Ssl Server 2014 RTM or Styandard - can you help?
I ran the following:SELECT SERVERPROPERTY('productversion') as 'Product Version', SERVERPROPERTY('productlevel') as 'Product Level', SERVERPROPERTY('edition') as 'Product Edition',...
View ArticleColumn level data encryption in SQL Server 2014
Hello All,I need to encrypt some column level data in multiple tables in SQL server 2014. I've never tried encryption in SQL server 2014. How can I achieve it? Any help/inputs is greatly...
View ArticleCopying system databases from SQL Server 2005 to 2014
Hi, We are doing a database upgrade to 2014 from 2005. I would like to know is it possible to copy across the system databases from 2005 to 2014 without any adverse effects.We have to do this as we...
View ArticleSet up AlwaysOn Replica for Reporting - Help needed
Hello Guys,I would like to setup replica for one of the databases for reporting. The current environment is a 2 node cluster(active/passive). I would like to add a 3rd node that can server as a...
View ArticleMaintenance commands affect on log file / log file maintenance without log...
I am testing some maintenance tasks sql commands such as index rebuild, index reorg, update statistics and db integrity check on a SQL Server 2014 Database. This is a new non-production vendor database...
View ArticleThe database size verses the backup size verses the restored database size
The database size is 570 the space available is 170 MB. The sql server native backup file size is 350 GBs. It appears the backup process removes the space available?It appears the restore process, adds...
View ArticleSQLProcessUtilization counter above 100%
Does anyone know why/when this counter exceeds 100%?It is obtained from sys.dm_os_ring_buffers DMV. normally it matches external CPU Utilization from resource manager but I have a workload where it...
View ArticleTransaction Log Usage Not Properly Reported In...
Consider this:Your initial Transaction Log size is 1GBYou are rebuilding a Clustered Index (it is about 16GB in size) andit is the only transaction in the database:alter index [PK_Project_members] on...
View ArticleFeedback on PDW
We are looking to scaleout ( archiving is not on table for now due to various reasons, i know would save lot of money and time), after briefly looking at cost of HW,OS and SQL licensing and VMWare, we...
View ArticleSide-effects of switching TRUSTWORTHY on a db
Hi, For various technical reasons - we have to switch the TRUSTWORTHY property on a live database to on. Any negative ramifications/potential gotchas of this you would like to share?Thanks,J.
View ArticleMore Extended Events Problems for me!
Afternoon (Good Morning, depending on time zone!)I am setting up extended events more or less just fine, however I am a bit confused as to how to read and load them into a table for querying. In...
View ArticleRun Profiler on Always ON Readonly database
Hello All,can any one please help me out how to run the profiler on always on read only database to trouble shoot an ssrs issue ?
View ArticleSQL Server 2014 SP2: SQL Server is not ready to accept new client connections
Hello,Today morning we noticed that our SQL Server started crashing and noticed the below error from Event Log / SQL Error Log:[color=#red]SQL Server is not ready to accept new client connections. Wait...
View ArticleOld backups will not delete
Have a SQL 2014 install and cannot for the life of me get the maintenance plan to remove old backups. I've tried everything. Rights to the folder where the backups are stored are adequate, extension...
View Articleinstal bids for 2014
Do i have to have visual studio 2013 if i want to upgrade the sql data tools to sql 2014?I currently have visual studio 2010. Actually it's not me it's a dev box but whatever. Will i have to upgrade...
View ArticleWindows Server 2012 vs 2012 R2
I asked for a Server to be provisioned for a SQL Server 2014 machine.The network came back and said that it would have Windows 2012.I ask him for 2012 R2.Finally he said that he did not have an image...
View ArticleAudit administrative logins
Hi all,I should audit all access by dba (italian privacy law) in my sql server , what is the best way? using the build in audit i can't achieve this goal, do i miss something?my sqlserver use windows...
View Articlefew record loss in table Primary key where same records exists in foreign key...
Previously same records exists in table having primary key and table having foreign key . we have faced 7 records were lost from primary key table but same record exists in foreign key table. What...
View ArticleHow to send email on scheduler job on both failure and success in MS SQL server
I have configured smtp email in MS sql server and configure email to schedular job when schedular jobs become failed. Can i configure email so that email will be sent from scheduler job on both success...
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