Hi,
I am new to SQL Server Administraion, and straight away there
occured a case in which some users modified the database and I have to
track 'em out something this :-
A table was modified on 17 - 03 -2006 and now I want to see what
queries occured on that day how can I do that! I have seen the
transaction log but it ain't helpful. Do help me out!
We are in plan to build a Monitoring tool using PowerShell and Performance Monitor which could monitor 10 to 20 servers. Do you have any reference of any existing tool using Performance Monitor to monitor the SQL Server and available for free? I didn't want to put some effort, if something is available already.
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I do all my monitoring locally for disk space, locks, blocking, I've 10 production servers, We need to centralised the monitoring server so from one server all the monitors can be done. Does anyone has any ideas how memory, cpus consumption, disk space, all alerts, locks, blocking, log space and job completition monitoring can be handled.
Any idea or guidance is appreciated
Thanks
Roma
Folks!
Is it possible to monitor several SQL servers in one window and notify operator about error messages.
May be some new software can make it possible?
Thank you.
I believe we are reaching some limitations with SQL Server and I have been monitoring certain items in the Performance Monitor such as: pages/sec; Bytes received/sec; Bytes sent/sec; % disk read time; % disk write time; % processor time; Log growths; percent log used; and transactions/sec. I notice quite a few spikes in Bytes sent/sec and when the % disk read time spikes for more than a few seconds, users notice a delay.
My thoughts are that 1: We need more memory on our SQL Server box (we currently have 768 meg, need a faster SQL Server box and need to distribute the load of some databases to another SQL Server; and 2: We also have a bottleneck when users are connecting via Citrix to SQL Server via our Terminal2 server (which has been tracked down to simply a slow Terminal2 box with a slow nic card - This has been confirmed that our Terminal2 is definately taking a toll and will time-out when large queries are executed.)
We also have been monitoring each of the server boxes. Are there any other recommendations for SQL Server Performance monitor that anyone could see which would be good to monitor (there are several things which can be selected to monitor?)
We've also noticed that bound MSAccess forms seem to play a significant role in the long spikes for Bytes sent/sec. I'm assuming this might be normal for bound forms and the slow SQL Server box with limited memory. Unbound MSAccess forms do not seem to present any problem and show as quick spikes for the Performance monitor.
Another problem is that I also can't seem to tie back the Performance monitor spikes with specific transactions in the SQL Profiler. Is there any way to pinpoint a spike in the Performance monitor with a specific transaction other than trying to catch the spike and quickly switching to SQL Profiler?
We are planning on upgrading our SQL Server box and also adding in another SQL Server box to help distribute the load with certain databases. We are also getting a faster box for our Terminal2 (citrix) server as these slow-downs/time-outs do not happen internally or when we use Remote Desktop Connection to connect externally (only when we connect externally via Terminal2).
Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thank you in advance.
Iam new to Sql server 2000 administration , would need inputs on counters to monitor so that I can do regular health check up of the system.
Environment:
Sql server 2000 SP3
windows 2003 sp1
2GB RAM
2GHZ processor
Total size of 23 databases = 7.38GB
Counters currently montioring using the task manager on sqlserv.exe :
1. Mem Usage I assuume amount of RAM is consuming
2. VM size is virtual memory in play
3. Page Pool - Not sure what this is ? assuming paging mechnaism in windows
4. NP pool - Not sure on this
5. I/O reads - reads like select to db
6. I/0 writes - insert and update to DB
7. Page File usage - Not sure on this too, please explain
Any other counters or freeware tools to use please suggest and also please explain the above counters 3,4,7 in detail please or point me to links if possible.
Thx in Advance
Sat
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Could u pls tell as to how to find the size of a transaction or monitor it on a server using sql server 2005????
Regards
Rohit
Hi there,
I have decided to move all my transaction handling from asp.net to stored procedures in a SQL Server 2000 database. I know the database is capable of rolling back the transactions just like myTransaction.Rollback() in asp.net. But what about exceptions? In asp.net, I am used to doing the following:
<code>Try 'execute commands myTransaction.Commit()Catch ex As Exception Response.Write(ex.Message) myTransaction.Rollback()End Try</code>Will the database inform me of any exceptions (and their messages)? Do I need to put anything explicit in my stored procedure other than rollback transaction?
Any help is greatly appreciated
My manager has asked me to find a way to monitor the 'up' time of SQL Server. If possible, he would like to be able to do this automatically. Is there a way to monitor when SQL Server is started and when it is stopped? I know that I could look in the error logs, but I would like to do this automatically.
Thanks in advance.
I want to know if there are any tools that will allow
a DBA to monitor changes that occur on SQL databases
(deletion, addittion or modifications) on any objects,
and Sql security.
I have looked at Profiler in SQL and it is very limited
and plus it is huge memory hog and causes degradation on
your servers.
I am trying to monitor a SQL Server in a domain we have a trust in. When I add the computer to monitor I get the choice of monitoring NT objects (Processor, memory, etc) ,but none of the SQL Objects show up. Any ideas. We are using a domain admin account to try this.
View 2 Replies View RelatedWe've got about fifty MSSQL Servers (7.0 and 2000) in our shop.
Can anybody recommend a good tool to monitor all kind of activities and conditions on those servers?
is there a tool / feature of sql server 2005 that allows me to see all objects in memory, locks, users logged in at present and anything else i might need to monitor for things like deadlocks or resource intensive sprocs??
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I'm looking for tool that will help me to monitor and analyze SQL server performance including SQL activities and server activities(cpu, memory usage) as well.
I appriciate any feedback,
Thank you,
Yelena
What are the events to be monitored for a Active/Passive Cluster?
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View 1 Replies View RelatedOur shop is expanding use of SQL Server, both 2000 and 2005. We haveLitespeed on some boxes to handle the backup/recovery jobs. Can I askwhat are considered the best tools for monitoring SQL Server, in termsof things like performance monitoring, tuning and auditing if it ispossible to get all of this functionality in one?What do you use and like?Thanks in advance.Gerry
View 2 Replies View Relatedhi guyz i want to integrate Sql Server 2000 with Microsoft Monitoring tool , and wht I exactly want is , I need a report of each users and their internet history. i have an application on asp.net 1.1 in which i need to import data from some source it may be microsoft proxy server or any monitoring tool. 1 of my mate suggested me to use the tool which lies at : Control Panel -> Ad Remove programs -> Ad Remove windows components -> managment and monitoring tool -> Monitoring he was not sure either this tool can be integrate with sql server or not. but i need some data in to my tables, can any1 help me in this regard kindly ask me if there is any confusion
u guyz can email me as well ..... do let me know if know 1 find any solution
thnx
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SQL Stripes is an application that helps you, the SQL Server DBA, having complete control over your various SQL servers.
From the high-level of monitoring essential components - to the low-level of analyzing your various databases, tables etc…
This is *not* another Query-Analyzer like tool, nor does it intend to be. The idea is that each one of your servers gets a 'Stripe' which contains valuable real-time data on the selected server.
SQL Stripes is an intuitive and easy to use application, which is intended to make your DBA life a bit easier.
SQL Stripes is completely free. Please send your feedback/questions/suggestions
Thanks and enjoy!
We currently use Zabbix to monitor our SQL Servers, generally we use Perf_Counters to gather performance information (CPU Usage, Memory, Blocked process etc.), Zabbix also lets us monitor services as to whether they are up or down. I have searched google looking for any information regarding the monitoring of AlwaysOn/Mirroring within Zabbix and to date ave found nothing. What I am looking to alert on is an indication that Mirroring has stopped/ been interrupted with say something like "Not Synchronized"... Zabbix and monitoring SQL Server 2012 and specifically monitoring AlwaysOn...
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View 3 Replies View RelatedHi,I am currently having dificulties in finding a way to use transactions while using classes for table representation.Let me explain, i have two tables a Customers and a Movements one, so two tables = two classes. Each class supports Insert, Edit and Delete, so if this tables worked seperatly there would be no problem but in this case whenever i create a customer i must create a movement for that customer so the connection don't pass between classes and i cannot use transactions ;(Is there any brilliant way to use transactions any other way? Even between connections or getting a solution for my implementation?Best Regards,Luis Simões
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View 6 Replies View RelatedHello guys!
I am working with SQL Server 2005 a few months, and i need your help about transactions topic.
In first, i hope you are patient with my english, i will try to explain it the best i can ;-)) and now... my question and thanks you in advance.
I am trying to set the transaction option of a foreach loop container task in run time using the Expressions option. There, I have configured the transaction option of this task with a variable value (var type int) and this variable is informed at the beginning of my dts using a script task (values: 0 for Not Supported, 1 for Supported, 2 for Required).
The problem is the transaction option gets the variable value but... the variable value by default. After, during the dts execution, the variable gets the new value but not the transaction option.
In summary, my question is ... is it possible to set the transaction option during the run time?.
Thanks for your help!
Chris.
I have a requirements to collect Transactions per second on 50 databases from a sql server instances.provide me a script to collect TPS for 50 databases?
View 8 Replies View RelatedI have a million plus line program that uses DAO and JET/Access databases. We are modifying the code so that it will work with BOTH JET and SQL Server databases with an eye to moving to just SQL Server eventually.
Much of the code works just fine without change when using DAO and SQL server as 90+ percent of the code is accessing data READ-ONLY. (Jet's ODBC capability is used)
There are however some transactions that will not work.
When I examine the SQL Trace, I notice that after the transaction has begun, the SPID has changed. This happens often when cursors are used, BUT happens even if the only activity after a DBEngine.BeginTrans is issued DO NOT USE CURSORS as in the following code:
DBEngine.BeginTrans
strSQL = "INSERT INTO [TestTable] (MyKey,MyData, MyData2) VALUES (1,'apple','fruit')"
DB1.Execute strSQL
strSQL = "UPDATE [TestTable] SET [MyData] = 'apple2' WHERE [MyKey] = 1"
DB1.Execute strSQL
DBEngine.Committrans
The second DB1.Execute times out: [Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver]Timeout expired
The trace shows a new SPID is opened when the UPDATE query is executed. A new SPID is spawned and the JET engine is sending an SELECT SQL to get the value for the MyKey:
SELECT "dbo"."TestTable"."MyKey" FROM "dbo"."TestTable" WHERE ("MyKey" = 1 )
The second SQL statement is waiting for the first one that is being done in a transaction to be completed. The program is expecting that both of these will be being done on the SAME SPID or at least the same transaction scope.
So, since I have no way of knowing how and when a new SPID will be spawned using DAO, we are not going to use it for when we do transactions.
I have tried to use ADO (Provider=SQLOLEDB.1), but ADO has the same problems as DAO as far as a new SPID being spawned in some circumstances, but it works in more situations than DAO.
The Connection Object is not guaranteed to be attached to a specific SPID - it can change at will. So Cn.Execute done twice in succession may be done on separate SPIDs.
My question is this: Is there a way to make sure that no new SPID is spawned?, Is there a way to know when a new SPID will be spawned so we can know how to avoid this situation? Is there a better way than using ADO? Keep in mind that this program has to be able to use BOTH Access/Jet databases and SQL server.
Note:
I have spent over 160 hours reading about Jet, the VB Guide to SQL Server, searching MSDN, Google etc. No article really does justice to this subject of transactions using DAO, ADO and SQL Server and the issue of the SPIDs (equivalent to a session and the session is the scope of the transaction). If you could be sure to stay on the same SPID, then you could just issue your own SQL Begin Transaction and control it all if you only plan on doing SQL statements without the need for cursors. A Microsoft article on this subject would be really helpful to all the programmers that are just now getting around to migrating to SQL Server.
Also, note, that if we did not do transactions, then we would not have to modify a single line of our code to make it work with SQL Server.
There is virtually no documentation for much of what I have written about in this Thread. I am very surprised as it seems this would have come up for thousands of programmers. I must be missing something, so thank you in advance for your help.
Hi,
i wanna know how to use rollback in sql server without actually using transaction...
is there any way i can do that?
thanx in advance
hi,
i have developed an web-enabled database application using ASp.net, C# and sql server 2000.
now i want to implement transaction controls over the same
can anyone plz help me in implementing the same?
thanks in advance
Hi
I have a couple of sql servers registered in EM which are outside of the domain. Whenever I run queries on them with the query analyzer, they seem not to commit the transaction. When I'm about to close down the window, I'm always told that there are uncomitted transactions.
Is this some kind of a bug, and is there something I can do about it?
Thanks
Martin N Jensen
Hi all,
When i begin a distributed transaction..., do i need to always
set xact_abort on?
But when i tried to put custom error handling to roll back a transaction with a linked server , it seems its impossible (as set xact_abort on, already automatically rolls back the transaction)
Does anyone have any ideas on this?
Thanks in advance
Benny
Hi,
I've tried to enclose a few database operations in a TransactionScope block but it looks like SQL Server CE RM does ignores ambiental transaction.
Here is the code:
static void TestTxn() {
// Command to insert an integer in a table with a single integer column
string cmdPassText = "INSERT TESTTABLE (INTFIELD) VALUES(1)";
// Command to force field type mismatch exception
string cmdFailText = "INSERT TESTTABLE (INTFIELD) VALUES('Foo')";
using (TransactionScope scope = new TransactionScope()) {
using (SqlCeConnection conn = new SqlCeConnection("DataSource = 'Test.sdf'")) {
try {
conn.Open();
SqlCeCommand cmdPass = new SqlCeCommand(cmdPassText, conn);
returnValue = cmdPass.ExecuteNonQuery();
SqlCeCommand cmdFail = new SqlCeCommand(cmdFailText, conn);
returnValue = cmdFail.ExecuteNonQuery();
}
catch (Exception ex){
Console.WriteLine("Command failed");
Console.WriteLine("Exception Message: {0}", ex.Message);
}
}
scope.Complete();
}
}
After first command suceeds and seccond command failes table still has one affected row after transaction.
Am I doing something wrong or System.Transactions.Transaction is not supported with SQL Server CE RM?
Thanks,
Aleksandar
I have a SQL Server 2005 with a linked server to an Oracle RDB 6.0, using the Microsoft OLE DB for ODBC provider. I would like to select some rows from the Oracle RDB and then Update those specific rows afterwards. Whenever I try to do this in a transaction (BEGIN TRAN) I get an error "Driver not capable". Is there any way to do this in a single transaction?
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