Things to consider when applying hot fix to production server (SQL SERVER...
Hi All,We are currently using Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 (SP1) - 10.50.2500.0 (X64) Enterprise Edition (64-bit) on Windows NT 6.1 (Build 7601: Service Pack 1) as our production dataware house...
View ArticleCreating a view becomes a SYSTEM object?!
We run a SQL Server 2000 instance v8.00.2249(ye, I know...) on which I wish to create a view. I have the SA-role, the view is created as a system object: type System instead of User. This means other...
View ArticleIs DBCC CHECKDB increase log size
Hi Everyone,I want to know if a DBCC CHECKDB increases the database log file/generates log...--Thanks in advanceKP
View Articlescript to extract list of users, roles and table permissions from sql 2000 db
Does anyone have a script that will create a list of users, roles and table permissions on a db in sql 2000? If you could provide, that would be great. Thanks.
View ArticleDoes Backup Log break shipping?
Hi all, I am told that full backups definitely do not affect Log shipping, but what about Backup Log?Thanks, BLL
View ArticleIdera SQL Check: idling in transaction (dangerous)
I am using the freeware SQL Check app from Idera, and in the processes window, I have some SPIDs with big fat red balls with blue centers. According to the legend, these are connections that are idling...
View ArticleUser session memory
Is there a way to find out how much memory a user session is taking? I have an application that is creating about 1000 sessions into the database. I would like to find out if there is way to figure out...
View ArticleReplication-Replication Distribution Subsystem: agent ********* scheduled for...
Hi Every one.Due to some issue we restarted our server.After restarting we are observing the below error.Error1:Replication-Replication Distribution Subsystem: agent *** scheduled for retry....
View ArticleQuerry on Reintializaion of inactive subscription
In our scenario we are having two servers. There is transactional up datable replication in between those two serversOne is A server which i primary server.Secondary server is B Server which is having...
View ArticleLarge master database
Hello All,SQL Server 2000 SP4. My master database file is over 1 gigabyte. This seems excessive. I am trying to create some additional disk space. Is this size normal? Can anything be archived or...
View ArticleDeadlocked SQL Agent job
Hi,I have a SQL 2000 Agent job that executes a stored procedure which populates a table from a file.The code in the SP is not within a transaction and the EXEC of the proc is also not in a transaction....
View ArticleSQL Server on a virtual server
Hi,I'm collecting information, recommendations about advantages and disadvantages of usage a virtual server for a [b] SQL Server in production[/b] environment.Do you any test results or benchmarks...
View Article'Log Shipping Alert Job - Backup/Restore' jobs
Hi all,We have these jobs installed as part of Log Shipping, however we have unavoidable interference during night-times when log shipping is driven several hours out of synch (which we can...
View ArticlePAGEIOLATCH_EX
Environment:SQL Server 2000 sp38 CPUs Auto Statistics option is ONSimple Recovery ModeIssue:Running a batch of INSERT statements that has been running for a very long time during development of a...
View ArticleNegative number in SP_Spaceused
Hi all, DBName 159423.88 MB -1234567mbAs the title says, the unallocated space was a negative number, and that is AFTER having run DBCC UpdateUsage.However, i ran -Exec sp_spaceused @updateusage =...
View ArticleDetecting Detached Databases
I've many databases on the server I've inherited. Some are detached and rather than manually check each db to see which is attached/detached I'm trying to find a sql script method that will tell me....
View ArticleDatawarehouse recomended trace flags that need to be set to help performance
Datawarehouse recomended trace flags that need to be set to help performance We have a huge database and are looking for some performance help. Would data compression help? or setting specific trace...
View ArticleBCP packet size not working
I have a Window 2008 R2 server 64-bit, SQL 2008 Enterprise 64-bit RTM I am doing large (hundred of millions of rows) BCP jobs and set the -a switch to 65535 but they all run at 32576 which I know was...
View ArticleLog Shipping jobs mysteriously stop
I have a very mysterious and stange issue with Log shipping backup jobs: I have over 60+ dbs and they will all stop running for about 7 hours from midnight to 7am on Sunday morning. No error messages,...
View ArticleReplication problem
Hi GuysWhereas I did not find my problem here, I am posting the new one.Actually I set up a transactional replication on sql 2000 and it works properly except keys are not created on subscriber!Thanks...
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