Developer Edition? Why am I only able to use 1 processor and 1GB memory
Hi,I purchased a developer license for $80 whatever bucks and downloaded what I thought was a developer version. I expected it to walk and talk like Enterprise. The iso mounts as SQL2014_enu_x64 I...
View ArticleWhat would cause index REORGANIZE to take longer than index REBUILD?
This is very puzzling:- Same server (SQL 2014 Standard Edition, 64GB RAM, 32 cores, SSD storage attached via iSCSI).- Same database (upwards of 300GB).- Same table (very large, many millions of rows,...
View ArticleFailed upgrade, now error 0x80070714
Upgrading an instance from SQL 2012 to SQL 2014. Instance has SQL Engine, SSAS, and SSIS. Using the GUI, everything proceeds normally until the very last step where I get the attached error...
View Articlealwayson availability groups- Syncing jobs
Can you guys share how you are taking care of new jobs and changes in the existing jobs to replicate to secondary replicas? It's giving a hard time to keep track on these changes and syncing jobs...
View Articlesql server 2014 installation question
My sql server 2014 CPT2 was expired. Can I install sql server 2014 on the top of sql server 2014 CPT2 or I have to uninstall CPT2 first? Thanks!
View ArticleProblem compressing backup to Azure
Hi Pro's. This is my first question on here so please bear with me..I'm having problems backing up my databases to Azure blob storage with compression in that no matter what setting I try (i.e WITH...
View Articlesynchronous and asynchronous commit
We are seeing high number of hadr_sync_wait types on our server after setting up AOAG during peak times. We have setup sync type as synchronous commit and failover automatic. Can we change these...
View ArticleCreate format file for BCP
Hello,We have one table where we store all documents in one of the column called "Doc" with varbinary(max) data type. We want to download those documents from sql table to windows explorer and i wrote...
View ArticleNotification on availability group failover
Hey all,Is there any way to trigger an event (ie. call a procedure/job/etc.) when/if an AG fails over? Not looking to use agent alerts.Thanks
View ArticleNot Legal Oleaut Date when importing from Access to SQL 2014
Im using the migration assistant but I keep running into this error that only allows 92% of the a certain table to be migrated. I changed the target field from datetime2 to just datetime but I keep...
View ArticleDatabase Owner
Hi,We are currently running our databases under a users account as the 'Database Owner' as well as our jobs.I'm wanting to change this to a seperate account so that if this user were to leave the jobs...
View ArticleFragmentation
How should I run this query against all the DB?SELECT db_name(), dbschemas.[name] as 'Schema', dbtables.[name] as 'Table', dbindexes.[name] as...
View ArticleIn-Memory Processing Tables - Limitations
Just been reading up on this and there are a lot of limitation which one needs to consider when designing an in-memory table. I'm going to post them below in the hope that others will add to them so I...
View ArticleIn-Memory Processing - Existing Tables
Hi there - Is there a method of forcing existing tables into the in-memory filegroup so the table data can benefit from in-memory processing. If so, can anyone point me in the direction of a...
View ArticleActive Directory
(a) The zip file servers_svcaccounts_110814.zip contains a text file for each server on the domain. Each text file has the services and service accounts for the server. Unzip...
View ArticleReplication- AlwayON AG
I have setup replication on primary replica and failed over to secondary replica. For some unknown reasons we have to replace the user db drives on primary. I added all the dbs back to the AG on...
View ArticleHow data writes in multiple secondaty files if there is no filegroup created
I read , When sql server Database having multiple data files [b]within single filegroup [/b]then sql server writes data in multiple proportional file algorithm where the amount of data written to a...
View ArticleSQL Server has encountered 1 occurrence(s) of I/O requests taking longer than...
Hi there - Last night our application experienced a brief outage due to the following error which I found in the error logs; SQL Server has encountered 1 occurrence(s) of I/O requests taking longer...
View ArticlePorts Firewalls and a New Named Instance... oh my
Hi,I have an existing 2012 default SQL Express. It's set up on a VPS managed by a third party. I have an administrator account on this 2012 Windows server. I'm not much of a sysadmin or a DBA but I get...
View ArticleCan we use SQL Server 2014 Express for commercial purpose ?.
Hi All,Can we use SQL Server 2014 Express for commercial purpose ?. Any reference link ?Thanks in advance.San.
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