sp_send_dbmail - Error when passing @query parameter.
Hi All,When I send mail using "sp_send_dbmail" it works fine.But it fails when I set "@query" paramerter, fails with below error."Failed to initialize sqlcmd library with error number -2147024809.Can...
View ArticleStrange insert time
Hi, folksI have to migrate our company SQL server to Germany. I have new SQL server 2014 installed in Germany and I started to transfer databases and applications. I noticed strange behaviour....I have...
View ArticleHow to understand this deadlock
Hi please find attached.Procedure:[code="sql"]CREATE PROCEDURE [dbo].[RSDocument_Store] -- Add the parameters for the stored procedure here @ID int = 0, @DocumentType int, @EntityID int, @VersionNumber...
View ArticleNumber of CPU cores used by SQL Server
Hi, In one of our customer, they have SQL Server licensing based on CPU cores. I was wondering how I can check how many CPU cores have been utilized by SQL Server?Thanks,
View ArticlePerformance tuning on Production systems ??
Hi All,Sorry to ask this question in this forum. Its more kind of general and not a technical question.Can anyone tell me what are the drawbacks of using Production Server as a Testing Server....
View ArticleInvalid object name 'sysarticles' and Availability Groups
I have a Availibility Groups set up between two SQL 2014 boxes, the primary is used for PROD and the secondary is used for Read Only purposes.. I am attempting to ALTER a table on the primary and add a...
View ArticleSQL Server Crashed
Hi All,I am trying to find out the root cause for SQL Server crash. A timeout (30000 milliseconds) was reached while waiting for a transaction response from the MSSQLSERVER service.The SQL Server...
View ArticleWhat algorithm do you use to determine low space?
I want to create an alert on low space for SQL Server. My instances vary a lot between number of drives, numbers of data files on each drive etc. Some of my drives are full 99% with only SQL Server...
View ArticleLog file Growth
Hi Experts,Have observed that the log file is growing huge because of Index Rebuild operation? Can anyone help me understand why?TIA
View Articlemassive i/o bottleneck
We’re using Microsoft SQL Server 2014 - 12.0.4213.0 (X64) Jun 9 2015 12:06:16 Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation Standard Edition (64-bit) on Windows NT 6.3 <X64> (Build 9600: )We have a few...
View ArticleShiny new server - split temp db files question
Hi,We have a brand new server. As part of that server we now have the power/space to split out our Tempdb from one file to 12. Question:After I split out the tempdb files (12 x 10G files) what happens...
View ArticleSQL 2014 SSIS Proxy account issues
Hi,I am having real trouble trying to get an SSIS package trying to run via a SQL Agent Job in SQL Server 2014.I have set up a new credential and proxy account as per all our SQL2008 R2 servers (which...
View ArticleSQL Server 2014/Server 2008 R2 Installation Question
All,From my research on TechNet and MSDN I have found that SQL Server 2014 can be installed on an SMB share. This installation would support system and user databases being located on the SMB share....
View ArticleAlerts in SQL server
I usually created alerts using native alerts 011-025 when I setup a new SQL server, what other alerts do you usually create for your SQL servers as DBA?Thanks,
View ArticleSQL Server was hung, need to find root cause
Hello All,Yesterday one of our SQL Server was hung and not able to RDP and connect SQL remotely, Windows team notified us TCP connections were full in resource monitor and CPU was high but was changing...
View ArticleNeed More Beta Participants!
Hey guys!We are looking for active beta participants to try out our new SaaS-Based Database Monitoring Tool. Our tool will monitor your databases and their underlying (virtual) infrastructure. If you...
View ArticleError Locating Server/Instance Specified, SQL Server 2014/Windows 10
SQL Server 2014 on Windows 2012R2 server. Our application connects to SQL Server without any problem on several Windows 7 computers, but gets the above error on a new Windows 10 machine.No firewall or...
View Articleupgrading sql 2012 to sql 2014 on 2 node active/passive cluster best practices
Question is it best practice to let new upgraded node run in PROD for couple days then once there are no errors we can upgrade the other node and failover to it? Or is it better to upgrade both nodes...
View ArticleUpgrading 2008 Enterprise to 2012 Standard
Hi All - As the title suggests. We're currently running 2008 Enterprise and need to upgrade to 2012 Standard (which we've already obtained a license for). Since the upgrade path is unsupported, what is...
View ArticleExecute package in SSISDB catalog with UNC path
We recently start using the SSIS project deploy mode which utilize SSISCatalog database SSISDB.I found there is an issue if we run a package in SSISDB by right click the package in SSISDB Catalog,if...
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