restoring status of a database
I have restored a database from a backup, and the restore is OK. I went into it checking security is Ok, tables are OK, Then after a few hours I logged in again, and see the database is at restoring...
View ArticleUPDATE STATISTICS WITH FULL SCAN - High reads than normal
Hi Update statistics when it runs with full sampling, reads high amount of data. my database size is 300GB and update stats is reading TBs of data from the data drive. Did anyone come across...
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Windows authentication
Hi,i got this error message when i try to access the database using SQL authentication.Error Message - "A connection was successfully established with the server, but then an error occurred during the...
View ArticleBrowse SQL servers on other subnet
Hi!We have several SQL servers located on several subnets, and some users want to be able to use the browse function when they connect to a SQL servers instead of typing in the hostname manually. But...
View Articlesql server service terminated unexpectedly
A SQL crash has occurred on a clustered SQL Server 2008 R2 SP2 system. The service crashed and restarted itself, any pointers? Error in event log: The SQL Server service terminated unexpectedly. It has...
View ArticleSSMS vs. SQLCMD performance
Hi, I see very different performance when running the below setup in the same set of queries in SSMS and SQLCMD locally on a SQL server 2008 R2 cluster.Scripts to run:create new empty database and one...
View ArticleDuplicate Records in SQL Server table
Hello Everyone,I had one question which is ambgituos. Please see below my questionI have one table in SQL server which contain duplicate records. Is it Possible to create unique index on the table?I...
View ArticleDatabase connection error40
A network-related or instance-specific error occured while establishing a connection to sql server.The server was not found or was not accessible.Verify that the instance name is correct and that sql...
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 ArticleDatabase restoration on different machiness
Hi All MS SQL server 2008 Web edition , db size is 5 GB has try to restored on Dell machine(SAS ) its completed with in One(<2) min. Ms sql server edition and size also same , i am trying to...
View Articlepage life expanctancy low
We have a SQL server 2008, we are experiencing low performance these days, when a SSIS run, that copies data from one database to another, the server runs slow, and causing latency of other servers...
View ArticleTemp db size is increasing not releasing space
Hi All MS sql server 2008R2(RTM) STD 64 bit, Temp db size is continuously increasing not releasing used up space , please suggest us what is the problem with my temp db ? i executed below query ,...
View ArticleWho knew a select could deadlock an insert
I guess I'm not the first to see this, mine looked like:select x.* from keytable k inner join bigtable x on k.akey = x.akey; --- insert into keytable select distinct akey from #somewhere;Each statement...
View ArticleNetwork problem when connecting......
The error shown below: TITLE: Connect to Server ------------------------------ Cannot connect to ADMIN-PC\SQLSERVER2008. ------------------------------ ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: A network-related or...
View ArticleRestore Database
Ideas on how to make a restore database faster? We have a huge database and we moved it to a slower drive due to budget constraints. I have the backup on 8 different files to make the backup faster; I...
View ArticleDevice is not ready
Hi allThere are so many error logs on eventlog showing that "Device is not ready"and in detail it is showing master.mdf . SQL service is still on, however can't get into the database through the...
View ArticleDatabase snapshot cannot be created in multi user mode but in single user...
Msg 1823, Level 16, State 2, Line 1A database snapshot cannot be created because it failed to start.Msg 5123, Level 16, State 1, Line 1CREATE FILE encountered operating system error 5(Access is...
View ArticlePhysical memory usage is very high..
HI All,i am going threw high physical memory usage in SQL Server. It always around 90%.When i reboot the server, it will initially good but end of the day it will around 90to 95% physical memory...
View ArticleHow can I create a database connection (ODBC) from Windows 8 to a XP machine?
I have SQL 2008 installed on an XP machine with Windows Authentication. Today, I got a machine with Windows 8 in it. Both have the same user name, but different passwords as Windows 8 requires a...
View ArticleSQL 2012 errors 3417, 18053, 701
First off let me make clear that I am -not- a dba. I'm a Windows server admin so I don't know anything about queries or other SQL specific stuff. So when people tell me to "check this" or "do that", it...
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