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SQL Server 2008 Fully Patched Enterprise Edition Database in Full Recovery Model Logs backed up every 15 minutes All indexes fully optimized =================================Thanks for looking at my...
View ArticleSQL Server Agent Jobs not running 'SQL Server Agent is not currently running...
Hello All,We have sql 2008 R2 SP1 A/P cluster running on VM.SQL Server Agent jobs are not running. If I manually try to run the job it gives below error'SQL Server Agent is not currently running so it...
View ArticleSQL 2005 Jobs randomly fail with authentication error?
I dump the tran logs every hour and am getting random failures of the job to authenticate? Owner is sa, so how can it fail? No system or application event errors related to this. We have already...
View ArticleOracle to SQL Server Migration estimation
Hi,I am working on an Oracle to SQL Server migration project and need help with the estimation of stored procedures. What criteria needs to be used for estimation? Currently I need to provide...
View ArticleDatabase Mirroring problem
Hi All,I am facing problem regarding mirroring. In our domain we have 2 serversVk-srv-py and Vk-srv-fb. on both only login (vk-srv-user )have the access to login(Which is not Domain account) and on...
View ArticleData loss when transaction fails caused by full C drive
I knew that bad things can happen if the C: drive fills but apparently this can cause SQL Server to neither commit or correctly rollback a transaction?This occured on SQL Server 2008 R2 in a database...
View Articlehow to avoid the loss of users during backup and restore activity
Hi,I have a database with 100+users . If i restore the DB from some other environment, the entire Db is restored including the users. So my old 100+ users where not able to connect to the databases. Is...
View ArticlePerformance issue
Hi AllIf 250 blockings occured on the database,genarally performance is down. i know how to resove if less blockings occured on the database so can any one explain this type of scenario and how we can...
View Articlehow to find max no of connections worked/connected on sql server instance.
Hi Experts,I am looking for,how to get the max no of sessions/connections on sql server instance ever in last 5 days. Oracle has one report called AWR to get such information, Does Sql Server equipped...
View ArticleGetting many FlushCache messages in SQL Error log
Hello,Since few days ago I am getting several messages like the one below. Any idea what should I do? FlushCache: cleaned up 6611 bufs with 6381 writes in 90940 ms (avoided 462 new dirty bufs) for db...
View ArticleBackup with checksum
The sql server has an option for checking checksum after creating backup(WITH CHECKSUM).I want to know whether sql server needs extra time to backup with checksum than the normal backup?
View ArticleHow to import extended event data into a table without UI
I have an event session which created files I would like to import into a table, I want to have the columns I watched showing columns on the table I am importing into one of which is post execution...
View ArticleDatabase email issue for an maintenance work
Hi,We do have an daily indexreorganise task done and we have an email sent on completion to selected users.Now for some days now we are not receiving emails from the SQL server agent job. However other...
View ArticleQuestion on Indexing
Hello All,I have just started my career as a SQL DBA and this is my first post.I have a primary key on a column that is a unique identifier (width 32 char) and it is nonclustered. There are a lot of...
View ArticleSQL Server Alias Configuration
Hello,I have a question to create a SQL Server Alias to move an SQL Cluster instance to a new hardware.Our environment looks like, that we have a Windows Server 2008 R2 Cluster Installation. On this...
View ArticleIn order for the new setting to take effect for max worker thread do we need...
I want to change the max worker thread value to 0 [as of now its >0] for few of my server and after setting up the value to 0, do I need to recycle sql services in order to new setting to take...
View ArticleRunning DTS package through job in SQL Server 2008
Hi,I have imported DTS packages from SQL Server 2000 to 2008. Under Management-Legacy they show there. I already changed connection strings before importing. I want to run these dts packages through...
View ArticleDatabase migration from SQL server 2008 to SQL Express edition 2008/2012
Hello,We are planning for migration of one of our DBs from SQL Server 2008 Server to SQL Server Express Edition 2008/2012.1) Can this migration happen from SQL 2008 to SQL Server Express Edition 2012...
View ArticleQuerying extended Events XML WaitTypes and Duration
I'm querying Xevents XML that I have collected, and there is something that I dont quite understand, my definition is for statements taking more than 100 milliseconds and also get the wait type as...
View Articlehow to convert this query into merge statement in sqlserver 2008 R2?
Hi ,i am facing this issue from last 3 days actually the below query fulfilled my requrirement but this code is rejected by lead and asked to make it as merge statement.my actual query...
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