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Hi Gurus,How to check database status whether it is running fine and transaction log size and database log size is fine or not.What are the safety metrics to observe the performance.Appreciate your...
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Issue:SQLconnection memory usage is growing steadily (8G after only 2 days). It can keep increasing and eventually eat all allocated memory and none process can be going on.System:SQL 2008 R2 on...
View ArticleDBCC query in production server
Hi All,Let me know how can i check integrity of DB which is more than 500 GB size.Thanks
View ArticleTurn recovery model from to .
SQL Sever 2005/2008Hi everybody,a question:I have a database in PROCTION set as <simple> for recovery model.I would like to turn from <simple> to <full>.My question is:Is it possible...
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Here is an intresting dilema which i am trying to resolve, may be some one can help me.I am trying to Calculate week number along in Date table. I have two week column, One that starts with Sunday and...
View ArticleOptions to get memory consumption breakdown in sql server engine
Hi,I assigned 20 Gig of memory to my SQL server and it is taking the full amount of assigned memory.What are my options to get a breakdown of how the 20 gig is being consumed inside SQL server?Thank you
View ArticleWhat is the best practice for database file growth configuration?
Hi:With SQL 2005 and above, instant disk initialization, and SAN that has SSD (solid State disk), fast disk and slow disk, what is the best practice for database file, log file auto growth...
View ArticleThree instances on same box, one significantly slower.
Our pre-production environments -- Test, Stage, and Preview -- are housed on a single server. Stage has been significantly slower than the others for as long as I have been here (two years). Even...
View Articlesp_trace_gettable error
We have a trace set up to collect long running transaction data. This is part of our admin database and runs on each monitored instance in our environment. We are seeing that while our 2005 instances...
View ArticleWhat all database operations are logged in transaction log
I would like to know that what all operations are used to logged in transaction log?Please also suggest if any blog or white paper for this details.advance thanks!Regards Vikas Pathak
View ArticleDatabase mirroring connection error 4 'An error occurred while receiving...
We are running SQL Server 2008 R2 RTM database mirror high performance mode without the witness. We recently had several disconnections between the primary and the mirror. Each time lasted less than 1...
View ArticleSQL Database engine question
Hi,I have windows 2003 x64 edition. It's a two node cluster(Active-Passive), The database engine has SQL 2008 SP1. Also there is another instance of SQL Reporting services(SQL 2008 R2 version) running...
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 ArticleDatabase Integrity
Hi All,Am new to sqlserver dba.May i know what are the factors to be observed to make the database in safeside, I mean to say ldf size,mdf size.what should be size of it and maximum size of...
View ArticleSQL 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 ArticleMS SQL certification or OCA/OCP ??
Hi I don't know whether to take the Microsoft® SQL Server® 2008 Certification OR Oracle OCA/OCP.Stir me right, which is best to study for an aspiring DBA?And, what is the first step for registering for...
View ArticleAuto lock escalation and bulk insert - still locking
Hi all,I am having some trouble with using auto lock escalation on a partitioned table.In a very simple example, I have a table partition on an INT key.I load to it in bulk using SSIS with a DTC...
View ArticleSQL Disk IO Latency
Hello All,In one of our production environments we have high disk IOPS. Currently we have the environment built up on a SAN. After noticing the spikes in IOs we have the tested the performance against...
View Articlelogical read, physical write in profiler data columns
In the profiler, there are data columns called "Reads" and "Writes". According to BOL, "Reads" are logical reads and "Writes" are physical writes.Is there any reason we don't have access to both...
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