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Valid log retention is not set

Hello,From the compliance Team 'Valid log retention is not set. It must be set to 90 days at least.'But I don't know how to change this parameter :-( can you help me please.Jean

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Schedule a query to run against multiple target servers

It's been awhile since I looked at Central Management Server (CMS) in 2005 and 2008 R2.  As I recall, you could not use SQL Agent to schedule a job to run a CMS-based query;  you can only run queries...

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Transact-SQL to select database

I have a general script that is run on a number of databased as maintenance. I have been running the scripot manually but this has become rather tedious as I went from a handful of databases to 50.  So...

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Sql Server Error Log

Hello TechNet,We are using SQL 2008R2 in our prod env. I see there are error log files are set to Max (99). We don't have any job in place to execute sp_cycle_errorlog. But 99 log archives are not...

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Install SQL Management studio Express 2014 X64 with SQL_SSMS.msi only

Hi Guys, Is it possible to do a SQL Management Studio install without having to go through all the menus, etc.. for a "full" install? I don't want to go through all the menus and possible issues of...

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Check if a Job is running

Hello,I would like to know if there is a way I can determine if a periodically scheduled job is running at a certain point. For example I got a Job scheduled to run every 30 minutes, but it is duration...

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Database Disk is full

A while ago I posted this...

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SSMS 2014 Crashes When Attempting to Attach A Database

I had a heck of a time getting SQL Server Developer Edition Installed on a Windows 10 machine. It would constantly hang and I had to baby sit it. When it did hang, I had to go and kill the process...

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SQL user problem"property IsLocked is not available for login '[username]'....

Hi,I have SQL server (2005) Some times without any changes users couldn't login to database When I open Management studio and click on specific user to see the user property it shows below error...

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remotely managing databases

SQL Server 2008 r2our DBAs have grown used to doing RDP to database servers to do all their work since many years. now we have a policy wherein only infrastructure team should go into the servers while...

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Index Management General Question

Currently we have PRD SQL servers with maintenance plans created using standard SSIS package for rebuilding indexes. The person has moved on and now I am looking after these SQL servers. Users are...

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SQL 2012 SP1 Task Name Missing from Maintenance Plan History ( already asked...

Hello,I will not put again the same information but it seems that the task name is missing from maintenance plan history in SQL 2012 RTM but also in SQL 2012 SP1. I checked and in both we have...

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SQL 2012 SP1 Task Name Missing from Maintenance Plan History

I have put lots of these in older versions of sql and task name always shows up.  This is my first 2012 SP1 install.Here is a normal one from 2008/R2Any help is appreciated.

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Error connecting to SQL Server Configuration Manager. Cannot Connect to WMI...

Hi,I'm setting up SQL Server 2014 on a 2012 Core Server VM and having some issues accessing from the SQL Server Configuration Manager.When I select the SQL Server Configuration Manager from the...

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how to properly uninstall SQL components

Hello,my primary goal was to adjust memory of WID (SQL Server Embedded Edition) of WSUS server... As known it "eats" about all the RAM.Usually, to configure this thing I use:C:\Program Files\Microsoft...

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purge db

Hi everyone, i used this command earlier to purge log file but how to purge the db itself ALTER DATABASE MYDB SET RECOVERY SIMPLE GO DBCC SHRINKFILE (ReportServer$MYLOG_log, TRUNCATEONLY) GOplease...

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How to enable roles?

In some generated code, I recently came across the following comments:// Run this BEFORE creating the user to make sure roles are enabled and the default role is available.// If there is a problem with...

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Managing Service Account Passwords on 100+ machines

I've been asked to create a Powershell script to change the password for the service account we use on 100+ hosts that we run SQL Server on.  We use the same AD account to run SQL Server, SQL Server...

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70-462 70-461

Hi,I wanted to take  face to face trainin for 70-462... I live in London; is there any official information? When I search on google most of the training appears to be online... I want a certified face...

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SQL Server 2012, 2014, 2016, MSA and gMSA Service Account Management

I want to use Managed Server Accounts or Group Managed Server Accounts for SQL Server service accounts.  I have read a lot of material on the web about this.  Depending on the age of the posting...

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