AG - High Avail - can't remove IP
Hi,I am using SQL2014 with HA/AG groups and was adding an extra listener when I used the incorrect IP address. I had thought the 'remove' button would work, but it does not. Also I tried deleting it...
View ArticleCheck Contraint VS Unique Index
Hello all i have a general question.We have a unique index on a table that is setup as a unique constraint. This gets thousands of writes and no reads. I was wondering what the difference would be if i...
View Articlefilegroup by table category
I'm being asked to create multiple filegroups for a new database based on the table type, transaction, lookup, misc... From what i'm reading this doesn't make sense. I'm reading either large tables get...
View ArticleChicken or the egg
Just interested to hear whether you guys are normally allocated a budget for designing a SQL solution, and build a design into it, or whether conversely you design the architecture according to...
View ArticleSQL Server Services are not Showing
Hi, I installed 2 instances , SQL Server 2012 (SP2) and SQL Server 2008R2 (SP3) in the Windows Server 2012. But in SQL Server configuration manager I can see only SQL Server 2008 services in SQL server...
View ArticleWith 2014, easier way to move text data from primary filegroup to a new...
I need to modify a table to reside on a new filegroup and also point TEXTIMAGE_ON to that filegroup instead of PRIMARY. Apparently in the past, the only way to achieve this via SQL is to create a new...
View ArticleServer Waits are High
I have observed there are high values showing-up for below Server waits in our Production Report Server (SSRS,Long Process SQL Jobs)QDS_cleanup_stale_Queries_Task_Main_Loop_sleepDirty_Page_Poolcan any...
View Article2014 AG install
All of what I ask about below is based upon enterprise editionI currently have 1 2008r2 active/passive cluster. I have another 2008r2 server that is log shipped to (one primary database) and also...
View ArticleSimple Recovery model
Hi expert,when we use Simple recover model we are not able to take Transaction log backup, but my doubt is, if we are not able to take Transaction Log backup, what is the use LDF file in Simple...
View ArticleMIGRATE DTS PACAKGES TO SQL SERVER 2012
Hi,Can this possible to migrate DTS packages to SQL SERVER 2012?we are planning to migrate a 50 DTS packages to 2012.Recreating the packages was bit difficult as they were created years back and were...
View ArticleQuestion on Virtual memory
Hello,We have windows 2012 server with 3TB of ram, where SQL server 2014 instance is hosted. curretnly Virtual memory is set to 60GB...we have an environment where we see virtual memory spikes whenever...
View ArticleMDS web interface issue
I was able to view the MDS entity through web interface. But now when i click on web interface I am not able to view it from internet explorer and Mozilla firefox. However when I try it from a...
View ArticleSome spid's Blocked By 2 SPid's without share table !!!
Hi 2 or 3 days we have huge number of Blocking. In most of them these sp's are Blocked By 2 specific SP. In addition in the same time that 2 Specific sp's are shown as open transaction. But This is...
View ArticlePhysical/Logical disk Sec/Read , Sec/Write
Hiwe transfered all servers to new datacenter . we have san and all servers are virtual . But this 2 counter values worried me :(in about 72 hours)server 1 : 1- Logical disk sec/read=0.069 , Logical...
View ArticleProblem attaching database to re-install of SQLExpress 2014
I have been running SQL 2014 Express for quite some time, I built a database with it and have used it in a pet project of mine in Visual Basic 2015. Recently I started my computer and attempted to run...
View ArticleClustered Columnstore Throughput
I'm currently experimenting with clustered columnstore indexes on a test system, and I have found compression to be high for my data warehouse - a previously 320GB database has now shrunk to 22GB.I...
View ArticleBenefit of In-Memory OLTP Structures on all flash arrays?
Is there any benefit to using "In-Memory" OLTP structures if SQL's data files are sitting on an "All flash array"? Thanks!
View ArticleConcatenate Random Date + Random Time = Error!
Morning All,This is driving me up the wall! I've used some info on here to generate random dates within a given range and also random times - independently they work fine, but I can't seem to join them...
View ArticleFG restore
is there a way to restore all filegroups except one?example:Database A has 10 filegroups, but 1 of them is defunct, so i cant delete it and there's no backup for restore it.Can I create a new DB...
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