SSD vs SAS query needed
I am testing the disk IO performance of SSD vs SAS drives. I am trying to generate high on adventure works database for this. Are there any scripts that can help me with this stress testing which cause...
View ArticleSingle user mode session lost after backgound processes jump in
We have an application running on SQL server. This application restores DB very frequently using Single user mode. Following are the SQLs that are executed to restore the database in single user mode...
View ArticleSend a email with Agent job MSSQL
hello I need help I'm trying to send an email using the MSSQL agent work when trying to send mail to the domain user initiating agent services DOAIN MSSQL \ SqlService error message Msg 22050, Level...
View ArticleLogin failed for user ‘sa’ because the account is currently locked out.
Hi, I have read many of the postings, however my current windows account does not have SA privileges. So every time I try to runALTER LOGIN sa WITH PASSWORD = ’yourpass’ UNLOCK ;GOOf course you can...
View ArticleConnecting to local server connects to wrong instance
I have a SQL 2008r2 server that is running multiple instances. At first, it was just running the default instance but I had to create an additional instance to house SCCM databases because he...
View Articledegree of parellelism
what is degree of parallelism in sql server . how to enable that option using ssmspradeep kumar reddy
View ArticleSQL Uninstallation ?
Dear All,I have 2 SQL 2000 instance in our production Server. Those instance are Desktop Engine and one is runing and another one is Disable mode, i want uninstall disable mode instance. In Control...
View ArticleSQL Server 2012 Service Pack 1, installation fails.
Hi !! I have a small issue with the SP1 for SQLServer 2012, whan applying the Service Pack everything works, but when you restart your SQL Server Servie, it will not start, the restart is so that the...
View ArticleSQL Server backup with INIT options
Hi,Question : Draw back of using INIT option Vs taking the backup first and then deleting the older backup file (in particular SQL Server backup files)There is a great debate in getting the disk space...
View ArticlePackets sent/received hourly difference
Hi,We are logging packets sent /received per hour on our production sql server. What does it mean if at certain hour we have much more packets sent than received?Thanks
View Articlelive lock
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View ArticleError 3621 Transaction is rolled back when accessing version store
Transaction is rolled back when accessing version store. It was earlier marked as victim when the version store was shrunk due to insufficient space in tempdb. This transaction was marked as a victim...
View ArticleSQL Server 2008 Fragmentation stats not updating after Reindex
SQL Server 2008 SP3Thanks for reviewing my question.I do periodic reindexing (not reorganizing) and sometimes I will go in and review some tables and indexes for performance issues while doing some...
View ArticleSQL Server 2012 syspolicy_purge_history fails step 3 "Erase Phantom System...
I recently installed SQL Server 2012 Ent (x64). The install is a stand alone default instance.The syspolicy_purge_history job fails on step three with the following error:Executed as user:...
View ArticleDeleting log file
Hi All,We need to do a DB deployment on Production server, but that will take a space of about 200 GB, we have T-log Log1 at D drive. but we do not have enough space. hence we are planning to add a new...
View ArticleUpdate to linked server AS/400 runs forever
Hi, I have a linked server to a AS/400 mainframe. SELECT queries run fine and are fast. But the update runs forever and I can't even kill the process. I tried the following: UPDATE...
View ArticleSQL Server Memory Problem
Hi,I had come across an issue recently where the SQL server 2008 instance stopped accepting any connections and became unresponsive. I had to restart the SQL server to bring it back.The bellow error is...
View ArticleSQL Disk Dependency problem on SQL 2008 cluster including errors
Hi All,I have a SQL 2008 cluster running with 2 nodes, and what I have recently noticed is that a snapshot creation code has been failing. I checked the cluster dependency property on the SQL...
View ArticlePerformance of different INSERT styles
Hi all,What is difference between these two styles of TSQL code:WHILE 1...to...1000BEGININSERT ... VALUES(...)END----------------------BEGIN TRANWHILE 1...to...1000BEGININSERT ... VALUES(...)ENDCOMMIT...
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