Vendor application bug created additional problem
Had an issue last week where a vendor application generated excessive content overnight that almost used up all our server free space (ldf - grabbed up space over 7 hours period). Vendor is looking...
View ArticleStored Proc Permissions
Good day Experts,I am a SysAdmin and i have two stored procs on the same database.I can run one them successfully and the other one gives back an error.Login failed for user "AAAAAA"'.As a Sysadmin i...
View ArticleSSIS Package Not running via SQL agent
Hi,My SSIS packages are not running when called from a SQL Server Agent Job .I have been reading about setting a proxy account and i did that still not working.Can you please help if anyone knows how...
View ArticleAssigning VIEW SERVER STATE to an account (preferably WITHOUT LOGIN)
I'm looking at a function that has been passed to me, to assign VIEW SERVER STATE, because of the access it needs.Now I'm in the middle of writing a blog about assigning database-level permissions to a...
View ArticleAlter DB data paths on a Principal
In order to change the paths of the .mdf and .ndf and .ldf files on the principle on a mirror (Someone place them all on our D drive) Can I simply pause the mirror and alter their locations ?
View ArticleNed to understand Web App Accessing DB using Singleton Connection method
I really thought I would be able to find this topicWe have been experiencing some weird Tempdb growth that I haven't been able to figure out I had been trying to monitor what what happening in the...
View ArticleLog Shipping Secondary Didn't Work When Using the No, the database has...
I am experimenting with log shipping in sql server 2014, and am log shipping to 2 secondaries. I synchronized all three instances by running the backup, copy and restore jobs so the log shipping report...
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error during backup veem
Hello everyoneI have a pb to snapshot the VM that contains two instances sql serverI have an error during the rescue operation see the screen prints
View ArticleSQL 2014 - Excessive Paging
We're experiencing intermittent excessive paging (more often than not) with one of our servers.This is SQL Server 2014 EE. Server has 26 GB memory. One important thing - we are about to modify max...
View ArticlePatching the Cluster
Hi Experts,I want to apply SP2 on two node A & B cluster, i did some tests on Dev and all is well.I want to apply first on node A and monitor it for a week before i apply it to node B.I am not...
View ArticleUsing Service Accounts as link user
The link user account will need sysadmin rights. I've always used different accounts for my SQL services and for my link user. My questions:
View Articlesql server detects 4 CPU on 8 installed
Hello everyoneI have a server installed with windows server 2012 standart edition with sql server 2014 standart edition 64 bitI increase the number of VCPU on this server from 4 to 8 VCPUif I look at...
View ArticleBackup into shared folder failed - Cannot open backup device
I'm trying to make a backup from SQL Server into a shared folder. Although I am able to manually go to shared folder and create or modify files, but I realized NT Service\MSSQLSERVER doesn't have...
View ArticleEnabling TDE on a mirrored database
I've just enabled TDE on the principal but forgot to create the master key and restore the certificate to the mirror before enabling TDE :(The encryption state moved from 0 (Not Encrypted) to 1...
View ArticleSQLJOBVIS - anyone still have a copy?
This is the nifty old utility talked about in this article. http://www.sqlservercentral.com/blogs/chadmiller/2010/05/15/sql-agent-visual-job-schedule-viewer/ It seems the company and the website no...
View ArticleAvailability Group switch
How can I change Availability Replicas Role from Secondary to Primary and Primary to SecondaryRight Click AGGo to PropertiesServer Instance that is in Role Secondary needs to be PrimaryServer Instance...
View ArticleUser groups
Hi all -I just want to confirm (or find out I am wrong) about setting up creating a group to add users in sql server.In our environment, we cannot add Windows Groups (AD) for our sql users. Not sure...
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 ArticleInsert into an existing table.
I am working with 2 tables. 1st table (old table) contains data from 01/01/16 to 07/31/2017. The other table (new table) contains data from 08/01/2017 to 12/31/2017. I need to merge the data so we only...
View ArticleSetting a column collation to NULL
How can I set a column with a set collation back to null? We currently have a mixture of column collations, and want all the columns to inherit the database collation. I can only find the command to...
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