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Hi, We created some maintenance plans that created jobs. These jobs are running daily. When I checked job history by right clicking on job and view history, some jobs have history for last run and some...
View ArticlePartition function range
Hi,I have a question concerning partition function range. Description :I have 2 tables --> 1 Dimension Table (DimTime) and 1 Fact Table (FactData).DimTime has an auto-generated PK which is...
View ArticleInstance name doesn't matter in SSMS
Hi, We have 2 sql server 2008r2 named instances on the same box. They have different ports, 7001 and 7002. I noticed that when accessing to each of them, instance name doesn't matter. All it matters is...
View ArticleTempDB is full” error: solving interesting SQL Server issue.
I've an interesting SQL Server issue. It was rather strange that stored procedure works normally when I started procedure myself, by caused terrible influence on server when stared from SQL job. The...
View ArticleAdding BID trace points for intermittent ODBC timeout
One of our sites has an intermittent SQL Server timeout error. The error is infrequent, I'd say it happens two or three times a week, and this is on a site that only has a few users (literally)....
View ArticleQuery Actual Execution Plan Index Recommendations SQL Server 2012
In SQL Server 2008, if I execute a query and select 'include actual execution plan' then I would often get back the execution plan with recommended indexes. I don't seem to be getting back recommended...
View ArticleStack Dump - ex_handle_except encountered exception C0000005 - Server...
Hello - We are getting intermittent stack dumps. I have analyzed the dump in windbg, but I don't have enough experience with reading output to say with any confidence what might be happening, so I'm...
View ArticleQuestions regarding Partition in SQL SERVER 2008
Hi all, I want to create partition formation on some of our tables (we have SQL Server 2008 env'). The partition key will be date based. I've got several question, would appreciate you assistance. Is...
View ArticleBulk load data conversion error (type mismatch or invalid character for the...
I have a text file with the following structure: ID,Name,Age 1,abc,23 2,def,24 3,ghi,25 For this FMT file is as below: <?xml version="1.0"?> <BCPFORMAT...
View ArticleDB Mirroring AND Service Broker - Is it possible in SQL 2008 R2?
Don't really know if this should be posted in "High Availability and Disaster Recovery" or "Service Broker" so I post here in the generic forum. We have a three-server setup where almost all databases...
View Articlegetting my hands on stack trace
hi I have looked online but no avail ... how can I go about producing a stack trace on a local sql instance? i remember reading about it a while back but can't recall the link or the search term I...
View ArticleGetting Reads and Writes information on a table
Hi, I m trying to get reads\writes on a partitioned table which is around 20 GB in size. I want this at partition level ( like number of writes per partition in hour) We have a getdate on writes and...
View ArticleSteps to install service packs on active/active cluster
Hi All We have Install the Service Pack 3 on SQl server 2005, can you please let me know Installation Steps. Below Environment we have. We have Active/Active Cluster Environment on SQL Server 2005 SP...
View Articlefull text index
We have a whole bunch fo queries that "search" for clients, customers, etc. You can search by firstname, email, etc. We're using LIKE statements in the following manner: select * from customer where...
View ArticleSyntax error executing Maintenance Plan job
I'm running SQL 2005 SP2 on a cluster. I have a maintenance plan that backs up databases. When I execute the job associated with the plan, I get the following error: Unable to start execution of...
View Articlequery to find the last transaction happened on particular database in one server
Hi, I have requirement like I have multiple databases in one server,I would like to know what is the last transaction (insert,updates,deletes,etc..)happened in particular database and on which table....
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