Good Maxdop value in SQL 2014
I have a server with 2 physical CPU's, hyper threaded ratio at 12 which makes it 24 logical CPU's.Currently, Maxdop is set to default.Should I be making a change as per the MS best practice
View Articletempdb configuration for 24 logical cores
Hi,I have a server with 2 processors, 12 cores each making it a 24 core logical system.My tempdb has 4 datafiles and 4 logfiles created.I know creating more number of log files in tempdb may not make...
View ArticleHow to test Random/sequential ratio?
Hello everyone,I am checking some ratio numbers for our system engineers, those are Read/write ratio?Random/sequential ratio?Read/write block size?For Read/write ratio, I am using below...
View ArticleSQL with High availability, disaster recovery and online (read only) reports...
We are looking for different solutions of following requirements on SQL Server 2012/14 version:1- High availability, 24X72- Well planned Disaster recovery3- Online system (read only) for reporting...
View Articledynamic quorum
We have a two node windows cluster with file share witness. We had to reboot secondary replica and for some reason we lost connection to file share at the same time. Suddenly, the cluster service was...
View ArticleCan't release space of temdb
tempdb on a server is at 171 GB with 99% free space.I tried shrinking the file, the database and using the ALTER Database command.I tried shrinking the data file from the GUI and eventually I loses my...
View ArticleInterview Question
There is a table call Table1 and it has 2 columns SSN - unique column and timestampThere are duplicates values in SSN. How to find the earliest of those duplicates? what is the t-sql query?
View ArticleAvailabilty Groups - adding one more listener
Hi,We have a server A and a server B setup with SQL2014 High Availability - working fine.I need to add an additional listener to our new DR site. What is the best way to do this without impacting...
View Articlecan we stop SQL server Browser ??
We have a 4 node cluster environment with multiple instances, Due to vulnerability issues of UDP port 1434 , they asked me to stop the SQL browser services ? Is it advisable to stop the SQL browser...
View ArticleUpgraded from 2008 to 2014, queries slowed to a crawl
Hi. We recently upgraded our ERP system and went from SQL Server 2008 to 2014. We also upgraded our hardware (faster, better everything). Suddenly all of the queries we have embedded in various .NET...
View Articlehow to delete a login linked with endpoints ??
I am planning to delete a login from SQL logins because he moved out from project .when i try to delete the login , it throws an error saying " The server principal owns an endpoint and cannot be...
View ArticleTablespace concept in SQL SERVER 2014
Hi Folks,I've a requirement from new team to setup their development in our server, and I want to give them a table space with 1GB space, so they can do whatever they want in that particular space.In...
View ArticleFreelancer
HiI would like to offer my services as SQL Server freelancer.Where is the right place to do so here at SQLServerCentral?Thank you
View Article*****HELP!!! Cant find SQL SERVER AGENT Error Message******
My team just recently moved to SQL server 2014 from 2008 R2. We are migrating our SSIS packages to 2014 as well. I set up the SQL server logging provider to log OnError and PostExcecute events but the...
View ArticleResources for SQL Server security
Hi guys,I'm a database developer, but I've been trying to edify myself about aspects of SQL security (specifically I'm interested in learning about Transparent Data Encryption).I have a book on...
View ArticleSQL server 2014 SSIS package fails when run as sql server agent job
Hi all I have a package which runs perfectly fine when excuted as package but it fails when i calll it through agent job .package
View Articletrouble shooting the always on
can any one provide the document on trouble shooting the issues on always on in sql 2102
View Articlealerts on AG
we are getting frequently alerts on AG as primary is not ready for automatic failover in availability group I checked the secondary and AG is configured in synchronous mode how can we resolve this alert?
View ArticleHigh memory usage - SQL server
Hi All,SQL server service is using excessive memory. 128 GB is the total server memory, 100 GB allocated to SQL. But the available memory on the server is getting low day by day. Now its less than 4 GB...
View ArticleHow is a program licensed on SQL Server 2014
The scenario is as follows:One program is installed on a terminal server. The program is used by several users simultaneously. The program uses the same account to access the SQL Server installed on a...
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