Central SQL Server Administration
Hi all -I am looking for the best way to centrally manage lots of SQL instances. The main purpose would be for quick 'adhoc' type stuff, both reporting and running tasks against that data. A good...
View ArticleSSMS 2014 > Registered Servers > Evaluate Policies Error
Hi When I try to select Evaluate Policies on a registered server, I get the following error. =================================== Value cannot be null. Parameter name: source (System.Core)...
View ArticleDatabase Mail Shutting Down
Via SSMS I have configured Database Mail profile and account.I have started the service with: sysmail_start_sp;It starts, I test an email which remains in unsent items; and the following error logs to...
View ArticleIn SQL Server Management Studio - Backups - Use predefined variables to keep...
I just setup my first backup using this tool. When it runs tomorrow I want the file name to have the current datetime stamp to keep the files unique. It appears to want to over write the same file or...
View ArticleDisable and Enable some sql jobs
Is there any way I can Disable and enable 3 SQL jobs using schedule in SQL Server Agent?
View ArticleImpact ForestPrep & ADPrep AD 2012 for SQL 2005
Dear Team,One of our client wanted to upgrade their Domain Controller from 2008 R2 to 2012 R2, for this migration with need toUpdate the schema of domain controller, to update it we have to run this...
View ArticleHow to Rebuild this Table
Experts, I have a table with ID (identity column) as primary key cluster. There are additional columns eg, OrderHeaderNo I want to reorganize the rows on, to bring all existing order details together...
View ArticleMoving database to a new server
Hi Everyone,We are trying to move a database to a new location, so the techinque that we used is to use the log shippmnet version of database for this move. steps that we did are as follow:1- Stop the...
View ArticleUnexpected server behavior with SQL Server
Dear,Production server inexplicably responds.Server runs on Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V. There is also identical to the DR server.On Server stores the production base, and is configured and Mirror...
View ArticleSelf Service : SSIS pkgs and SQL Agent Job setup with Service Account
Dear All, Need help to define the process for self service SSIS and Agent Jobs process. We have currently 10 applications and each of them have separate SSIS developers to create packages. Each pkg has...
View ArticleSQL Table partioning
Hi,I have a table with large data. I don't want to use table partition, so is there any way, where I can query and get the results from the part of data i.e. I want to query against the data which is...
View ArticleDrawbacks of Partitioning the database
Hi,I would like to know what are the drawbacks of the partitioning database which is smaller in size( approximately: Total database size: 3 GB).Will I get benefits of partitioning with small...
View ArticleConfiguration manager throwing error Cannot connect to WMI provider
At some point the SQL Server Configuration Manager started to fail with error "Cannot connect to WMI provider.... Provider load failure [0x80041013]". It was working before. May be this is a...
View ArticleDBCC SHRINKFILE using TRUNCATEONLY
HelloDue to a one-off circumstance I have cleared a whole lot of space in one of my data files. Before the data purge the data file was approx. 175GB total size with 150GB used. Now it is down to 26GB...
View ArticleMigrate to "Office 365 Exchange Online SMTP Relay Service" from XSMTP
Hi AllWe are using XSMTP as of now in SQL server 2012 for sending the mails to the business Users. As per the recent mail communication from IT Exchange service, this will be decommissioned on Nov...
View ArticleHow to get Data and Database to another noninternet connected machine?
HelloI have a machine that is not capable of being hooked to the internet (Win 8.1 with SQL Server Express), but I need to get an SQL server database and its data on to this machine from another...
View ArticleInstall new Production SQL Server Environment
Hello ,I am about install new SQL Server Environment and was wondering which is better in terms of SQL Server management\operation, install multiple instance as per business line such as (reporting...
View ArticleLogin Error Message User Permission
Suddenly an error. When I login to my SQL Server 14 using Windows Authentication as normal I get the message"TITLE: Microsoft SQL Servr Management Studio Cannot display policy health state at the...
View Articlesql enterprise to sql web
I had created an account in azure SQL enterprise server, but that is proving to be too expensive. I want to move to sql web server. How do i change that??
View Articleerror: 40 - Could not open a connection to SQL Server
Dear, I read the following pages and do all that is written: https://www.mssqltips.com/sqlservertip/2340/resolving-could-not-open-a-connection-to-sql-server-errors/...
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