recommended affinity settings for SQL Server 2008 R2 running on VMWare servers
In SSMS 2008 R2, we currently have "Automaticall set both Processor and IO affinity for all processors" set. Since the servers that SQL is running on are VM servers, is this the recommended affinity...
View ArticleCouple of questions
Hi All,I have 3 questions. Some one kindly answer those.1) If a table of size 50GB, having no indexes if we create an clustered index on that then what will be the size of that index?2) If a table is...
View Articlenot able to add buildin admin as login ..sql server 2008 express edition
i have added my AD group in the local administration of the server ... but facing issue while adding a new login .. (SA is disabled on the instance)im getting below error Microsoft Windows [Version...
View ArticleAdobe PDF IFilter for document searches does not work
I am new to full text indexing of documents but I know enough to get the files into the database and apply indexing and searches because I got it to work for Word (.doc) files. I'm trying to get...
View ArticleLogical Read and Write
Hi Is there any way to find out logical read and write on database by application other than using profiler trace?. Our main server is mixture of OLTP+reporting server. We use qlikview for reporting...
View ArticleAccess SQL Server 2012 FileTable Share from non-domain computer
I've tried to find this out on my own but am hitting a couple of dead ends. I'm excited for the opportunity to use a UNC path to a SQL Server FileTable that I've set up with non-transacted access set...
View ArticleGetting absolute sequence number
In profiler there's an EventSequence field, but apparently it's an artifact of profiler and not available to a transaction.Is there any kind of absolute sequence number for transactions available to...
View ArticleUnable to create Full Text catalog after reverting from DB Snapshot in SQL...
After reverting to a database snapshot that contains Full Text indexes, it does not allow you to re-create Full Text catalogs until you either restart SQL Server Service, detach/attach the DB, or take...
View Articledisk I/O
We have a SQL server with 25 GB RAM, it is used for data warehouse. When the user restores one of their big databases, it slows down the network, and sometimes caused Exchange server down. The data and...
View ArticleSQL Health Check Script.
Hi,I need a SQL health check script, or powershell script, in where we just provide a servername as input in stored proedure or powershell and it shoots a mail to me with complete health check...
View ArticleSQL Server database with multilingual support
The requirement is to support multiple language in same database. I know, there are multiple process involved in this. There are design considerations in Database layer, Business layer and Presentation...
View ArticleStatistics update
Hi,we have one one sp which contains select statement which will be fired for every 15min when i tried to tune the query using recommendations of sql query optimizer in it. It was recommending to...
View ArticleRoundHouse versioning with SQL server
Hi All,Can anyone guide me to get through in ROUNDHOUSE version with SQL SERVER?Thanks in Advance.
View ArticleSQL on VM, but disks on SAN
My question relates to what happens when you have to rollback the VM.If all your databases are on a SAN and the SQL Server is on a VM, but you rollback your VM, won't the state of SQL and the state of...
View ArticleResource governour, level out time ??
Hi all,I set up a workload group and associated resource pool to limit cpu usage for certain users to 30 %.If I now start a workload for a user in default pool (no limits) and shortly after the same...
View ArticleSQL Express 2012 on server can't connect from client Windows 7 machine
I have installed SQL Express 2012 on our windows small business server. After installation, I recreated a database from a .bak file.Then I tried to create a dsn from my network Windows 7 machine and...
View Articlecan backup leave database in restoring state?
I recently had a problem with the 'model' database remaining stuck in RESTORING state and keeping SQL Server from starting up. I eventually recovered by restoring system databases from a 10 days old...
View ArticleBackup Script: Any Script that shows Backup next running schedule with history?
Hi guys looking for Backup history script which shows when was last time backup taken ,backup type andnext schedule for run?for sql 2005 and 2008 .ThanksPlease Mark As Answer if it is helpful. \\Aim...
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