High Hard Faults /Sec and free mem
My Sql Server 2012 is running on server 2008. 72 Gb RamThe db memory settings are 30 GB Min and 64 GB Max (max for standard version)The SSAS is set to min 7 GB and max to 60 GB.When i have lots of...
View ArticleUpgraded 2008 R2 SP1 -> SP2, now BACKUP/CHECKPOINT on one DB fails
I upgraded 3 of our SQL servers from 2008R2 SP1 to 2008R2 SP2 Monday night. One database (out of 9 DBs on the 3 servers) can no longer run a backup or checkpoint.The error is:Msg 2601, Level 14, State...
View ArticleRetention, Skip, Init combination question
Hi all,I'm very inexperienced so be gentle :-). I have to guarantee that backups I do satisfy a certain requirement. A DBA from a partner company has told me how to do what I need. His understanding...
View ArticleDifference between Alter index and DBcc DBreindex
HI All,I would like to know the difference between Alter index and DBCC DBreindex and from the below URL i came to know that DBCC DBREINDEX feature will be removed in future versions of SQL Server and...
View ArticleSQL consistency based I/O error, help needed
Hello everyone.I'm new to database errors so I'm not really sure what I should do next. I'm using an accounting program running on SQL Server Express 2005 (9.0 SP3) on a Windows Server 2008R2. While...
View ArticleFailed to flush the commit table to disk in dbid 5 due to error 2601
I have a database with Change tracking enabled and when i tried to backup i got this error:Failed to flush the commit table to disk in dbid 5 due to error 2601. Check the errorlog for more...
View ArticleAnalysis Service database backup on daily basis and need to move backups to...
Hi All,I got a task to take Production server Analysis Service database backup on daily basis. And also a copy of these backup need to be moved another location/region(DR server) from production...
View ArticleOrphaned Statistics
Hi allHaving run a DTA recommendation through on our server, it has created indexes which I have deemed not useful. I have removed the offending indexes but not the associated statistics objects. Is...
View ArticleTransactional Replication Issue
Hi , We are setting up a new Sql Server for our testing environment and migrated the data from Old Server to the New one by Attaching the .Mdf Files.The Old server was already having replication...
View ArticleSQL Server 2008 detected a logical consistency-based I/O error
Hi, guys!I am using the SQL Server 2008 under Windows 2008 + SP2 and got the following error in the event viewer recently:SQL Server detected a logical consistency-based I/O error: incorrect checksum...
View ArticleMemory ISSUES In DR Server
Hi Team,We are getting memory usages 86 %.I have checked in windows task manager --> Process -- sqlserver.exe xxxuser 27,778,989 it was showing like thisCould any body please suggest me its DR...
View ArticleGranting user defined role to dbo
Hi,I have one login say test and executed:use <db name>gosp_changedbowner testI have user defined role role1 in this database.I want to grant role1 to test. Now test has user dbo in the database....
View ArticleHigh Single Core CPU Utilization
Hi, We have a single instance SQL Server 2008 R2 database on Windows 2008 R2, on a dedicated database server. We are noticing that one of the CPU cores is consistently having high utilization(almost...
View ArticleSQL Server Management Studio - Not Connecting To Database
Hi There!I've been looking online for a solution for a couple of days now and nothing seems to be working, I'm usingMicrosoft SQL Server Management Studio and I'm attempting to connect to a database, I...
View Articlerestore while backup job is running
We are using sql server 2008, planning to migrate to sql server 2012.We have an ETL process (job 1) that runs each night to restore data from server-A to server-B; We also have a backup job (Job 2) set...
View ArticleUnable to create foreign key
I have recreated some tables in a separate DB so that I can work on them without interuppting users. I have created these tables using a simple select * into otherDB.dbo.theTable from...
View ArticleCPU utilization is not evenly distributed on 4 numa system
It's quite often I see 2 numa node cpu's at 100% utilization the the remaining numa cpu's at around 20% or less average utilization. There are 160 visible schedulers in dm_os_schedulers dmv. The system...
View ArticleSplit Sort Collapse and CDC __$operation and __$update_mask
We have a (many actually) table with cdc turned on. I noticed in an update I did not specify exact keys as below the query plan shows a split sort collapse operation and interestingly cdc table shows...
View ArticleSQL 2008 R2 Failover Cluster
Hi all, I am trying to install SQL Server 2008 R2 failover cluster on Windows server 2012 OS. But I am getting the following error:-Downloaded the KB937444 and tried to install it but getting...
View ArticleMost I/O intensive query in last 6 hours
Hi All,I am on SQL 2008 R2.I want to find out which has been the most I/O intensive query on my data server in last 6 hours (or say 3 hours). How can I do that (without using Third party tools) ?Also,...
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