I have a large amout of dbs (150) on my SQL Server and when using the enterprise manager to do administrational tasks like Backup, Restore etc. it takes 1.5 hour to open the Database folder. Server is 2xP4, 3Gb RAM. Any ideas on how to manage this number of dbs on the same server and instance of SQL.
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Hi,I am using SQL 2000 and has a table that contains more than 2 millionrows of data (and growing). Right now, I have encountered 2 problems:1) Sometimes, when I try to query against this table, I would get sqlcommand time out. Hence, I did more testing with Query Analyser and tofind out that the same queries would not always take about the sametime to be executed. Could anyone please tell me what would affect thespeed of the query and what is the most important thing among all thefactors? (I could think of the opened connections, server'sCPU/Memory...)2) I am not sure if 2 million rows is considered a lot or not, however,it start to take 5~10 seconds for me to finish some simple queries. Iam wondering what is the best practices to handle this amount of datawhile having a decent performance?Thank you,Charlie Chang[Charlies224@hotmail.com]
Recently we added a new table into our SQL2000 database specifically to store scanned in images of documents. This new table contains a PK field, a couple of datetime fields, a couple of char(1) fields and one 'image' field.
Before adding this table, the database size was approx 6GB. Six months after adding this new table, the database has grown to 18GB - 11GB of this is due to the scanned in images.
Would this new table affect the SQL performance with regards to accessing other data in the database that has nothing related to the new table?
If so, would moving this new table into it's own database be recommended?
We have created a databse in SQL Server 7 for support issues. We are having trouble with only one aspect of the databse and that is the body of the supported problem.
The databse is basically a Question/Answer Support database whch house Frequently Asked Questions. When the user does a search on a specific problem they have a list of matching questions shows on the screen (links). When the question is clicked on it shows the Questions with the Answer of possible fixes.
Our problem lies in the fact that SQL server is truncating the Answer portion. I have tried different Data Types with maximum lengths with no success it keeps truncating it. Right now I am on Data Type nvarchar with a length of 4000.
If anyone has any pointers on how to solve this problem all input is appreciated. You can post here to the forum or e-mail me directly at jason@flnet.com
i have just created a test database and now need to insert a large number of records into one of the tables, we were thinking of about 1 million records, has anyone got an sql script that i could use to create these records
Hello,I have experienced that some of my tables occupies an extremely large amountof pages but with few rows. An example is a table with 37 rows over 22000pages !. The columns are simple integer and char. I fixed the problem byintroducing a clustered index. Now it only uses 1 page. But can anyoneexplain this behaviour in SQLServer 2000 ?regards Jakob Mathiasen
This is a general question on the best way to import a large amount of datato a MS-SQL DB.I can have the data in just about any format I need to, I just don't knowhow to import the data. I some experience with SQL but not much.There is about 1500 to 2000 lines of data. I am looking for the best way toget this amount of data in on a monthly basis.Any help is greatly thanked!!Mike Charney
Is there any way how to create indexies after insertion of any number of records (I dont want to create index after insertion of every record, but for example after insertion of 1000 records) ?
I heard it should be possible with „bulk insert“ or with transactions. Is it right ? I need do this with MS SQL Server 2005 (Workgroup edition).
I need to delete data from a particular table which has more than half a million records. The data needs to be deleted is more than 200,000 records from the table. What is the best way to delete the data from the table other than importing into a temporary table and performing the same operation?
Let me know if the strategy to be followed is okay.
1. Drop all the triggers 2. Drop all the indexes 3. Write a procedure with a loop setting ROWCOUNT to 1000 and delete the records. ( since if I try to delete all the rows it will give timeout error ) The above procedure will delete 1000 records for each batch inside the loop till it wipes out all the data for the specified condition. 4. Recreate Indexes and Triggers.
Please let me know if there are any other optimal solution.
I have been in contact with my Hosting provider who have told me that my website seems to be making a large amount of SQL commands, and locking the tables.
I have SQL 2000 and need to retrieve fairly large amout of data (~50.000 characters) in XML format and then insert it into the field ofthe text type.As 'FOR XML' can't be used with either local variables, INSERT INTO orSELECT INTO this makes "XML support" quite useless in many aspects.Can anyone please help me in solving this.Thanks a lot for your help and time.Pavel
Hello all - I currently have a project that has a gridview on the front end. The user can select multiple items from this grid, hit a button and all of the selected records should be updated in the process. However, this resultset can have a large amount of data coming back, and I'm stumped on how to pass all of the ID's to the sp. I'd rather not call the SP for each record selected, as there could be 1,000 items selected, and well, I'd rather not call the SP 1000 times :p. I thought of generating a comma delimited list as I'm looping through the grid and using dynamic sql, but the IDs are about 6-7 numbers long, and including comma, would take up almost all of the max space in a varchar. Are there any good solutions to this problem? Passing the items as an array? Generating a data table in .NET and passing that? Any help would be appreciated. -Jaime
i need to retrieve a large amount of data from the sql server database and make changes to one field and put the data back using a console application. how do i do it?
Hi, My application needs to retrieve data from a table which has more than 15 lakh records. The records keep increasing in thousands every 15 days. Is there anyway i can reduce the time to retrieve? basically i have a select statement with a few conditions and a clause for the id's of these records.
How can I make a recursive algorithm in TSQL without using a large amount of resources?
New hires are put on a 6 month probation period, Their probation ends at the 6 month mark + sick time isnull(floor(sick_hours/8),0) they accrued during that 6 months. Their accrued sick days are added to the 6 month probation period to establish a new probation end date.
I then have to do the following loop:
1)Determine if any of the days between the original probation end date and the new probation end date have any weekend days or holidays for a particular employee.
2)If it does, I add those days to the new probation end date to create a newer probation end date. a.I then go back up to step 1).
3)If it does not, I jump out of loop and look at the next employee on probation.
Note: I already have coding for determining number of sick days accumulated during an employee’s probation period. Recursive CTE? Recursive function? Other?
We have several database linked via merge replications. Due to business requirements, we need to delete 5M rows in one table, we did it on one subscriber. However, the publisher kept uploading the deletion operations from the subscriber and blocked any downloading operation from publisher to subscriber. How can we acceralte the replications now as this has already operated in 2 days, and will continue 1-2 days? Is it possible to set the publisher take the downloading before uploading? How to speed up large amount data deletion operations in replication environment?
I have an interesting challenge. we are not allowed to allow users direct access to data in our SQL Server. Audit requires us to take the data out of our production server and pass it to the user. my situation is i have a table in SQl with over 100,000 records and growing. i want to pass that to an access data base. i am utilizing DTS and a data transform.
i s there a better way? the package is running slow and even appears to freeze. i see this amount of data as growing as well.
A friend reminded me of a problem we tried to solve a few years ago and were unsuccessful. Below is a copy of the email he sent me. We would very much appreciate any ideas from the community. Thanks!Lets start with a simple schema where you have 4 tables:
I have a combo box where users select the customer name and can eithergo to the customer's info or open a list of the customer's orders.The RowSource for the combo box was a simple pass-through query:SELECT DISTINCT [Customer ID], [Company Name], [contact name],City,Region FROM Customers ORDER BY Customers.[Company Name];This was working fine until a couple of weeks ago. Now wheneversomeone has the form open, this statement locks the entire Customerstable.I thought a pass-through query was read-only, so how does this do atable lock?I changed the code to an unbound rowsource that asks for input of thefirst few characters first, then uses this SQL statement as therowsource:SELECT [Customer ID], [Company Name], [contact name],City, Region Fromdbo_Customers WHERE [Company Name] like '" & txtInput & "*' ORDER BY[Company Name];This helps, but if someone types only one letter, it could still bepulling a few thousand records and cause a table lock.What is the best way to populate a large combo box? I have too muchdata for the ADODB recordset to use the .AddItem methodI was trying to figure out how to use an ADODB connection, so that Ican make it read-only to eliminate the locking, but I'm striking outon my own.Any ideas would be appreciated.Roy(Using Access 2003 MDB with SQL Server 2000 back end)
Hi every one, I am facing problem in printing the reports from browser and also when i export it to pdf,the problem i am facing is blank pages are coming when report column getting the large amount of text around 2500 characters into column value. can any one help me in this issue?. if the report is getting acceptable amout of data it is printing in proper way i.e no balnk pages at all.i maintained all properties like margins+body size < page size.
Currently - we have two-node A/P cluster residing on flash array. Need to leverage AlwaysOn to offload processing. Replica server with have Flash storage. Replica node has same CPU and memory footprint. 10GB connection between nodes. Anyone generating such large transaction log for 15/30 minute time period?
How to INsert and Update Large Amount of Records (4 Lacs) into Destination Table Through Business Intelligence Studio Using SSIS Pacakge .How to Achieve this .i tryed with left outer join & conditional split but the problem its not able to insert & update records simultaneously . can any one give me a sample . Thanks & Regards Jeyakumar.M
guys,I have a project need to move more than 100,000 records from onedatabase table to another database table every week. Currently, usersinput date range from web UI, my store procedure will take those dateranges to INSERT records to a table in another database, then deletethe records, but it will take really long time to finish this action(up to 1 or 2 hours).My question is if there is some other way I should do to speed up theaction, I am thinking about use bcp to copy those records to datafileand then use bcp to insert it into SQL Server table. Is this the rightway to do it or should I consider other solution (then, what is thesolution.)Thanks a lot!
We are in the middle of re-designing few tables (namely transaction tables) that would store very large data and would be hosted on cloud (Azure). The old design of this product breaks transaction tables into monthly tables. i.e. say ORDERS Table would be physically broke into twelve monthly tables over a year like ORDERS0115 (mmyy), ORDERS0215 and so on.
We are in the opinion that keeping the entire transactions in one Table is better. Would like to know what's the best practices for transaction tables like the one mentioned above? Is it better to use one table with partitions. I read somewhere that partitions can slow down SELECT queries if not designed and thought properly.Since this would be hosted on cloud (Azure), do you think some additional things are to be taken care? How a site like Amazon keeps their transactions tables?
I want to analyze procedure cache, to find inefficient plans and parameter issues.
I do it trow DMV But my requests to DMV are very slow and demand resources because procedure cache is about several GB Actually I dont need on-line analysis.
Is it possible to have fast snapshot of procedure cache?
I have a 2 node cluster having 4 cores each wherein having 3 instances of SQL 2008 R2 enterprise comprising of 60 databases, 20 on each instance. I need to setup mirroring for each of the databases to a secondary server having 4 cores and 3 instances. What i understand is that in this case the mirror server will be providing max of 512 worker threads and the 60 mirror databases would consume 240 threads.what all needs to be checked for looking into the feasabilty of going ahead with a async mirror setup as mentioned above.
I've installed the MDW (Mangement Data Warehouse) database on our central monitoring SQL Server. I've then added a number of servers to be monitored. The data is collected on the servers that are being monitored and uploaded to the central MDW Monitoring server.
On the servers that are being monitored, I'm seeing a large number (over 1000) of SPIDs being generated by 'SQL Server Data Collector'.
Is this normal behaviour? I've seen more blocking as a result of this.
Is there any way to reduce the number of SPIDs generated?
Hi gurus, I'm creating a web application where I will have a large number of tables (between 10k and 20k), this is done for the sake of scalability as tables will be moved to different database servers as the application grows and also for performance (smaller indexes). I'm worried though how having a large number of tables could affect the performance of SQL Server as the application will start on one single database server. I tried to find some resources on that on the internet but couldn't find any.
I would really appreciate if you can give me some advice and if you have any good links that would be great...
Hi gurus, I'm creating a web application where I will have a large number of tables (between 10k and 20k), this is done for the sake of scalability as tables will be moved to different database servers as the application grows and also for performance (smaller indexes). I'm worried though how having a large number of tables could affect the performance of SQL Server as the application will start on one single database server. I tried to find some resources on that on the internet but couldn't find any.
I would really appreciate if you can give me some advice and if you have any good links that would be great...