SQL Server 2014 BPA?
Is there a Best Practices Analyzer for SQL Server 2014? We are moving from SQL Server 2008 R2 to SQL Server 2014 in the near future. I would like to run the BPA on the 2014 installs if...
View ArticleNon-clustered index question
Hi,I tried to search for this but I haven't seen the question asked explicitly--and that may be because it's kind of dumb, but I'm interested in knowing the answer.Let's say I have a table with the...
View Articlealwayson fileshare witness
Hi Guys,I'm planning to setup 4 x 2 nodes alwayson cluster pair running on esx.Will be using fileshare witness for the quorum.As i have 4 set of 2 nodes cluster, i will be having 4 fileshare witness (4...
View ArticleThe best allocation unit size
Hi what is the best allocation unit size NTFS for OLTP ? For OLTP, where it's mostly writes,does performance degrade with 64k allocation unit size?8k is appropriate or 64K?We have san storage,and...
View ArticleReplication Oracle->SQL2014 Error 14124
I have created a publication from Oracle to SQL2014.replmon says the snapshot has completed.The snapshot files are in the directory.SQL agent has access to the snap directory, oracle files.When I...
View Articlehow to find all sql agent jobs on all servers on domain
looking to do this by a sql script
View ArticleStatistics Question
Hi,I am in the process of setting up some of Ola Hallengren's database maintenance scripts. As most of you probably know, there is an Index Optimize job for user databases. I have a table in a...
View ArticleUnderstanding Always-on Availability Group Session-Timeout parameter
Hi all,I have a 2 node WSFC with node1 hosting a primary replica and node2 with a secondary replica.When going to AG -> Properties, i see that i can set the session-timeout for both the primary and...
View ArticleJob failure count mismatch?
Hi All,I need some help in the below query. There are 2 queries. 1st query which will tell me the monthly wise job report which includes columns such as TotalJobExecutions, Success Count, Failure...
View ArticleReplication
It is a general question what are the reasons for articles are not replicated from publisher to subscriber ?
View ArticleDatabase Size Discrepancy
Hi,I'm querying sys.master_files to get the size of my data files and indexes for a particular database:SELECT a.[name], a.physical_name, sum((a.size * 8.0) / 1024) AS SizeInMBFROM sys.master_files...
View ArticleStrange Blocking
Hi Experts,We have a monitorblocking setup in place and which gave below two process blocking . The first one was blocking the second one.The strange part is there is no relation between these...
View ArticleEffort to configure Logshipping/Mirroring/Replication/Always on
Hi All,I was asked this question by one of my customer.He wanted me to give him a rough idea about the effort to configure Logshipping/Mirroring/Replication/Always on , say for a database of size of...
View ArticleSSRS 2014 just randomly slow response for a while
I have 6xSSRS 2014 servers running same set of reports. All reports point to the same SQL Server 2008 Database. All reports call SP in database server to get result back and render. Report are running...
View ArticleEmail alerts when server reboots
We had a external company set these email alerts up once we had a server reboot on any server. He is no longer with us and I won't to change who the email goes to but I can't find where he set this up....
View ArticleBasic insert for large tables
Hi,This seems simple but I'm having trouble. We have a process that when it falls behind starts to do very large inserts, selecting from one table into another. As they are written now, when the source...
View ArticleJDBC and JTDS on SQL Server 2014 AlwaysOn Availability Group
Morning All,So, the saga continues! Eventually found out from our outsourced developers the Service that connect to our SQL Databases are actually written in Java and use JDBC/JTDS - Despite when being...
View ArticleDatabase Setup Questions
Hi,I have a ~75 GB database that's running on SQL Server 2014 Standard SP1 on a VM with 1 socket and 8 vCPUs, with 32GB RAM. I am following some of the basic recommendations for general database setup...
View ArticleSQL Services affects or not -- Cluster disk offline
Hi ,We have PRODUCTION SQL Server (STD Edition) Active/Passive Clustering at DR server. There are two cluster disk used by SQL Server Services one for System databases and other for only User database...
View ArticleFailure sending mail: The specified string is not in the form required for an...
We have a job that sends out a pdf once a week and every now and then we get this error message. I have tried to rerun the report but I get the same error.Where do I start to see what is causing this?
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