Compressed Backups- SQL Server 2008 32 bit to SQL Server 2014 64 bit
Hello,I wanted to know if we use the compressed backups option ( full backup with compression ) to move large production databases during a migration project from 32 bit SQL Server 20008 to SQL...
View ArticleIncreasing Buffer Pool
Good afternoon.Recently read an article Increasing Buffer Pool, and can not understand how I can determine that I need to use this setting.Does anyone have experience of using Increasing Buffer Pool...
View ArticleIs full backup enough
For the same migration project of moving 2 TB and 500 databases If I feel Data doesn't change and traffic is stopped by the firewall and network guys, will taking full backup and restoring at the...
View ArticleTlog backups - indicate no data change
Hi,For the db backup restore project moving ~ 1200 dbs ( some vldbs 500 GB as well ) from 32 bit sql server 2008 old to 64 bit new hardware sql server 2014 after the full backup is taken at soucre...
View ArticleSecondary replica database issue
Last Friday, we had an issue with our production SQL cluster that uses AlwaysOn Availability Groups. I am using SQL 2016 Enterprise.The issue caused a few of the databases to go into (Not Synchronizing...
View ArticleIndexes getting fragmented Fast
Hi,I noticed that for some critical production databases sized around 600 GB or so, Indexes get fragmented often. Do fragmented indexes cause deadlocks? As we are seeing deadlock erros in the App log...
View ArticleERROR:the log or differential backup cannot be restored because no files are...
Hi All,A-->prod, B-->DR (LS configured)after failover B becomes the prod and A becomes the DR(standby/readonly)during the failback we follow the steps:stop all LS jobsbackup log with norecovery...
View ArticleDacpac - SQL Server error 1222 lock request time out period exceeded
Hi,I am using dacpac for database upgrade.When applying dacpac in database , below error is raised.SQL Server error 1222 lock request time out period exceeded (SQL72014) database is size is 130 gb and...
View ArticleSQL Server 2014 CPU Pegged at 100%
Hi,We have a Virtual Machine on VMWare which is a core production DB server and the IT guy allocated it 6 processors.CPU is pegged at 100% all the time,Based on google- I set maxdop=6 , cost threshold...
View ArticleSSMS - Central Management Server - SQL Auth?
Hey all,Is it me, or did they remove SQL auth from SSMS 2016 CMS? Authentication drop down only shows Windows Authentication and Active Directory Integrated Authentication. We have a few instances in a...
View ArticleExam 70-764 expected go live date?
Not sure if this is the best place, but does anyone know the expected date for exam 70-764 to go live? I took the Beta exam a month ago, and am waiting on the go live for results. I want to get the...
View ArticleFileTable?
Evening All,As part of some mild re-design of a 5TB database. Which is 4.5 TB of < 1MB Documents inserted into a BLOB field, I am wanting to evaluate the use of FileTable or FileStream.
View ArticleEXEC OPENDATASOURCE - security from within a job step
Hey all, is this working as expected? I have a job step performing an EXEC OPENDATASOURCE to remote instances that is attempting to use the calling Agent's service account, even though the job owner is...
View ArticleSQL Server Snapshot Replication error 22018
I am trying to get snapshot replication between two MSSQL servers to work but am receiving errors. Any help will be much appreciated! My setup: Publisher/Distributor: SQL 2008 R2 Subscriber: SQL 2016 I...
View ArticleInsufficient memory in internal resource error with moving table to in memory
Trying some tests in moving a table from disk to in memory. Using script or GUI I get an error when loading the data "insufficient memory in resource pool 'internal' Have 16 gig on this machine...
View ArticleQuestion about AlwaysOn Availability Groups
I understand it like this:Secundary databases in the group are syncronized either synchronous or asynchronous from the primary database, the same goes for a secondary/primary "replica".Is this
View ArticleRecompiling all objects , stored procedures after moving to new server
Hi,We just moved from SQL Server 2008 R2 32 bit to SQL Server 2014 64 Bit Ent ( no SP just RTM released in 2014 ).Though the box has 14 virtual processors ( VMware - its a virtual machine CPU's ) 83...
View ArticleSSRS 2012 to 2016 Upgrade - Recreating Subscriptions
I'm planning a 2012 - 2016 SSRS Upgrade (Native to Native), and there's no issue doing a backup and restore, apply encryption key, make the few other basic changes that may be required, and we're all...
View ArticleUpgrading to SQL 2016 - Failures in SSRS
Good day,We've upgraded our SQL 2014 instance to a SQL 2016 enterprise edition (SP1,Cu1).All of our reports still work, but now some of our applications doesn't want to display our reports anymore....
View ArticleOpenrowset JSON and national characters - UTF8/ANSI problem
HiA CMD line tool creates a file for me. It is the middle part below. Filename: slet.jsonThis file cannot be read by SQLI open the file in Notepad and save it to another name. Changing UTF-8 to ANSI...
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