Linked Server Error
Hi All,I am trying to create a linked server and I am getting the below error message. cannot initialize the data source object of OLEDB provider "MSDASQL" for linked server ADDCDBP2. OLEDB provider...
View ArticleProduction OLTP SQL Server with All Files on One Raid 10 drive...
SQL Server 2014, 8 CPUs, degree of parallelism 16, 256 GB of RAM... This is a physical box, not on a SAN.I work for a small company that uses quite a few vendor software products and am in the middle...
View ArticleSQL Permissions
Hello everyone,Is there a way to track who is granting DB and server level permissions to users in SQL Server 2012/2014?
View ArticleSQL tripple jump login problems
Having an issue when I have a Machine that kicks off a stored procedure on a 2014 SQL server. That stored procedure calls another 2014 database server and does an update to some data. When the stored...
View ArticleSQL Server Performance Dashboards
I'm on SQL 2014 Enterprise with the SQL 2012 Performance Dashboards installed.1. There is the main dashboard showing current cpu utilization for the last 15 minutes and current waiting requests.If I...
View ArticleScript to find to see newly created databases
Hi,i am developing the script which will give the if new database is created on the server we need to get the mail .Any ideas on this.
View ArticleWhat system databases are required to start sql server / where to store?
With SQL Server 2012/2014, what system databases are requried in order for sql sever to start? Of the following system databases:master - contains all system-wide information.msdb - holds information...
View ArticleCardinality Estimation for >= / > for intra step statistics value
I am trying to understand how SQL Server try to estimate for greater than and greater than equal where clauses in SQL Server 2014.I think I do understand the cardinality estimation when it hits the...
View ArticleChange Tracking
Hi All,I am experimenting with Change Tracking (Not CDC, yet) to identify rows in a small subset of tables to be loaded into a a data warehouse (Well, I suppose Mart, its a single fact + 5 dimension,...
View ArticleDatafile issue
Hey Experts,I have a weird scenario here. Recently I added a data file in one of my prod database for SQL (2012 Ent. SP2 64 bit) instance and found it was started reflecting in properties for the...
View ArticleArchitecture for 100,000+ transactions/sec
My company has an ecommerce application that can sometimes exceed 60,000 trans/sec. Things are being held together well enough with duct tape and baling wire but future success requires that increasing...
View ArticleFirst Statement issued by SQL Server Agent is SET QUOTED_IDENTIFIER OFF
We were debugging a production issue where a new SQL Agent job threw the following error:[i]INSERT failed because the following SET options have incorrect settings: 'QUOTED_IDENTIFIER'. Verify that SET...
View ArticleEmail Lock Notification and Proof application not closing connections
HiI am looking for proper Lock email notification HTML format (Setup Job) that can email me every times lock happens. I am sitting with problem where the application owners are not taking responsibly...
View ArticleCHECKDB - Cannot continue the execution because the session is in the kill...
we started getting this last weekend on a large-ish AlwaysOn database (800GB).it failed on all 3 replicas last weekend. next run it succeeds on two and fails on one (a secondary). using Ola's scripts,...
View Articledomain\servername$ login
I inherited some instances where there are some logins of the format[code] domain\servername$ [/code]I'm not sure how ... that works. I've found some posts indicating that these are principals just...
View ArticleLog Chains
Hi,I've been doing a lot of reading about backups and transactions logs recently, and I have a couple of very simple questions that I'm hoping someone can help me definitively answer.Here's how I...
View Articlerecovery mode comparison
Hello,We are writing a lot into the database.At present the mode is set to simple. If changed to bulk logged then will the bulk operations be quicker?thanks
View Articleclustering installation on windows 10 ?
About SQL Server clustering installation, is it only a Windows server posibility or is possibility on a Windows 10 machine.
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