Linked Server Errors After Failover But Works When It Is Failed Back
Feb 15, 2008
We are using SQL Server 2005 (9.0.3054 on Windows 2003 RC2 SP2 with clustering two instances. We are running an instance on both boxes.
I have 2 linked servers to the same server on the first box (SQL1C) that use different SQL Logins to connect to the same box but to different databases. One uses the name of the server and one uses the name of the server with a 2 at the end of it. (servername and servername2). The second linked server was added recently and is used very frequently by the new application. The other thing is there is a server with the name servername2. They are SQL boxes but I am not sure what version or what they are running on. If it turns out to be important, I will ask.
Here's what is happening:
When we fail over to the second box, up until recently, we had no problems. All linked servers worked well. But since we have added this new linked server, when we fail over, the linked server no longer works and we get an error like from the Cold Fusion application:
[Macromedia][SQLServer JDBC Driver][SQLServer]TCP Provider: An existing connection was forcibly closed by the remote host.
I got a similar error in EMS, but did not copy it to save it. Since this is a production server, I can't really just try things.
We checked to make sure all IPs from box1 and box2 are allowed access to the server and they are not using IP blocking for inside the university domain.
There are no errors in the SQL Logs. I checked the application logs and found no errors for the linked server. The only error I could find and I didn't think it was related but I will include it was this:
Closed event notification conversation endpoint with handle '{4F54167A-F3D0-DC11-97FE-000E0CB2D7CA}', due to the following error: '<?xml version="1.0"?><Error xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/SQL/ServiceBroker/Error"><Code>-8470</Code><Description>Remote service has been dropped.</Description></Error>'.
Any ideas? One of our pplications goes down when the cluster fails over now. Help PLEASE!
I have SQL Server 2008 R2 database mirroring setup with witness. Below database connection string is used by the application  jdbc:sqlserver://<Server_A>MSSQLSERVER;databaseName=<Mirrored_DB>;port=1433;failoverPartner=<Server_B>MSSQLSERVER  During some maintenance activity at the OS side , I tried to manually failover database from Server_A to Server_B. It took long time for failover to Server_B. While failing over the Mirrored_DB database goes in In Recovery status and application is not able to connect to database. I waited for long time more than 40 mins for database to come online on Server_B but it did not work.So I have recovered database on Server_B using RESTORE DATABASE Mirrored_DB WITH RECOVERY.  After database was recovered on Server_B application was not able to connect to database with error as "The database <Mirrored_DB> on server Server_BMSSQLSERVER is not configured for database mirroring".  My Question is
Why manual failover did not get back database on secondary server upwhy the original  connection string below is not able to connect to the database while database is online on Server_B  but without mirroring
 jdbc:sqlserver://<Server_A>MSSQLSERVER;databaseName=<Mirrored_DB>;port=1433;failoverPartner=<Server_B>MSSQLSERVER
We have a mirror setup, with a third server that needs to be linked to this mirrored setup. The link server setup only allows you to specify the primary server. How will the linked server setup know what the secondary server is? Thanks
We have a mirrored db setup, with a third server that needs to be linked to this mirrored setup as a linked server. The link server setup only allows you to specify the primary server. How will the linked server setup know what the secondary server is? Thanks
The following query that uses a linked server is giving me the error message below after I initiate a failover (ALTER DATABASE Northwind SET PARTNER FAILOVER). I have SQL Server 2005 SP2. I think that without the service pack there is another error too.
The query is run from a database other than northwind of course. select * from DualLink.northwind.dbo.Test1
Please note that: without a failover it works perfectly it always work if I try to run it a second time - only the first time it fails. it fails the first time for each of the open connections. A new connection that was open after the failover will work fine.
A transport-level error has occurred when sending the request to the server. (provider: TCP Provider, error: 0 - An existing connection was forcibly closed by the remote host.)
A transport-level error has occurred when sending the request to the server. (provider: Shared Memory Provider, error: 0 - No process is on the other end of the pipe.)
it is possible to create Linked server with Failover partner option. I can query when primary server and getting the error when I set the DB Fail over. I have tried with following script and also gone through different sources, but failed. Please see the script and error below.
I have created a linked server (to an AS/400) via MSDASQL. It works fine when I execute queries locally (i.e. from Management Studio running on the SQL 2005 server).
However, when I execute a query from a remote machine I get an error (see below for the exact message).
I know the ODBC connection is between the SQL server and the AS/400, and that the remote client does not have connectivity to the AS/400. But shouldn't the SQL server be able to pass the query through to the linked server even if the query is initiated from a remote machine?
Does anyone have any suggestions on how I can resolve this problem so that queries against the linked server can be executed from remote machines?
Errors:
OLE DB provider "MSDASQL" for linked server "MERCURY" returned message "[Microsoft][ODBC Driver Manager] Driver's SQLSetConnectAttr failed".
OLE DB provider "MSDASQL" for linked server "MERCURY" returned message "[IBM][iSeries Access ODBC Driver]Key value in connection string too long.".
Msg 7303, Level 16, State 1, Line 1 Cannot initialize the data source object of OLE DB provider "MSDASQL" for linked server "MERCURY".
I am runing Windows 2003 which has both SQL2000 and SQL2005.
The following works in 2000 but not 20005
Code Snippet DECLARE @sql nvarchar(4000) set @sql = 'sp_addlinkedserver @server = N''dbAccessPO'', @provider = N''Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0'', @srvproduct = N''OLE DB Provider for Jet'', @datasrc = N''C:Temppopts.mdb''' exec sp_executesql @sql set @sql = 'sp_addlinkedsrvlogin ''dbAccessPO'', FALSE, ''sa'', ''Admin'', NULL' exec sp_executesql @sql
Running this:
Code Snippetselect * from dbAccessPO...MyTable
Produces this error:
Code Snippet OLE DB provider "Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0" for linked server "dbAccessPO" returned message "Unspecified error". Msg 7303, Level 16, State 1, Line 1 Cannot initialize the data source object of OLE DB provider "Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0" for linked server "dbAccessPO".
I have setup a database mirroring session with witness - MachineA is the principal, MachineB is the mirror, and MachineC is the witness. Each SQL Server instance is hosted on its own machine. The mirroring is working correctly. If I submit data to the database on MachineA, and then unplug the network cable on MachineA, MachineB automatically becomes the principal, and I can see the data that I originally submitted to MachineA on MachineB. All the settings are showing correctly in Management Studio.
My issue is with the SQL Native Client and a front-end application that needs to make use of this database. I have setup my front-end application to use the ODBC client and specified the failover server in both the ODBC setup and the connection string. Here is the connection string that I am using :
Everything works perfectly on my front-end application when MachineA is the principal. If I unplug the network cable on MachineA, MachineB becomes the principal, and the failover occurs correctly on the database side. The problem is that my front-end application is not able to query the database on MachineB.
BUT - if I plug the network cable back in on MachineA (making the database on MachineA the mirror), the front-end application now works and can access the principal database on MachineB. I wrote a quick tester application to verify what I am seeing, and I am convinced that this is what is happening. The mirroring is working perfectly, and everything is setup correctly. The SQL Native Client is setup correctly. The problem is that the automatic failover to MachineB that is built into the SQL Native Client only works if both servers are plugged in.
In this scenario, when I plug both servers in, I know that the front-end app is definitely pulling from MachineB (since the mirror database on MachineA is in recovery mode, it's unavailable, and the front-end app displays the server that it is pulling data from).
Am I using an out-dated SQL Native Client? The version number displayed in the ODBC configuration page is 2005.90.2047.00, and is dated 4/14/2006. Has anyone experienced this issue? I'm guessing that it's a problem in the SQL Native client, since the mirroring really seems to be working correctly.
Hi,I'm using sql server 2000 sp4.I've 2 databases linked, an instance and my local.I'm getting two different errors when trying to update the remote table(local server) from the instance.There is only one row of data in the table with an identity field.1st sql:-UPDATE [local].[database].dbo.NUMBERS SET [f 1]=3This gives me the error:-Server: Msg 8180, Level 16, State 1, Line 1Statement(s) could not be prepared.Server: Msg 170, Level 15, State 1, Line 1Line 1: Incorrect syntax near '1'.If I was to remove the space from [f 1] and use [f1] it would workfine."select [f 1] from [dev001].[fashion Master].dbo.numbers"will return the correct valueAny Ideas ?2nd sql:-UPDATE [local].[database].dbo.NUMBERS SET [field1]=isnull([field1],0)+1This gives me the error:-Server: Msg 7306, Level 16, State 2, Line 1Could not open table '"fashion Master"."dbo"."NUMBERS"' from OLE DBprovider 'SQLOLEDB'. The provider could not support a row lookupposition. The provider indicates that conflicts occurred with otherproperties or requirements.[OLE/DB provider returned message: Multiple-step OLE DB operationgenerated errors. Check each OLE DB status value, if available. No workwas done.]OLE DB error trace [OLE/DB Provider 'SQLOLEDB' IOpenRowset::OpenRowsetreturned 0x80040e21: [PROPID=DBPROP_BOOKMARKS VALUE=TrueSTATUS=DBPROPSTATUS_CONFLICTING], [PROPID=DBPROP_COMMANDTIMEOUTVALUE=600 STATUS=DBPROPSTATUS_OK], [PROPID=Unknown PropertyIDVALUE=True STATUS=DBPROPSTATUS_OK], [PROPID=DBPROP_IRowsetLocateVALUE=True STATUS=DBPROPSTATUS_CONFLICTING],[PROPID=DBPROP_IRowsetChange VA...If I was to remove the isnull part, then it will work okAny ideas
I am getting a linked server connectivity errors randomly. We have a set of DTS packages to pull data from OLTP (SQL 2000) to reporting server (SQL 2005) through linked server and both instances are on same server. The process is running ok on Acceptance server, and failing on production server. It is throwing the following error randomly, and it is getting fixed for a while after restarting SQL 2000 service.
An OLE DB error has occurred. Error code: 0x80004005. An OLE DB record is available. Source: "Microsoft OLE DB Provider for SQL Server" Hresult: 0x80004005 Description: "TCP Provider: The specified network name is no longer available. ". An OLE DB record is available. Source: "Microsoft OLE DB Provider for SQL Server" Hresult: 0x80004005 Description: "OLE DB provider "SQLNCLI" for linked server "GIS_STG" returned message "Communication link failure".". An OLE DB record is available. Source: "Microsoft OLE DB Provider for SQL Server" Hresult: 0x80004005 Description: "[DBNETLIB][ConnectionRead (recv()).]General network error. Check your network documentation.".
I've got a linked server to an attomix database. When i send an erroneous statements to the server an error message is returned to the Message pane is SSMS as below:-
OLE DB provider "MSDASQL" for linked server "noble" returned message "[Noble Systems Corp.][ATOMIX ODBC Driver]Atomix error - (-217)Column (crap) not found in any table in the query.
".Msg 7215, Level 17, State 1, Line 5, Could not execute statement on remote server 'noble'.
I'm trying to store this error using the ERROR_MESSAGE() function but i only get the second statement ('Could not execute statement on remote server 'noble'.') rather than the real error in the first line. The first line statement is displayed in black as a message rather than red for an error.
I have a script that inserts rows from a linked server. It basically looks like this:
use mydb; go insert into my.table (col1, col2, ...) select col1, col2, ... from LinkedServer.db.my.table;
The DDL for both tables is identical: 550 columns (de-normalized from a data warehouse), of which 548 are varchar(max). The remaining two are varchar(255). (not my design! but unchangeable at the moment).
Running my query raises an error:
Cannot create a row of size 9948 which is greater than the allowable maximum row size of 8060. The statement has been terminated.
Now, inserting rows on the table on the LinkedServer has never been an issue. (Since most columns are varchar(max), SQL has the option to store the data off-row.) The data is there, intact and whole. However, when pulling it into my target server using a LinkedServer (4-part naming), I get the error.
Three pairs of eyes have confirmed that the table definitions are identical on both source and target.
What can be the reason(s) why I can't get data from a linked server using an ODBC datasource that works fast & fine from MS Access?
I have an ODBC connection (System DSN) configured for an Informix ODBC driver. The Test button (belonging to this driver-setup) reports a successfull connection test. Getting data from this database by linking tables in MS Access works fast and easy. But I have tried for many days now to setup a linked server from SQL Server (2005) Creation goes fine, but as soon as I issue a query, (e.g. 'select * from infrem723...remotetable' or using 'openquery') I get the following error: ---
Msg 7399, Level 16, State 1, Line 1
The OLE DB provider "MSDASQL" for linked server "infrem723" reported an error. The provider did not give any information about the error.
Msg 7303, Level 16, State 1, Line 1
Cannot initialize the data source object of OLE DB provider "MSDASQL" for linked server "infrem723".
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Why is Access able to read what "MSDASQL" cannot? I am desperate - can anybody help?Thanks a lot!
1. Once fail over to secondary replica, what will happen to connected session in primary node? can the session fail over to secondary seamlessly or need to re-login. what happen committed transactions which has not write to disk. 2. Assume I have always on cluster with three nodes, if primary fails, how second node make write/ read mode. 3. after fail over done to 2nd secondary node what mode in production(readonly or read write). 4. how to rollback to production primary ,will change data in secondary will get updated in primary.
An error has occurred while establishing a connection to the server. When connecting to SQL Server 2005, this failure may be caused by the fact that under the default settings SQL Server does not allow remote connections. (provider: Named Pipes Provider, error: 40 - Could not open a connection to SQL Server)
-This is the error that is being generated once the site is hosted. If I run my code from my machine and access my remote sql 2005 database it works fine. It is when I try to login from my URL directly that I get the error. Any thoughts? Thanks.
Is there any body who create a linked object in sql server 2005 SP2 to Oracle9i sucessfully? I create a link using MS OLE DB provider for oracle, it is ok but I can select the table. It gave me invalid object name linkname.owner.tablename error. If I create a link using MS OLE DB provider for odbc, it failed saying system error.
"ODBC Driver Manager: Invalid connection string attribute. Specified driver could not be load due to system error 5(oracle in oraHome92)(SQL server, error 7303)"
I installed oracle odbc 9.2 on sql server 2005 server and tested it ok. Why link server object can't create?
hi all, i posted this somewhere else but i think here is the right group.
i have a dts that shld write to a text file located at a mapped drive. i read somewhere that sql job does not recognise mapped drive, so i use UNC path in form \128.1.1.1dtsfile, which dtsfile folder is the shared folder name. i opened the folder permission to everyone.
thats abt the remote server. the sql server i am running is on windows NT, logon using Administrator to local. my sql is SQL 2000. i register the server using sa username. the server agent is start up using System account.
now the problem is when i run the dts interactively/manually, it runs succesfully. but when i run it thru SQL job it says "Access denied". Or full error is like this,
DTSRun: Loading... DTSRun: Executing... DTSRun OnStart: DTSStep_DTSDataPumpTask_1 DTSRun OnError: DTSStep_DTSDataPumpTask_1, Error = -2147467259 (80004005) Error string: Error opening datafile: Access is denied. Error source: Microsoft Data Transformation Services Flat File Rowset Provider Help file: DTSFFile.hlp Help context: 0 Error Detail Records: Error: 5 (5); Provider Error: 5 (5) Error string: Error opening datafile: Access is denied. Error source: Microsoft Data Transformation Services Flat File Rowset Provider Help file: DTSFFile.hlp Help context: 0 DTSRun OnFinish: DTSStep_DTSDataPumpTask_1 DTSRun: Package execution complete. Process Exit Code 1. The step failed.
i really hope and appreciate if someone out there can help me out. thanks!
ps: pls let me know if more clues needed from my environment settings.
I have setup database mirroring on two Windows 2003 R2 x64 servers using SQL Server 2005 SP1 Developer Edition. Our application is connecting to SQL Server using a SQL Server login. The application is using ADO and SQL Native Client to connect to the server. After a failover, our app attempts to reconnect to the database. The reconnect fails with the error:
Cannot open database "db1" requested by the login. The login failed.
The login is not associated with a user in the new principal database. I run sp_change_users_login to reconnect the user and login. sp_change_users_login says that it fixed 1 orphaned user. Our app then reconnects successfully.
I have tried several failovers, and each time I see the same behavior. The association between the login and user gets lost.
The issue is definitely with the login. I tried using sa to connect to the database, and then our app was able to reconnect after a failover.
Is this a known issue with database mirroring? Is it fixed in SP2?
I have the folowing problem that I could use some help with :
I have an SQL server database acting as a back end to an access dbase. The SQL srv table contains over 32 million records and I am trying to use an append query (in access) to import a further 2 million records to the SQLSRV table. The append query fails with the message 'Insert on table bcdsales failed' followed by an ODBC timeout error message. I can append one record fine but a mass import fails.
Unfortunately i can't use SQL srv to do the import (internal policy says we must stick with access front end for now).
I've got a popular problem so i get a message that server acces denied! ..
But that what is different in my error.... When i use same setting same database and connection string (on MSDE server) there is no problem...
On SQL server i have got windwos authentication but i added all accounts as ASPNET and SA.... and when i try to connect by
RETTO - name of my server
server=RETTO;uid=sa;pwd=password;database=db1; or by Integrated Security=SSPIserver=RETTO;uid=RETTOASPNET;database=db1;
I CAN BROWSE RECORDS THERE ARE NO PROBLEMS WITH CONNECTION!!! but when i try to update or iinsert or delete something in database there becomame this error that access denied or server does not exist!!!
PLEASE HELP I'm FIGHTING WITH THAT FOR OVER 5 DAYS!!!
I MADE FOR MY ACCOUNTS (SA, ASPNET) ALL THINGS ALLOWED AS EXECUTING stored procedures.. OR ACCESING datatables with insert delete and update query WHERE IS THE PROBLEM!!!??
We are having problems getting the ADO.NET client to failover in a timely manner in a web application. Here's what happens:
1) Database fails over in 3 to 5 seconds 2) Clients attempt to login to primary and receive SQL server not available errors 3) The clients slowly start to connect and succeed without errorson the secondary. 4) We are still see SQL Server login errors on the primary, even after the failover 5) When we failback to the primary, it all happens within a few seconds (no problems)
If we recycle IIS, this problem goes away
Here's what we have tried 1) Turning off connection pooling (has no effect). We also can see the connections get killed on the primary server 2) Applying this hotfix (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/944099)
And yes, we are running a script to sync up the SIDS so that doesn't appear to be a problem. What seems to be happening is the primary server is getting stuck in the ADO.NET application memory. The problem is we don't know how to fix it.
BTW, our hardware is SQL Server 2005, Windows Server 2003, .NET 2.0 (and .NET 3.5)
Let me know if you need additional information. Thanks in advance
Server : Windows server 2008 DB Server : SQL Server 2008 (SP1) Â Here are the series of events which happened.
1.) Event ID: 1135 Cluster node 'XYZ' was removed from the active failover cluster membership. The Cluster service on this node may have stopped. This could also be due to the node having lost communication with other active nodes in the failover cluster. Run the Validate a Configuration wizard to check your network configuration. If the condition persists, check for hardware or software errors related to the network adapters on this node. Also check for failures in any other network components to which the node is connected such as hubs, switches, or bridges.
2.) Event ID: 1049 Cluster IP address resource 'SQL IP Address 1 (XYZ)' cannot be brought online because a duplicate IP address '10.9.8.113' was detected on the network. Â Please ensure all IP addresses are unique.
3.) Event ID: 1069 Cluster resource 'SQL IP Address 1 (XYZ)' in clustered service or application 'SQL Server (MSSQLSERVER)' failed.
4.) Event ID: 1049 Cluster IP address resource 'Cluster IP Address' cannot be brought online because a duplicate IP address '10.9.8.112' was detected on the network. Â Please ensure all IP addresses are unique.
5.) Event ID: 1069 Cluster resource 'Cluster IP Address' in clustered service or application 'Cluster Group' failed.
6.) Event ID: 1066 Cluster disk resource 'Cluster Disk 25' indicates corruption for volume '?Volume{88552e6f-aea2-11df-9790-0026b92fffa7}'. Chkdsk is being run to repair problems. The disk will be unavailable until Chkdsk completes. Chkdsk output will be logged to file 'C:WindowsClusterReportsChkDsk_ResCluster Disk 25_Disk16Part1.log'. Chkdsk may also write information to the Application Event Log.
7.) Event ID : 1066 Cluster disk resource 'Cluster Disk 26' indicates corruption for volume '?Volume{88552e05-aea2-11df-9790-0026b92fffa7}'. Chkdsk is being run to repair problems. The disk will be unavailable until Chkdsk completes. Chkdsk output will be logged to file 'C:WindowsClusterReportsChkDsk_ResCluster Disk 26_Disk4Part1.log'. Chkdsk may also write information to the Application Event Log.
8.)Â Event ID: 1049 Â (Same message as point 2)
9.)Â Event ID: 1069 Â Â Â Â (Same message as point 3)
10.) Event ID : 1049 (same message as point 4)
11.) Event ID :1069Â (same message as point 5)
12.) Event ID :1205 The Cluster service failed to bring clustered service or application 'Cluster Group' completely online or offline. One or more resources may be in a failed state. This may impact the availability of the clustered service or application.
13.) Event ID: 1069 Cluster resource 'Cluster Disk 17' in clustered service or application 'SQL Server (MSSQLSERVER)' failed.
14.) Event D : 1049 (same message as point 2)
15.) Event ID: 1069 Cluster resource 'SQL IP Address 1 (XYZ)' in clustered service or application 'SQL Server (MSSQLSERVER)' failed.
16.) Event ID : 1205 Â The Cluster service failed to bring clustered service or application 'SQL Server (MSSQLSERVER)' completely online or offline. One or more resources may be in a failed state. This may impact the availability of the clustered service or application. Â first of all,I went through all the logs, and could not find the reason for fail-over initialization. There should be some thing logged why the failover happened? secondly after failover the service was not coming online due to duplicate IP address detection.
Later when we try  to manually bring the service online from cluster management it comes online successfully. I don't understand how would duplicate IP address get resolved when we start manually.
Lastly we see few errors related to physical disk resource between failover retries, is this could be the correlated to failover error ?
I get this error when trying to alter a stored procedure that has an insert statement referencing a new linked server I created:
INSERT INTO [servername].databasename.dbo.DirectReport ...
Msg 18456, Level 14, State 1, Procedure Get_Direct_Pay_Move_Data, Line 17 Login failed for user 'NT AUTHORITYANONYMOUS LOGON'.
I added Administrators and my logon to the permissions of my linked server but still get this error when it tries to save my stored proc...the one which has that insert.
Anyone live in seattle (meet on cap hill)? I have been stuck for weeks now and can't wait any longer wasting time - i will pay someone to set me up correctly quickly. I doubt this will be resolved online, but here goes... I need a datagrid to bring up simple database info (northwind) instead of showing the error 'login failed for mycomputeraspnet'. I am using windows authentication and my string is connectionstring = datasource=(local)\netsdk;initial catalog=Northwind;integrated security=sspi; persistent security=false;, I have seen online they say alter the authorization in the app virtual directory-- is that the C/inetpub/wwwroot or the web config of my project? I did so in the web config of my project, and also I added the impersonate=true to same already. I shared all the folders and made sure they are not read-only. I am flabbergasted. Paul XP pro 2004 sp 2 vis studio 2002 w updates C# Asp web app project
In migrating our back end database from VFP8 to SQL we use linked servers to do a variety of tasks as well as some customized reporting applications. We are having issues with setting up the linked servers in SQL 2000 to VFP8 tables.
When you set up a linked server, locally it seems to work ok, sometimes we have authentication problems and have to switch back and forth between Windows and SQL which is annoying but manageable.
However when you start using the same SQL instance from other boxes by adding it in Enterprise Manager errors occur.
Error 7303: Could not initialize data source object of OLE DB provider 'vfpoledb.1'.
OLD DB Trace Error [OLE/DB Provider 'vfpoledb.1' IDBInitialize::Initialize returned 0x80040e21].
I have downloaded and installed the VFP8 OLE DB .dll from the Microsoft website but still have this issue. Can anyone shed any light?
Does anybody know of a way to rollback SQL Server 2005 databases back to SQL Server 2000? Is there a way of doing it without resorting to Copy Database Wizard? I love to find a way of attaching a SS 2005 database to a SS 2000 instance without any issues.
I recently upgraded to SS 2005 and I am very unhappy with the SS 2005 and I want to rollback to SS 2000, which was a lot more stable. I am having several major issues that are affecting my whole company's day-to-day operations and the managers are not happy. Some of the issues include night time batch running very sluggish for no apparent reason. This is a biggest problem because it only occurs once or so a week and causes a disturbance with the daily activities when the night time processing isn€™t completed on time. The rest of the time, the batch processing runs great, even a little better then on SS 2000. I don't believe it is a matter of my application needing to be retuned because if that was the case, then why isn't it running sluggish every night? Also, it's never the same day that the sluggish behavior occurs. If it was occurring on the same night, then I would have something to investigate within our application, but it doesn't. Another issue that I am having involves a night time job that restores a copy of the production database to the Data Warehouse server to be used for updating the data warehouse. Again, most of the time it runs great (~2 1/2 hours), but once or twice a week, it goes stupid and takes 6 1/2 hours for no apparent reason. Again, it is not happening the same day either, which could give me something to invesigate. On SS 2000, this same job ran flawlessly. Never I did I run into situation that the database restoration took that long to run. Even another issue involves a SQL Server Agent Job that was put into suspended state. What's a suspended state and how can I get it out of suspended state? I can find no information about suspended state in BOL. I did a Google and nothing came up. If this suspended state was put in for security reasons, great, but then tell me how I can remove the suspended state. I am also not happy with the fact that I can't get accurate information about the queries that are actively running at that particular moment. In SS 2000, when I noticed high CPU usage on the server, I would run the sp_who2 active stored proc and it would show me all the active thread and how much CPU it was consuming. I would then find the running threads with the highest CPU numbers and investigate the query and see if we could improve it. Now in SS 2005, I get in the same situation and run the sp_who2 stored proc, and there is no smoking gun. All of the active threads are showing very little CPU usage, which I am very suspect of. What the heck happen to sp_who2? I looked at some of the other ways of looking at running processes (i.e... sys.sysprocesses) and they don't appear to be giving the information that I need.
I am very unhappy and I just want to roll back to SS 2000 and wait a couple of years before I upgrade to SS 2005.
Hello I am receiving the dreaded mail error listed above. I can send out a test E-mail from Enterprise Manager to operators, but I cannot run this Transact query:
We had a siutation last night in our production environment that forced us to revert back to an earlier version of the database (before a major code rollout that failed). After restoring the days full backup (with NORECOVERY), and then restoring a DIFF backup (FULL RECOVERY and had checked Preserve Replication Settings)...the transaction replication failed.
Message #1 The replication agent has been successfully started. See the Replication Monitor for more information.
Message #2 2011-03-04 15:07:17.566 Copyright (c) 2008 Microsoft Corporation 2011-03-04 15:07:17.566 Microsoft SQL Server Replication Agent: logread 2011-03-04 15:07:17.566 2011-03-04 15:07:17.566 The timestamps prepended to the output lines are expressed in terms of UTC time. 2011-03-04 15:07:17.566 User-specified agent parameter values:
[code]....
I've tried reinitializing the publication/subscription and while that took brand new snapshots and copied it over to the replicated data server, it did not fix the problem.I read from a different post that I could try running "sp_replrestart" but that ran for about a half an hour and didn't appear to do anything but fill up our log files...did I not wait long enough?
The only thing I know to do at this point is to drop the publication on the production server and rebuild it completely (and with all the tables we're replicating that would take quite a bit of time.
Hey all -We are running SQL 2000 with ALL available service packs, etc.applied. We just built a brand new database server, which has dual2Ghz XEONs, 2GB memory, and the following disk configuration:RAID 1 array (2 disks) Operating System Windows Server 2003RAID 1 array (2 disks) Database LogsRAID 10 array (4 disks) Database DataDisks are SATA, with a 3Ware hardware RAID controller. The machineSCREAMS.We run 5 databases on this machine. 2 of these are fairly large (byour standards, anyway). The second largest database (and the busiestand most important) is consistently generating consistency errors thatbring many important queries down. These are almost ALWAYS in theform of index corruption on one single table. The corruption does notnormally occur on other tables, although it DOES happen once in awhile - rarely - on one of the other tables), nor does it EVER occuron any other databases on the server.The corruption seems to happen right in the neighborhood of midnightALMOST every day, give or take a few minutes, but does not seemdirectly associated with any of our MANY scheduled database cleanuptasks (believe me, we've tried desperately to find an associationusing SQL profiler). At midnight, our database traffic is fairly low,so it does not seem associated with a high traffic level.We are using the FULL recovery model, with log backups every 15minutes, and full backups daily at 12:15am. However, the corruptionhappens consistently BEFORE 12:15, like between 11:50pm and 12:10am.The most frustrating thing is, the database can go WEEKS without anycorruption at all, and then it'll go 4 or 5 days in a row with thisstrange corruption stuff.************************************************** ***********************Typical query errors when the corruption exists include:************************************************** ***********************SQL Server Assertion: File:<p:sqltdbmsstorengdrsinclude ecord.inl>, line=1447Failed Assertion = 'm_SizeRec > 0 && m_SizeRec <= MAXDATAROW'.SQL Server Assertion: File: <recbase.cpp>, line=1378Failed Assertion = 'm_offBeginVar < m_SizeRec'.Server: Msg 3624, Level 20, State 1, Line 7Location: recbase.cpp:1374Expression: m_nVars > 0Connection Broken************************************************** ***********************Most of the responses to this type of issue (failed assertions) on thenewgroups appear to point to hardware failures. However, this isbrand new hardware, AND, it seems to us that if this was a hardwareissue, other databases, tables, and indexes would be affectedrandomly. Isn't that a valid assumption (that if it was hardware,particularly the RAID controller, the corruption would not be in sucha predictable place)? What if we moved the physical database files toanother location on the disk? Would/could that help?If anyone could offer some suggestions as to what may be causing thiscorruption, we would be eternally grateful. It is getting to be areal pain in the A*** to run DBCC CHECKDB with REPAIR_ALLOW_DATA_LOSSevery day or two (it always seems to solve the problem without dataloss, but still...).Again, thanks in advance for your response.Sincerely,Morgan LeppinkJoin Bytes!
