eb Size: xf000 PrevSize: xd200

I ran a full backup, changed the recovery model to simple, ran a checkpoint, changed the recovery model back to full, and ran another full backup. Subsequent full and transaction log backups ran fine.

Is there something similar to DBCC CheckDB that I can run to verify the integrity of the transaction log?

Hi Team,

I am facing issue in generating total sum and daily sum from table ThresholdData.

DailyTransactionAmount should be sum of todays amount in the table

TransactionAmount should be sum of all amount in the table.

Basically,

1. I don't want to scan ThresholdData table twice.

2. I don't want to create temporary table/table variable/CTE for this.

3. Is there is any way to make it done in single query.

  I hope, where criteria is not possible in partition function.

I am trying query something as given below,

SELECT  TransactionDate,
  TransactionAmount,
  ROW_NUMBER() over (order by TransactionDate) AS TransactionCount,
  SUM(TransactionAmount) over (partition by id ) AS TransactionAmount, 
  SUM(TransactionAmount) over (partition by id ,CONVERT (DATE, @TodaysTransactionDate)) AS DailyTransactionAmount
 FROM ThresholdData
 WHERE id = @id
 AND transactiondate >= dateadd(d,-@TransactionDaysLimit,@TodaysTransactionDate)

s

If I create a memory table inside a while loop, I expect that every loop the memory table is (newly) created and thus empty.

But when I test this, I see that on the second, third, ... run the inserted data in the memory table is still present and not cleared.

This can be reproduces with the following code:

DECLARE @tbl TABLE
( [id] BIGINT )

DECLARE @tbl2 TABLE
( [value] BIGINT )

INSERT INTO @tbl
VALUES (1), (2)

DECLARE cur CURSOR FOR
  SELECT *
  FROM   @tbl

DECLARE @curid BIGINT

OPEN cur
FETCH next FROM cur INTO @curid

WHILE @@FETCH_STATUS = 0
  BEGIN
      DECLARE @tempcurtable TABLE
      ( [value] BIGINT )

      SELECT 'NOT EMPTY ON MULTIPLE RUNS', *
      FROM   @tempcurtable

      INSERT INTO @tempcurtable
      VALUES (11), (12)

      INSERT INTO @tbl2 (value)
      SELECT value
      FROM   @tempcurtable

      FETCH next FROM cur INTO @curid
  END

/*
	Expectation: twice 11 and 12 in @tbl2
	Actual result: three times 11 and 12
*/
SELECT *
FROM   @tbl2 

Is this a wrong assumption or is this a bug in SQL Server? (Tested on: SQL Server 2014 and 2008).

Hello,

I looked at the number of VLFs in ony databases and figured out it was 300. I looked at the log file and its 40GB with 99% free space. I reduced the log file to 1GB. Now I looked at the VLFs and the count is 250. so 250 vlfs in a 1GB of log file. Is there a way to get the VLFs to a decent number?

Also my transaction log backups run once every 5 mins and auto growth on data and log files is 10MB.

Thanks

Can anyone tell me if the following plan works:

1. Setup the new server. Install SQL 2012, move all server objects (logins, databases, jobs, alerts, operators, etc.) to the new server. Keep the user database physical file directory/security same as the old server.
2. Test the new server. While testing the new server, the old server remains as the production server.
3. On the target deploy day, clone the old server user database disk volume, and attach the disk to the new server.
4. The new server (SQL 2012) will detect the database files are in old SQL 2008 R2 format and automatically do the conversion.

My question is should I detach all the testing databases before attach the cloned disk to the new server, and manually attach the user databases after the disk is attached. Or SQL Server can automatically do the conversion as step 4 described.

Thanks,

Lijun Zhang

Thanks

The results for September's TechNet Guru competition have been posted!

http://blogs.technet.com/b/wikininjas/archive/2015/10/19/the-microsoft-technet-guru-awards-september-2015.aspx

Below is a summary of the medal winners for September. The last column being a few of the comments from the judges.

Unfortunately, runners up and their judge feedback comments had to be trimmed from THIS post, to fit into the forum's 60,000 character limit, however the full version is available on TechNet Wiki.

Some articles only just missed out, so we may be returning to discuss those too, in future blogs.
 

BizTalk Technical Guru - September 2015

Forefront Identity Manager Technical Guru - September 2015

Also worth a mention were the other entries this month:

• FIM 2010 & MIM2016: Virtualisation support byPeter Geelen - MSFT   
  Søren Granfeldt: "Another great article Peter"  
  Ed Price: "Great use of links for readers to dig deeper!"

Microsoft Azure Technical Guru - September 2015

Also worth a mention were the other entries this month:

• Azure Active Directory integration with Salesforce 'Sandbox' bySamir Farhat       
  JH: "Haven't worked with Salesforce yet, but the steps are explained in a good detail."   
  Ed Price: "Good job with the images, and the table is incredibly useful! I love having setting broken down like that in a clear way."
• Microsoft Azure Redis Cache - Implementation of a service to work cache data by João Sousa
  JH: "Short intro. Needs some more explanations and detailed code snippets."   
  Ed Price: "Fantastic topic! Great formatting on the code snippets!"
• Full Home Automation with Azure & Voice Assistance using Intel Galileo Gen 1 & Windows 10 by Rishabh Banga
  JH: "Is already present in the "Universal Windows Apps" section"   
  Ed Price: "Cool and fun topic! Good job on this. This one got judged in the "Universal Windows Apps" category instead. Please only submit each article into one category."
• Microsoft Azure - Create Cloud Service with specific .NET Framework by João Sousa
  JH: "Seems to be mostly the same as https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/cloud-services-dotnet-install-dotnet/" 
  Ed Price: "Great to have the images and code!"

Miscellaneous Technical Guru - September 2015

Also worth a mention were the other entries this month:

• Unity 3D Game Creation Using C# Script bySYED SHANU
  Richard Mueller: "Good images but the explanation wasn't clear to me. Also, check out the Wiki Guidelines Wiki for pointers."
  Durval Ramos: "This article awake curiosity, was well illustrated and has "See Also" section."
• Getting started with Microsoft ASP.NET WebHooks Preview byGaurav Kumar Arora
  Durval Ramos: "This article is interesting, but needed to be done to facilitate learning. e.g: TOC, images, samples,... A good start."
  Richard Mueller: "A new technology. Grammar needs work and the explanation can be improved."
• An idea to add SQL Like Functionality in LINQ by Gaurav Kumar Arora
  Durval Ramos: "This feature is very useful and has a code easier to understand "how to do", but need to add images and References."
  Richard Mueller: "A good idea. Short and sweet."

SharePoint 2010 / 2013 Technical Guru - September 2015

Also worth a mention were the other entries this month:

• SharePoint site down "An application error occurred on the server" web.config error by Inderjeet Singh Jaggi
  Ashutosh Singh: "Needs tidy and more"
  TN: "This error can be caused by many reasons."

Small Basic Technical Guru - September 2015

SQL BI and Power BI Technical Guru - September 2015

Also worth a mention were the other entries this month:

• SSRS: Join data from different SSRS data sources into data set by sergey vdovin
  PT: "At first I had mixed feelings about promoting these techniques as a best practice, given the level of complexity. However your approach to this challenging problem well executed and clearly explained. Thank you for posting this useful information."
  RB: "Not much information here, apart from link to github projects"
  OT:"I personally don´t see any greater benefit in writing a separate article and referring an already existing one without pointing out really new stuff. The old one is pretty good and although the author does not get much love updating this, he should in order to have the thing in one place."
  AN: "The content is not complete and the "Solution" section was written in another article. This article's very confused."

SQL Server General and Database Engine Technical Guru - September 2015

System Center Technical Guru - September 2015

Transact-SQL Technical Guru - September 2015

Universal Windows Apps Technical Guru - September 2015

Visual Basic Technical Guru - September 2015

Visual C# Technical Guru - September 2015

Also worth a mention were the other entries this month:

• MVC Web API And AngularJS: Are You Genius Game bySYED SHANU
  Carmelo La Monica: "Interesting, i don't have experience on Asp.Net, but article very interesting, good image and code snippet."
  Jaliya Udagedara: "Explains a specific application. Love the fact that a lot of images is used and sample code is available to download which helps the readers. A bit of article formatting is needed."
• Little More Information On Casting and Type Checking in C# byIsham Mohamed
  Jaliya Udagedara: "Explains the topic of the article in detail. If we can have little bit of formatting in the article, then it will be perfect."
  Carmelo La Monica: "Sometime is a problem for casting Object, but with this article we can to understand how to convert correctly an object or variable. Congrats!"
• ASP.NET MVC HangFire - Execute Jobs in Background using SQLServer by João Sousa
  Jaliya Udagedara: "I would rather change the title of the article to “Configure Hangfire in an ASP.NET MVC Application”, because that is what explained in the article. Good job!"
  Carmelo La Monica: "Great content, and useful image and code snippet. Congratulations!"
• MVC Web API and Angular JS For Word Puzzle Game bySYED SHANU
  Carmelo La Monica: "Same comment for MVC Web API And AngularJS: Are You Genius Game. Congratulations!"
  Jaliya Udagedara: "Explains a specific application. Love the fact that a lot of images is used and sample code is available to download which helps the readers. A bit of article formatting is needed."

Wiki and Portals Technical Guru - September 2015

Windows PowerShell Technical Guru - September 2015

Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) Technical Guru - September 2015

Windows Server Technical Guru - September 2015

As mentioned above, runners up and comments were removed from this post, to fit into the forum's 60,000 character limit.

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Please join the discussion, add a comment, or suggest future categories.

If you have not yet contributed an article for this month, and you think you can write a more useful, clever, or better produced wiki article than the winners above, here's your chance! :D

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Hello,

I have 5 queries that I want to put in a single SQL Agent job and all of them need to output the results into a single spreadsheet but in 5 different tabs and once the data is output I need the job to send me an email with the spreadsheet as attachment.

Is this possible?

Thanks

All,

One of our applications failed when we tested in DR. It turned out that the "User Defined Job Category" was missing in the SQLAgent. We wanted to know when (date) this Category was created as we were unable to back track and investigate who & why it was created in the first place.

I tried querying the system table but was unable to find the date information. 

Any idea if this date is stored somewhere?

Thanks,

Gopi

Hi, 

We try to run a stored procedure in management studio - and we see the following error - 

"

Executed as user: "Some User". Unspecified error occurred on SQL Server. Connection may have been terminated by the server. 

[SQLSTATE HY000] (Error 0)  The log for database 'Some-database' is not available. 

Check the event log for related error messages. 

Resolve any errors and restart the database. 

[SQLSTATE HY000] (Error 9001)  During undoing of a logged operation in database 'Some-Database', an error occurred at log record ID (2343114:16096:197). 

Typically, the specific failure is logged previously as an error in the Windows Event Log service. Restore the database or file from a backup, or repair the database. 

[SQLSTATE HY000] (Error 3314)  During undoing of a logged operation in database 'Some-Database', an error occurred at log record ID (2342777:81708:1). 

Typically, the specific failure is logged previously as an error in the Windows Event Log service.


Restore the database or file from a backup, or repair the database. [SQLSTATE HY000] (Error 3314).  The step failed. 

"

Can someone please help us with this ?

Thanks

Hi, I have the below view 

CREATE VIEW vwEmployee
AS
SELECT TOP 1 ID, DateAdded
FROM DB1.dbo.tblEmployee WITH (UPDLOCK, READPAST)
ORDER BY ID ASC, DateAdded ASC

when I run something like 

begin transaction
select * from vwEmployee
waitfor delay '00:00:05'
commit

usually there has to be update lock on only 1 row in the table. But I see Update lock on each row of the table. When I run the same query on the table

select top 1 * FROM DB1.dbo.tblEmployee WITH (UPDLOCK, READPAST)  ORDER BY ID ASC, DateAdded ASC

I see the update lock is only on 1 row. So what I m missing here? Can someone please shed light on this? Thank you

Let me preface this with I discovered this issue using JDBC but confirmed it using Transact-SQL as shown below.

Create a single column table with the column being type datetime (compatibility going back years). insert the following dates: '2015-11-01 01:58', '2015-11-01 01:59', '2015-11-01 02:00'

CREATE TABLE [dbo].[testtable](
	[datecol] [datetime] NOT NULL,
 CONSTRAINT [PK_testtable] PRIMARY KEY CLUSTERED
(
	[datecol] ASC
)WITH (PAD_INDEX = OFF, STATISTICS_NORECOMPUTE = OFF, IGNORE_DUP_KEY = OFF, ALLOW_ROW_LOCKS = ON, ALLOW_PAGE_LOCKS = ON) ON [PRIMARY]
) ON [PRIMARY]

GO

INSERT INTO [dbo].[testtable] VALUES ('2015-11-01 01:58')
INSERT INTO [dbo].[testtable] VALUES ('2015-11-01 01:59')
INSERT INTO [dbo].[testtable] VALUES ('2015-11-01 02:00')

GO

Now, run the following Transact-SQL

DECLARE @date datetime2 = '2015-11-01 01:59:00.0010000'

SELECT datecol FROM testtable WHERE datecol = @date
INSERT INTO testtable VALUES (@date)

The SELECT will return no rows because there is not a 2015-11-01 01:59:00.001 entry which is correct BUT the INSERT has an error because '2015-11-01 01:59:00.000' already exists, which is also correct.

It appears the SELECT executes converting the datecol values to datetime2 before comparing but the INSERT executes converting the datetime2 to datetime.  This behavior is not correct.  The SELECT should convert the datetime2 value in the WHERE clause to datetime and then do the compares, then this code would work correctly (SELECT would return 1 row because '2015-11-01 01:59:00.001' is converted to '2015-11-01 01:59:00.000' and INSERT would still fail).  Otherwise the INSERT fails when there is no matching key found in the SELECT.

This was tested on SQL 2008 R2.

Pete

I have a Central Management server set up, I had no issues evaluating policies against the servers I had set up. 

We upgraded from 2012 to 2014 and now I am unable to run\evaluate policies against the registered servers. 

I receive a error:

TITLE: Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio
------------------------------

Value cannot be null.
Parameter name: source (System.Core)

------------------------------
BUTTONS:

OK
------------------------------

==================================

Value cannot be null.
Parameter name: source (System.Core)

------------------------------
Program Location:

   at System.Linq.Enumerable.Any[TSource](IEnumerable`1 source, Func`2 predicate)
   at Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.SqlStudio.Controls.ConnectionPropertiesControl.UpdateConnectionInfo()
   at Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.SqlStudio.Controls.ConnectionPropertiesControl.SetConnectionInfo(ConnectionInfoBase connectionInfo)
   at Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.TaskForms.TaskFormControl2005UI.Initialize(TaskFormManager taskFormManager)
   at Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.TaskForms.TaskFormManager.get_Control()
   at Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.TaskForms.TaskFormDialogHost.Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.TaskForms.ITaskFormManagerHost.Initialize(ITaskFormManager control)
   at Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.ActionHandlers.ShowTaskUIDialogActionHandler.RunTaskForm(IContext context)
   at Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.ActionHandlers.DialogBasedActionHandler.RunTaskFormThread(Object contextObject)

I have since attempted to Repair the install

I tried to reinstall\repair just the Management msi.

and someone had mentioned on a different forum to run SP1, we already have SP1, so I ran the latest hot fix

good day to all i want only to ask if possible the microsoft sql to be automatic inport and export the database like back up and restore every minutes or seconds or day.

example i have Server A and Server B

I Want the server A to back up and restore to Server B or the other word i want the server A is automatic sysc the database to SERVER B true network. i want to know if possible. 

SERVER A >>>>>sys>>>> SERVER B

other question i want to know also if possible the server A and the Server B sysc together?

SERVER A>>>>> sys >>>>>> SERVER B >>>>sys>>SERVER A

hopefully is possible

Hi. 

We have implemented Private Cloud based on System Center, Hyper-V, vmware on Dell Server equipment. We've implemented Azurepack (Vm cloud atm) and the next step would be daas (fault tolerant mssql, mysql). My superiours tasked me to deploy 2 separate infrastructure configuration in order to find best (in term of overal perfomance) solution.

1st - VM1, VM2, SQL2014 in always on mode, one big Lun on which vhdx's from always on group reside, OS and SQL on a single vhdx = total 2 vhdx (governor is on in azurepack)

2nd -  VM3, VM4, SQL2014 in always on mode, boot vhdx disks reside on a separate Lun, data (sql, logs etc) disks presented to vms via virtual FC adapters.(governor is on in azurepack)

Also i need to stress test this two configurations and confirm that а) governor actually works b) receive general io perfomance result on both configurations.

my questions:

1. in your opinion what configuration \ setup is the best solution for hosting tenants database? Our proposed configs is okay?

2. Testing io SQL. I've done some research and planning to use sqlio utility. Could you please share your expirience using this tool ? Anything i should be care of ? It would worth mentioning that tenants (our internal users, resourse consumers) failed to provide me any metrics for governor, so i've no clue what to input there ).

<sorry for broken english>

In the books online documentation for the OPENQUERY function,
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms188427.aspx#Anchor_1
it says :

'query'

Is the query string executed in the linked server. The maximum length of the
string is 8 KB.

Which "KB" is that?  The 8000 limit of the varchar data type?  8 * 1024 = 8192 bytes?  The ~8096 bytes allowed in a SQL Server 2000 Row?

What part of the system is applying that 8 KB limit?

Dan Jameson
Associate Director of IT/DBA
Children's Oncology Group
www.ChildrensOncologyGroup.org

We are running a SQL 2005 SP4 in VMWARE vCenter 6.0, the networks card we have tested on the server is E1000 and vmxnet3.

The problem started with that the server started to report “A fatal error occurred while reading the input stream from the network. The session will be terminated.”

After that we got longer response time, a normal sql take up 2 to 3 time longer to respond.  

We started to change the network cards with E1000 to vmxnet3 with not success. The next step was to change the TCP Chimney offloads from on to off. We started with normal problems ppl used describe in different forums and in the kb951013.

This didn’t help us to get rid of the error and it also made the respond time on the server to increase.

If I check the waits on the server we also ASYNC_NETWORK_IO at the number 1 place on the server.

We have tried to

Validate the network components between the application/clients and the SQL Server instance (router, for example).

Look at your NIC configuration on the server to make sure there are no issues with the physical card. Also, check if autodetect is picking the fastest speed.

Check network adapter bandwidth: 1 Gigabit is better than 100 megabits, and 100 megabits is better than 10 megabits.

Is there anybody that know of any problem with combo SQL 2005 SP4 in VMWARE? Or any other general thing to look at.

Hi guys; 

I always found the BEST advice here; that's why I always come back!

Quick inquiry... what do you think? I need to automate a process... a group of people needs to see/receive every 3 weeks a list of 600 rows for 1 field.

Options I see...

1- Create an ssrs with a view... and provide them the link...

2- Sql job that every 3weeks runs a powershell... inside powershell: send the result of the query attached in an email sent to these people...

what do you think? do I have any other option?

thanks in advance guys!!

Help me!

My ms sql server is crash today.In logs i'm view

I'm have mdmp file.

Current time is 11:45:20 11/02/15.
=====================================================================
       BugCheck Dump
=====================================================================

This file is generated by Microsoft SQL Server
version 10.50.6220.0
upon detection of fatal unexpected error. Please return this file,
the query or program that produced the bugcheck, the database and
the error log, and any other pertinent information with a Service Request.


Computer type is Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2670 0 @ 2.60GHz.
Bios Version is VRTUAL - 5001223
BIOS Date: 05/23/12 17:15:53  Ver: 09.00.06
2 X64 level 8664, 10 Mhz processor (s).
Windows NT 6.1 Build 7601 CSD Service Pack 1.

Memory
MemoryLoad = 80%
Total Physical = 2047 MB
Available Physical = 399 MB
Total Page File = 4095 MB
Available Page File = 2497 MB
Total Virtual = 8388607 MB
Available Virtual = 8386265 MB
**Dump thread - spid = 0, EC = 0x0000000000000000
***Stack Dump being sent to C:\db\MSSQL10_50.SQLEXPRESS\MSSQL\LOG\SQLDump0001.txt
* *******************************************************************************
*
* BEGIN STACK DUMP:
*   11/02/15 11:45:24 spid 1816
*
* Non-yielding Resource Monitor
*
* *******************************************************************************
* -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
* Short Stack Dump