Distributed transactions - AG setting Vs Linked Server setting
I understand MSFT "should be " supporting distributed transaction starting SQL 2016 SP2 onwards. I have run into situation where with "Per DB DTC" option enabled and " Promoted transactions to...
View ArticleGrant sql assistant
Hello to all, I have one user as full granted and another one as a read-only user to SQL server.The first user can work correctly with the default sql assistant, but the second user isn't capable to...
View ArticleCPU time > Elapsed time
Hello, i have a little question.Is it possible that a query has CPU time greater than elapsed time without parallelism?His execution plan doesn't have parallelism (gather stream). Compilations...
View Articleupdate to SQL 2016 with log shipping
Howdy all..This is more of a general question... we currently are running our production applications on an instance of SQL Server 2012 and we do log shipping every hour to a second instance of SQL...
View ArticleAutomated Deployments
Morning Guys,What are people using for Automated Deployments? In a previous life I worked at a company that used a combination of Sql Compare and DB Ghost and the latest version from Source Control to...
View ArticleUpgrade to 2016 from 2012 - what are the CLR issues?
We have a vendor application that needs to be upgraded from 2012 to 2016. The server isn't due for replacement for another 3 years so we normally uninstall and install SQL. The vendor says that will...
View ArticleCost Threshold For Parallelism - Your opinion
Hi,I'm not going to ask what its for or anything, I understand it and its whole history back to Nick's PC. What I am going to ask is how you go about changing it, but I don't mean actually changing it,...
View ArticleAG owner question
I've been asked to delete SQL logins of people who are no longer with the company. I've got one Windows login that I cannot delete because it is the owner of our availability group. The account has...
View ArticleEasiest way to create a copy of a database with partitioned tables
Hello, I was wondering, is restoring AS new database from a backup the easiest/ fastest option? I assume the partition function and scheme, files and file groups will be restored identically? Any...
View ArticleWindows Cluster name with more than 15 characters - Listener creation failed
Hi All,I created a windows cluster for testing purpose and gave it a name longer than 15 characters.Windows accepted it, though it gave warning, cluster was up and running.I added an AG later and...
View Articleheterogeneous replication- SQL_Postgres
I am Getting following error while creating Subscription:Msg 20615, Level 16, State 1, Procedure sp_MSrepl_addsubscription, Line 692 [Batch Start Line 70]Unable to add a heterogeneous subscription to...
View ArticleSSDs or magnetic disk for transaction log files? discuss.
Hi allI thought that, these days, SSDs were a given in terms of performance, for everything. But then I came across this forum post:https://communi
View ArticleSubscription Setup
I have set up subscriptions and have different names for each of my subscription description and so forth but for some reason when it comes to the file name it is using the same file name and location...
View ArticleReport Subscriptions - How do other users access My Reports?
Hi,I"m currently the user who has created Report Subscriptions that run daily but now I"m leaving my current position and it appears that no one else has access to the Report Subscriptions I created....
View ArticleSetting up Always On Availability Groups with Windows Server Failover Cluster
I'm trying to setup Always On for SQL Server with two nodes.
View Articleif my SQL Server is setup for integrated security and i do not remember sa...
I need to be able to connect either via Windows authentication (as it is now) or SQL Server authentication (with admin privileges).Noone knows/remembers what SA pwd may be, the person who set it up is...
View Articleupgrade from 2014 to 2016
we need to migrate our sqlserver 2014 to 2016this is the current situation:2 nodes active-passive ms failover cluster on windows server 2008r2biggest database is about 20Tb, simple model we could have...
View ArticlePackage, Job, All Owned by my ID, but when running, Owned by Another ID, Fails
Hello, I have an odd event that happened, and I've seen it once before recently. I have a package, I own it, my ID is on it, and I deployed it. I also have a model that it loads, I own it too, I...
View Articleservice account list?
We have a large quantity of sql servers in a few locations. It would be extremely helpful to provide a list of these servers to a utility and get a list of the sql server service accounts each server...
View ArticleThe target database, '', is participating in an availability group and is...
Hi,I keep seeing this error in secondary node of the server. We dont have readable secondary. But the error only comes to just single environment.Is there anything I can perform to fix the error?Please...
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