Plan Cache Related Performance Drop After SQL 2012 Upgrade
We've installed SQL2012 on one of our servers and spotted an overall performance drop of around 20% when compared to SQL2008. On the same hardware and identical database settings (Optimize for Ad Hoc...
View ArticleTPC-E test on SQL Server 2012 high runnable task count
I know I probably shouldn’t be replying to this old thread, but I’m crossing my fingers that Jonathan Kehayias will see activity on this old thread and respond…I’m using Quest Benchmark Factory to run...
View ArticleSplit existing Partition - Grows log file in GBs and take hours to run
Hi,I have an existing table with around 200 Million rows and couple of partitions.I would like to split the partitions e.g. the Latest partition hold the data where date >= '2012-01-01' and I want...
View Articlewhat all ports should be opened to connect to a named instance running on...
what all ports sould be opened to connect to a named instance running on port number 7000SQL Browser enabledAble to connect with SERVERNAME, 7000 but not with SERVERNAME\INSTANCE NAMEIt is static...
View Articlewhy a certain process is running so long
Hi Experts.How do you guys look into a issue, when some developer complaints that his process running from so long time.I am just expecting basic steps you look into.
View ArticleLogon SSPI handshake failed
Hi,We are receiving following alerts (SQL Server 2005):"Logon SSPI handshake failed with error code 0x8009030c while establishing a connection with integrated security; the connection has been closed....
View ArticleMore columnstore woes
Hi all,I have an issue with columnstore and the query optimiser. I am running the following query:SELECT Store.StoreId, COUNT(*) FROM Fact.Sale INNER JOIN Dimension.Store ON Store.StoreId =...
View Articlecan't attach outlook 2013 bcm database in SSMS
Hello,I upgraded my laptop from Windows 7 64 bit Office 2012/BCM 32 bit to Windows 8 Office 2013/BCM.before the upgrade I detached the bcm database in SSMS. made copies of the mdf and ldf...
View Articleadd-type -assemblyName System.IO.Stream is failing in powershell script
Hi all,I am trying to do some automation using powershell scripting. I have following code in my script:add-type -assemblyName System.IO.StreamI also have this: add-type -assemblyName System add-type...
View ArticleSQL2012 SP1 - Errorlog message: Failed to allocate BUFs:...
Hi all,recently i have received following errors in my errorlog: Failed to allocate BUFs: FAIL_BUFFER_ALLOCATION 1this error is followed by: Memory Manager KB...
View Articlewill Partition help if the large table has lot of Inserts and Updates
Hi All, We have a very large table it is about 100 GB and we are planning for partationing. The current scenario is this Large table will have lot of updates and inserts, currently we are like facing a...
View ArticleCannot Connect to Remote Named Instance of SQL Server
We have 3x instances of SQL Server 2012 installed on a single remote server - there's the default MSSQLSERVER instance, then \INSTANCE01 and \INSTANCE02. I can remotely connect to the default...
View ArticleWarning: Failure to calculate super-latch promotion threshold. appears in SQL...
We are running SQL Server 2008 R2 and have just applied Service Pack 2 to our QA environment.Today we noticed this message in the SQL Server log: Warning: Failure to calculate super-latch promotion...
View Articlewakslhwn.ldf. Verify that the file exists and that you can access it.
Hello,I am trying to install SQL Server 2008 R2 but I am getting an error:TITLE: Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Setup ------------------------------ The following error has occurred: Source file not...
View ArticleHow can we rollback alter user statement
Hi All,We have a requirement of changing schemas but it we also need it to revert to the original one.Alter user <user> with default_schema = <newSchema> does the job of changing the...
View ArticleConnecting to SQL 2005 x64 using Management Studio on Windows 2008 x64 is...
I have a SQL 2005 x64 server that is running just fine. I have installed the SQL 2005 Management Studio on Windows 2008 x64 server and can connect to the SQL 2005 x64 server. But it takes almost a...
View ArticleThe OLE DB provider "MSDASQL" for linked server "MYSQL" supplied invalid...
I had a running openquery as follow in MSSQL SERVER.SELECT * FROM OPENQUERY(MYSQL, 'CALL GASP_sales_tl_performance_summary(''2013-03-01'',''2013-05-01'')')When i Execute this open Query will get an...
View Articlexp_delete_file extremely slow on a server - Wait_Info...
I am looking at one server where xp_delete_file is extremely slow to delete files.One subdirectory contains a few thousands files and it takes about 1 second for each file to delete.The wait_info is...
View Articlepage life expectency
I am looking at the sys.dm_os_performance_counters table and trying to figure out how a int value represents a ratio? For example "buffer cache hit ratio" = 12355. What does this mean?
View ArticleTable Partitioning with sliding window
Hi All,we planning to create partitioning on existing tables. The partitioning is on date column, there should be one partition for each year. Creating of new partitions should be automated, and also...
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