This is related to an earlier post, but I found out that I was able to see SQL Server counters in Performance monitor before applying the patch, but the counters were not present afterwards....
do I need to edit the registry ?
After applying security patch MS03-031 (Sql server ver 8.00.818) aquery that used to execute in under 2 seconds, now takes over 8Minutes to complete. Any ideas on what the heck might be going on?I have tested this extensively and can say for certain that installingthis hot fix is what has caused the performance problem. I just don'tknow why or how to fix it.Brian Oster
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Has anybody here had any issues with the MS03-031 security patch and SQL 2000 on Windows 2003?
We recently installed this patch on one of our test SQL 2000 machines, and the performance of queries running on this machine have gone up (gotten worse) by at least 10X.
We use indexed views and all queries are run with WITH(NOEXPAND) to force the indexed view to be used.
Anyway, after the patch was installed, the queries on the indexed view will ONLY use the clustered index, and not any of the other indexes, causing a Clustered Index Scan.
I removed the patch (well, re-installed SQL) patched it up to SP3a, and performance is back to normal.
Anybody experience anything similar?
Paul
Any suggestions on getting them back? Reinstalling SQL didn't do anything. And yes, I am server administrator.
Thanks!
The SQL server perfmon counters are missing from one of my MSSQL 7.0 servers - they do appear in others just fine.
Can anyone tell me what is wrong and/or how I can add the counters? I have seen archieve notes on this topic but can't access them for some reason (page appears blank when I click on link)
I am using perfmon to remotely monitor the problem server. My login has sysadmin permissions and is an NT admin. on both the server and the monitoring client. The login account for MSSQL server and SQL Agent services are both sysadmins.
Many thanks
Im missing all SQL Server counters in the Performance Monitor
and have looked at article: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=http://support.microsoft.com:80/support/kb/articles/Q196/6/57.ASP&NoWebContent=1
but this article refers to SQL 7...I have 2K with SP3 and MS03-031
How can I get my counters ? thanks
Does any one know, how I can add SQLServer performance monitoring counters back on my NT server. For some reason I am missing these counters. I really do not want to reinstall either the NT OS or SQL OS if there is anyway to aviod this.
Thanks
On some of my database servers, there are SQL Server counters in Performance Monitor. On other servers these are not present. How can I turn these on?
I know with the disc counters you need to explicitly enable them:
diskperf -yv
Is there a parallel for SQL Server? I don't remember doing anything to get them working on the servers that have them. All online articles seem to assume that they just exist.
TIA!
I've always assumed SQL Server performance monitor counters get automatically installed when SQL Server is installed. I recently installed SQL Server on a remote server and noticed the SQL Server performance monitor counters do not appear in Perfmon. Aren't these counters automatically installed during setup?
Dave
SQL 6.5 had counters for monitoring SQL licenses. Where did Microsoft hide them in SQL 7.0? Or did they just disappear? If they are gone, is anyone doing anything to monitor the licenses with something like perfmon? User Connections doesn't help because the application takes several and not always the same number of user connections for one license.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI have 2 SQL Server 7 databases installed on 2 Windows 2000 servers. One box shows all the SQL performance counters with in performance monitor, the other one doesn't. Is there a way to register those SQL counters in performance monitor?
View 1 Replies View RelatedIn the past, I've combined server side traces with Perfmon successfully, which is pretty useful, I know that. I would like to do the same with Extended Events, so I can correlate and analyze the server side as well.
View 4 Replies View RelatedIf I'm on a remote machine, meaning a computer not in the WSFC cluster, and I open SSMS 2014, point it to a SQL Instance, and open activity monitor:
1. I get all the panes and charts except % Processor Time.
2. Then, if I authenticate to the cluster's domain by mapping a drive with valid domain credentials, I'm free to put performance counters in the Perfmon - - - but SQL Activity Monitor shuts down with“The Activity Monitor is unable to execute queries against server SQL-V01INSTANCE1..Activity monitor for this instance will be placed into a paused state.Use the context menu in the overview pane to resume the activity monitor.
Additional information: Access is denied. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80070005 (E_ACCESSDENIED))(Mscorlib)”
3. Of course, the Activity monitor can't be resumed via the context menu. Removing counters and closing the perfmon do not work. I dropped the mapped drive and rebooted the machine. That brought back 95% of the information in the Activity monitor.
4. Further experimentation showed that any mapping of drive shares present on the SQL Server to the computer running SSMS cut off functionality of the 'overview' pane in the remote machine's SQL Activity monitor -- the monitor that had been trying to watch the server offering the shares.
I plan to apply the new security patch on my SQL 7.0 sp3 servers and get my SQL 2000 servers up to SP2 (which apparently already includes this)
But I was reading the Mitigating Factors in the announcement of this vulnerability and one reads as below:
"The effect of exploiting the first vulnerability would depend on how the SQL Server service was configured. SQL Server can be configured to run in a security context of the administrators choosing. (By default, it runs as a domain user). If best practices are followed, and the service is configured to run with the least privileges necessary, it would limit the worst-case damage an attacker could achieve. "
So my question is: What is the best practice for the SQL Server service and Agent service? Also are there resources for Best Practices?
Thanks!!
Hi,
i've a store procedure has a strange behavior, As soon as created has a good performance , but after some times (indeterminated) it takes more time to be execute.... (up to 70s!!!)
The thing that i've not understood was if i take the query inside to the store i execute it separtely I get result immediately... :eek:
Dropping and re-creating procedure,it become newly fast... I've just scheduled a maintenance plan with index optimization and integrity check, but this seems doesn't work ...
Any idea?
Thanks .
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I posted this question before, and got a response about Windows Update. However, I work in a larger corp. and need to know if there are any other answers to this? We use a patch client that rolls out patches and service packs after we have tested them in our environment. What can we do to stay as up to date as possible for security patches?
How are security patches for SQL Server Express made available (e.g., as separate distributions or bundled into other Microsoft patch distribution mechanisms)? Are there specific procedures that I need to put in place to ensure that it gets patched on end user machines?
-Kyle
I am running MSSQL v7.0 with Service Pack 2. I just realized that I have no sql server performance counters on this machine. Does anyone know how to install these performance counters without reinstalling the SQL Server software?
View 1 Replies View RelatedIn the Performance object drop down list of Perfmon.
I don't see the below counter
SQLServer:AccessMethods
SQLServer:BufferManager
SQLServer:Databases
SQLServer:GeneralStatistics
SQLServer:Latches
SQLServer:Locks
SQLServer:MemeoryManager
SQLServer:SQLStatistics.
How to enable these?
Thx
Venu
Hi all,
I have sql 2000 enterprise. From performance monitor, the sql counters are missing. During installation I've made sure that the sqlcounters are installed. The sqlctr80.dll is installed. But still the counters are not showing.
Has anybody come across this, not sure what to do next
On 32 bit SSIS installations, both of the following performance counter objects are visible in perfmon.
SQLServer:SSIS Service
SQLServer:SSIS Pipeline
On 64 bit SSIS installations, only the following is available.
SQLServer:SSIS Service
The SQlServer:SSIS Pipeline counters are nowhere to be found.
Should I re-install? Is this a known issue with 64 bit SSIS?
P.S. Remote or local access administrative access with perfmon makes no difference, the "SQLServer:SSIS Pipeline" performance counters don't appear in the listbox when connecting to Windows 2003 x64 server.
I have a 32-bit application which sometimes runs against 64-bit servers. When it does, I can't read the performance counters published by the FTS service because they're 64-bit only. I get event #1022 from PerfLib in the event log:
Windows cannot open the 64-bit extensible counter DLL msftesqlFD in a 32-bit environment. Contact the file vendor to obtain a 32-bit version. Alternatively if you are running a 64-bit native environment, you can open the 64-bit extensible counter DLL by using the 64-bit version of Performance Monitor. To use this tool, open the Windows folder, open the System32 folder, and then start Perfmon.exe.
Does Microsoft make available 32-bit counter libraries for 32-bit clients of the 64-bit FTS? How do I obtain those bits?
.B ekiM
We have SSIS installed and everything is working great. We are now to the point of wanting to tune one of our longer running packages and the Performance counters are not working. At all. They show up ok but the counter is always at 0. Is there anything special I have to do to get this to work.
One comment I fould was that the Performance Logs and Alerts service needs to be running to see these counters. I tried to start it and it immediately quit. I set it to automatic startup up and run a package. The counter still read 0.
Is there anything else out there I can try to get these counters to return somthing. Thanks.
Aaron
I have been collecting information about 20 performance counters (memory, IO, cpu, SQL) that refresh every 15 seconds, would that have any performance hit in the server? what are best practices when collecting information via performance counters?
Thanks
I want to automate the offloading of SQL Server 6.5 logs before they become full. I've set this up 'manually' by triggering a job to run when the LogSpaceUsed threshold of the SQLServerLOg counter exceeds a certain value, but what I want to do now is to automate the starting of this performance counter. Ideally what I'd like is to (1) Start the counter once SQL is up, having (2) first ensured a particular instance of the counter isn't already executing (3) have some means of detecting whether this counter ever stops running in which case we'd have to restart it. This is probably more of an NT question than anything but if anyone has experience of this please let me know....I have tried trying to get SQlServer to start the performance counter as it starts up. I used sp_makestartup to define a stored procedure which runs on startup, this uses xp_cmdshell to call a CMD file which calls the saved counter definition (a .pmw file, performance monitor workspace) I thought this should work but the counter wasn't loaded......this doesn't check whewther an existing version of the counter is already running anyway.
View 3 Replies View RelatedMy Performance Counters for SQL Server 2005 are corrupted. How do I repair them ?
Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.
Salyx
Specs
Windows 2003 Standard, AMD x64.
SQL Server 2005; x64; 9.00.3042.00; SP2 Standard Edition (64-bit) on Windows NT 5.2 (Build 3790: Service
Pack 2)
This is a new install, so no "upgrade from SQL 2000".
This is a production server, so "reboot" is hopefully not part of the suggested repair.
Symptom
Open Performance Monitor. Open Add Counters. Open Dropdown "Performance Object". Instead of the SQL Server Performance Counter names, a list of 4-digit numbers appears. Other Performance Counters, eg, Processor, work as normal.
Attempted repair 1 - Recovery of system performance counters
Open Command Prompt
CD WindowsSystem32
lodctr /R
This failed to restore the full set of performance counters for an unknown reason.
Attempted repair 2 - Recovery from a backup file from a second host
I used the performance counter backup file from a second host which has an identical windows install. This properly restored the system performance counters, but failed to restore the SQL Server ones. This seems odd, because both system have - as much as I can tell - the same applications installed.
Open Command Prompt
CD WindowsSystem32
REM Load backup file from second host
lodctr /R:c:PerfStringBackup.INI
Attempted repair 3 - Recover SQL Server - specific counters
Open Command Prompt
CD WindowsSystem32
REM Load backup file from second host
lodctr /R:c:PerfStringBackup.INI
REM Clear and re-load MSSQLServer counters...
unlodctr MSSQLServer
lodctr "/R:C:Program FilesMicrosoft SQL ServerMSSQL.1MSSQLBinnsqlctr.ini"
Executing this pretty much wiped most performance counters. Only a small sub-set is now available.
More Info
SQL Server 2005 and later SP2 were installed under the administrator account.
MSSQLServer service runs under its own Windows Account (permission issues ??)
I get Event Log entries regarding x86 vs x64 Performance Counter Libraries. These, however, do not refer to ASP, not SQL Server.
I have 2 (virtually) identical hosts (same install sequence of apps). The Performance Counters on the second host work fine.
Exctrlst.exe lists MSSQLSERVER service, but I don't know how to diagnose the details.
There are so many to choose from, which ones are the most important to monitor?
Also if you have your data files and trans logs set to grow automaticlly and would like to change this to a fixed number is there a way to determine how large you should set them at? Thanks in advance.
:confused:
I have an Alwayson group with 2 Nodes. The SQL Performance counters are always showing on the secondary, but the primary is inconsistent.
I loaded the counters on the primary (unlodctr and lodctr ), restarted the SQL service, and confirmed that the counters were there. 2 days later the counters were gone again. I loaded them again. A week later we had maintenance, failed over to the secondary, and when we failed back to the primary - the counters were gone again….
Does anyone know how to make the ODBC Connection Pooling performance counters work? I read http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;216950 to enable the performance counters, but they still all report 0s.
Thanks,
Mark
Hello,
is there built-in support for monitoring the number of elements in the transmission queue via performance counters?
Thanks,
Hello to all the members.
I have a SQl server on a Win2000 box. The server is located behind a screened subnet, and has no access to the outside world except for 1433 and 445 inbound from a webserver located in a DMZ, forward of the internal firewall. Rules are very tight, and the IIS box is patched and has been hardened further including running urlscan. (allowed verbs=get,head,post. all executable and script types disallowed, permissions very tight) I have written an appication that monitors bad http requests in real time to check that the URL scan is working, and it seems to be. The only way to get to the SQL box, would be running injection on page code (majority written by myself no raw sql) on the web server or launching an exploit over HTTP against known ADODB flaws on the web server. The SQL server is a domain member, the IIS server is a standalone. If theres a way to compromise the SQL box without first breaching both firewalls, or first compromising the IIS server, I dont know how to do it. Still, the sql box began acting up, refusing to accept a terminal services connection (the error stated that there was a failure to load Win32.sys) No sign that the machine had been compromised. I restored from a complete back up, which seemed to fix the terminal services problem, but now the sql performance counters fail to load. Specifically MQPERF.dll. Any ideas on what may have caused the server to have 'issues' (prevailing theory centers around evil spirits), and what can I do to get the performance counters to load. Tried replacing the library.
Thanks in advance,
VLG
SQL Server 2014 BI
Windows 2008 R2
Every time machine is rebooted performance counters are missing.
select * from sys.dm_os_performance_counters returns no records. I execute "lodctr" command and get it back every time.
I would like to know the route cause of this issue, why it gets removed every time the machine is rebooted.
Has anyone written a RSS file that is used to add new Active Directory User/Group to SSRS, and applying security ROLES such as BROWSER?
I have new IT AD group that I need to apply to ALL folders on my PROD, QA and DEV servers. Way too many folders to do via SSMS or Web interface.
Would you be willing to share the RSS file?
Would the Performance Monitor be the best tool
to use if you wanted to find out how many transactions
are being process a day?