Page Life Expectancy plummets daily
Whilst monitoring various counters on our production instance of SQL Server 2014 (Web Edition), we have noticed that the Page Life Expectancy climbs steadily throughout the day but plummets to rock...
View ArticleDefault index fill factor
Experts, I have been going through handful of servers I am responsible for and I was just looking into DB settings. Some of the settings I saw which didn't look right to me and I am hoping to get some...
View ArticleDoes Azure protect against failure?
We have a server with some databases which keep our company's financial data. We are Microsoft shop who only uses standard edition. We are heavily dependent on our backups which is in AWS. (what if...
View ArticleDisaster Recovery
Good day,I want to propose a disaster recovery plan at my new work place,which way must i take less costly but efficient.mirroring,log shipping or replication?Thank you
View Articlehow to catch previous error message
I have a small problem. I like to catch a detailed Error Message. If a command raise more then one Error, i can catch only the last Error.I need the previous messag
View ArticleLicensing
Good day,Please help me to understand the belowSQL Licensing: 20 X SQL Server 2014 Device Ca
View ArticleDistributed Replay Issue.
Setup Distributed Replay Controller & Client, collected 20GB of trace data. When running Dreplay preprocess receive the following error -
View ArticleStrange Replication Error
We're in the process of migrating out whole system from SQL 2008 R2 to 2014. The powers-that-be decided to bundle a few other changes in with this, one of which has already been rolled back out of our...
View ArticleDiff backups every 2 hours.
I have a DB which I am in the process of inheriting and it has a DB backup schedule. Full every week, Diff every 2 hours, 15 tlog. Full backup and Diff backup tend to take all the resources available...
View ArticleHow to use DBCC OutputBuffer to capture all output from a SPID
A long troubleshooting exercise for a IVR web service has led us to resort to capturing data being sent back from the SQL server. The reason is, web service calls are encrypted and tracing on web...
View ArticleSpecified file is not a SQL Server backup file
I have two servers that the XP_delete_file command recognizes the sql backups created in SSMS as invalid backups. The files pass a restore headeronly correctly. I can restore the backups with no...
View ArticleAlwaysOn Availability Groups Failover - uncommitted transactions
My understanding is that when performing a manual or automatic failover of an availability group in synchronous mode. Any uncommitted transactions on the primary are rolled back, committed transactions...
View ArticleRemote TCP/IP Connection speed improvement methods?
Hi guys,I'm using an app that utilizes sql 2014. When I'm using the app on LAN, it's obviously working fast, but over WAN, things take 3 to 5 times longer all around. There are certain times where the...
View ArticleSQL Server 2014 quorum keeps on getting disconnected from the SQL instances...
Hi experts,In my client location i have 4 DB nodes and three instances. One Node DB2 having problem it always shows quorum is last that why temporarily we removed that node from cluster owner group. In...
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DefaultLogin is set to Guest?
Experts, I was going through the registry to change the location of the backup file and I noticed that the default login is set to guest. What is it and what's the recommendation?
View ArticleFull or simple recovery for system DBs?
I am aware how important system DBs are and how important FULL recovery mode is but do system databases have to have FULL recovery mode enabled or is it ok for me to set it to Simple. I am not aware of...
View ArticleSQL Server service account change in a Always on setup
Hi All,I am planing to change the sql server service account in two node always-on setup. Need to know the steps that needs to be taken which is a recommended way. Also, what are the minimum...
View ArticleSSAS
Hi Experts,I want to learn SSAS via youtube.Which link or advise do you recommend?Please helpThank you
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SSMS: Contents of Message Tab not Displaying
I shrunk an SSMS session to make it easier to see this problem.Here is the session with executed commands showing the Results tab.Everything looks good...
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