A fatal error occurred in .NET Framework runtime. SPID = Service Broker...
Hi All, I am having trouble with root cause analysis of a fatal error occurring on one our our SQL2008 R2 Enterprise 64bit production servers.We are experiencing intermittent issue with the SQL service...
View ArticleWhat's the criteria that the indexes would be updated?
I have a Sql Server table which has 5 non-clustered indexes.Question: when I insert a new row into the table, these indexes would be updated immmediately? If not, what's the criteria that these indexes...
View Articlelogin failure error in event log daily
error in event log daily when full backup job starts as------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------The...
View ArticleActivity Monitor error
Hi,I just started activity monitor on sql server 2008 standard edition X64. When I clicked processes, after some delay there is error message:The activity monitor is unable to execute queries against...
View ArticleSQL Server 2008 R2 Ent Memory Problem
the problem we are having is our SQL Server's memory usage is very strange. What i mean if i use the resource mon it only shows my SQL instance gaining memory in the Commit(7GB of Memory) where the...
View ArticleOdd behaviour from sys.dependencies
(SQL Server 2008 R2 SP1) Hi all, I have an SSIS package that dynamically builds a set of SQL statements based on the dependencies in a set of procs. The SSIS package makes use of the dm function...
View ArticleCan I manually adjust memory grant for my query?
Hi everybody,I have a query with not optimally estimated cardinalities which results in large tempdb spills (sys.dm_exec_query_memory_grants says the query gets 1,8 Gb. After query is run in a separate...
View ArticleNeed material to discuss with DBAs that indexes are not only the production...
Hey guys,I am consulting for one of the clients and recently got into an awkward situation. The DBA told me that the group thinks that application and removal of indexes should only be done by DBAs...
View Articlesql 2008 filestream file size vs physical file size on disk difference
I have a sql 2008 filestream enabled database. We had a large number of records (400,000) that we have been deleting over the course of the last few months and when I look at sys.master_files for the...
View ArticleThe provider ran out of memory
When I try to open excel file, I get the following error(the same is if i try it with linked server):SELECT * FROM OPENROWSET('Microsoft.ACE.OLEDB.12.0', 'Excel 12.0;Database=c:\Temp\excelFile.xlsx',...
View ArticleList Partitioning in SQL Server 2012
Hi I got a requirement to partition the table on year, the column datatype is int and the values are like 03,04,05,06,07,08,09,10,11,12,13,14 etc..Does SQL Server only supprts RANGE partitioning?Can...
View ArticleEnstablish a DB Mirror session between SQL Server 2008R2 and SQL Server 2012
Hi all,I've a SQL Server 2008R2 Enterprise Edition instance, I wanto to mirror one database of this instance in an other machine in which there is a SQL Server 2012 Standard Edition instance. Is it...
View ArticleView efficient or not
I have a view, if we runs it individually in SSMS, it runs ok, but we have a batch process at night that uses it for each individual. so overall it makes the process slow.Now we change the view to...
View Articlearchive audit log in SQL Server 2008 R2
Hi there,I was just exploring audit features provided in MS SQL Server 2008, i found it interesting and easy to configure, however what i would like to know is that can i configure audit role over...
View ArticleDatabase Mail : Mail Not queued DBMAIL is stopped....
Hello I tried for hours to get my Database mail work, without success, on SQL Server 2005 ent Edition 64bit SP3 in cluster environment I send mail with the test : USE msdb GO EXEC sp_send_dbmail...
View ArticleRecovery model for Datawarehouse databases
Hi We are building up a new Datawarehouse environment where there will be lot of of Inserts/Updates/Deletes will be happening. i would like to know what is the recommended recovery model for databases...
View ArticleSplit existing Partition - Grows log file in GBs and take hours to run
Hi,I have an existing table with around 200 Million rows and couple of partitions.I would like to split the partitions e.g. the Latest partition hold the data where date >= '2012-01-01' and I want...
View ArticleHigh CPU utilization by SQL server 2008 R2 SP2 when no Application is...
Hi, I have sql server 2008 R2 SP2 installed ,the memory utilization is normal but sqlserver.exe process is taking 97 % of CPU even when no application is accessing it,no job is running, in fact its new...
View ArticleCopy SQL Server 2012 database with SMSS
I want to copy a database within the same SQL Server 2012 Developer instance (e.g. from database1 to database1_new). Here are the steps I followed in SMSS * Right click on database > Tasks >...
View ArticleLog Truncation
Hi,I have a database of 'Sql Server 2008R2 Express' with Simple Recovery Model.When I delete lots of database records, the physical size of the log file increases.how can I reduce the size of log file?...
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