Index rebuild followed by statistics update
I inherited a SQL server with one maintenance plan which runs once per week and does these tasks in sequence:Check Database ConsistencyRebuild IndexUpdate StatisticsClean Up HistoryMaintenance Cleanup...
View Articlebackup fails - managed backup seems to break regular differential backups....
Hello,I do full backups and diff backups with Ola Hallengren solution to blob storage. I get the following error message: Msg 3035, Sev 16, State 1, Line 1 : Cannot perform a differential backup for...
View ArticleHow to Configure SQL Agent History on Linux
SQL Server Agent History stores only 1000 rows in total and 100 row per job. I need to increase this value on SQL Server on Linux.On changing this configuration on SSMS, the error "A severe error...
View Article"Erase Phantom System Health Records" being failed in job...
Hi ,I am using SQL server 2014, Jobs is successfully executing for more than a year. For few days step#3 "Erase Phantom System Health Records" gives following error:"Executed as user: User_name. The...
View ArticleHow to achieve Blue Green deployment model in SQL Server databases?
Hi,In our Organization, we are using SQL Server Standard edition 2008 R2. Our database sizes are around 200-500 GB.To achieve zero downtime, we are planning to go with Blue Green deployment...
View ArticleSQL 2019 Standard : licence activation (how ? impact ? delay ? check ?)
Hello,The goals of this issue about the MS-SQL 2019 Standard licences are : 1 + How to check the licence status ? (powershell ?) 2 + How to apply/activate the number/code/key licence ? 3 + How many...
View ArticleImport "wrong" datetime format
Hello, I'm new, i don't even know if i'm in the right place. I have a problem, i have a lot of information in a .csv file, and the datetime format is "yyyyMMdd HHmmss", so when i go to the...
View ArticleError Msg 4861 when execute bulk insert
Hi,I am trying to make a bulk insert by mapping a file that is on a different machine than where the database is. The code is the followingbulk insert vector.changes_date from...
View ArticleUnable to Connect other SQL instance using its name
Hi,I have installed SQL Server 2014 (SP2-CU18) on a machine (Mach-c). Its working fine. We have other DB servers as well. Mach-c allows to connect other servers using their IP addresses in SSMS but...
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Azure SQL server replication issue
Hello, We have one Azure SQL server running on Europe region and we have configured the replication to diff region. Pl see below for ref.Question is, we have the sqladmin credential for source SQL DB...
View ArticleGet list of all DBs last backup date-time across multiple SQL Servers as...
Hello, any ideas of how to do this?My first guess is having one Sandbox DBA SQL Server that has multiple Linked Servers and then run a script like the following as a SQL Agent job that can output query...
View ArticleAccess to Azure SQL server (PAAS)
Hi all,We have one azure sql server on US region. We have added one user from Active directory admin from portal under the SQL server setting. However, this user has the admin access and our...
View ArticleSQL Server Configuration Manager: Cannot connect to WMI provider
I installed the latest version (v17.2) of SQL Server on a new PC, and when trying to access "SQL Server 2017 RC1 Configuration Manager" I'm receiving the following error message: "Cannot connect to WMI...
View ArticleScript to backup all DBs with unique TimeStamp name and remove old backup files?
Hello I have SQL 2016 and am having problems with the Maintenance Plan Wizard to backup all User DBs and the 3 system DBs (master, msdb, model) and Cleanup task.Can someone provide me a script that can...
View ArticleSQL database shrink 600+ GB
Greetings....I have a data base with 950 GB, and i deleted old data from the database around 550 GB then run rebuild indexing, current size is 280 GB, my problem is still space is reserved 950 GB,...
View ArticleUnable to create AG in 2014 developer license
Completely frustrated with the number of attempts I have done to create an AG in SQL 2014 developer. In past I have created AG w/o issue a number of time. Not sure what an I missing this time. Breaking...
View ArticleSQL Backup always hang and made VM running on Host (ESXI) unresponsive
Hi All,actually, we have WS 2012 R2 running on VM with service SQL server 2012.- The host hangs while backup SQL (we use SQL Tool to backup DB with total size 3TB) we are doing differential backup on...
View ArticleCan blocking turn into deadlocks?
Hello, just wondering if queries that are involved with blocking situations can then turn into deadlocks?Thanks in advance.
View ArticleAdding linked disk to a existing availability group cluster
Hi,I have a existing SQL cluster with a number of availability groups.I have three hardisks added to my system which have been mounted to a directory.This worked fine.Now a want to add three more disks...
View ArticleHow SQL authentication is done when on Azure AD DS
Hi guys. We have a couple of clients that have an infrastructure mostly on the cloud. Our applications use a locally-hosted SQL database on SQL server, with permissions typically set on domain users to...
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