spid -4 blocking the transactions
Hi All,We encountered a situation today where the spid -4 was blocking the transactions. We're not able to kill it as it was not treated as a valid spid by SQL server. We tried to get the UOW using...
View ArticleSecurity hole? sql 2008 "FILESTREAM" share......
I was reviewing a sql 2008 serer and noticed it has a share called"MSSQLSERVER" that maps to \\?\GLOBALROOT\Device\RsFx0103\<local machine>\MSSQLSERVERIt's described as being "SQL Server...
View ArticleSQL Server 2008 R2 Maintenance Plan
I have a SQL Server 2008R2 server configured that hosts multiple databases. The SQL Server (MSSQLSERVER) service uses a local system account.I attempted to setup a maintenance plan that including a...
View ArticleConnection pooling to Informix linked server
Hello everyone, I have this issue with number of concurent connection to Informix db server which is actualy linked server in SQL 2012. Speaking in other words, my application is querying SQL server,...
View ArticleWhy there is only one record per page for the second extent?
I did the test using the following script, and I found there was two records per page for the first and third extents , but there was only one record per page for the second extent, Why ? BTW, you...
View ArticleSQL Server 2000 Slow Response - Need quicker solution
Hi Guys,Can any one suggest to monitor tools or scripts to verify the process causing the high CPU by sql server executable. Thanks.MRVSFLY
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 Articlesqlagent service startup timeout
Hello,We're using SQL enterprise 2000 sp3 with windows server 2003 sp1 and sometimes when we reboot this server, sqlagent service cannot startup(30s timeout) but no any error state out(from sqlserver...
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How to start clustering?
Hi all,Do we need to enable this feature in widows to install failover clustering?Kindly any one provide a proper guide to install SQL SERVER FAILURE CLUSTERING FROM SCRATCH (With Windows)?
View ArticleUsing DatabAse Mail System
HI Team,Want To Use DataBase MAil System. Can you Help us in sharing some perfect blogs/books/reference for the same. I want to Automatically Excel File From DataBase in SQL and Mail it through the SQL...
View ArticleStatus of index
Hi,Are indexes in SQLServer become invalid because of some reason (i.e. partition operations like split/merge), or becauseof any other reason? If yes, then how to find out index which has become...
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Transactional 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 ArticleLinked Server query to Sybase ASE very slow
On my MSSQL 2008R2 64bit server, I setup a linked server to Sybase by using Sybase ASE OLEDB driver.When I tried to run a SELECT/UPDATE/DELETE linked server query which should be covered by the table's...
View ArticlePartition table with non-clustered index
Hi,I am in sqlserver 2005 developer edition. I have a table awrard_transaction which has refno column as primary key and has a primary key (unique clustered index on it), index name is...
View ArticleAlways On New Availability Group - Full backup is required
Just trying to create a New Availability Group for AlwaysOn , I see the database is listed, in the status it says: "Full backup is Required. The database is AdventureWorks2012, i have taken a full...
View ArticleRestore database
Hi All,while am restoring the database, am getting following error like database backup set already exists.my backup version is sql 2000 and am restoring in sql 2008.I checked overwrite option...
View ArticleClustered index and random inserts
Hi All,I know, there were threads on this subject before, however I want to put my specific question here.I am (still) on SQL 2000.There is a table with around 20M records and growing. There is a...
View Articlesysdatabases - list all databases without sysadmin
Is there any way to have Master.dbo.sysdatabases return all databases on the instance without being a sysadmin? I've tried granting view any database but that doesn't work. It just returns master,...
View ArticleTest/Prod. Create Login With SID. Is it a good idea?
Hello everybody,I have 3 environments Prod/Test/Dev where I (and other database developers) periodically need to transfer databases from Prod to Test or from Test to Dev (using backup/restore)....
View ArticleBackup/Restore Schemas (through file groups)
I would like to be able to backup and restore a schema, my database will have amulti-tenant scenario where each schema will have the same objects like tables etc...and I would like to be able to...
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