We've set up a report farm with two servers, both 64 bit with 4 CPUs each. One has 16Gig and the other 8Gig of memory. We're using Windows NLB and the load test software confirms that the NLB is working. When we run a number of concurrent reports, both servers get utilized, but they only work on a few at a time. The report server queue doesn't seem to be fully utilizing the hardware. From a prior post I've learned that the report server queue automatically runs 4 reports per CPU. This is not occuring for our setup. Has anyone else experienced the same? Are there any configurations that need to be set to open the queue up? The reports are heavy (300,000 records grouped and summed). Does this affect the queuing process?
How to identify your SQL Server version and edition http://support.microsoft.com/kb/321185/
How to obtain the latest SQL Server 2000 service pack http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=290211
Service Pack 4 for Microsoft SQL Server 2000 http://download.microsoft.com/download/1/B/D/1BDF5B78-584E-4DE0-B36F-C44E06B0D2A3/ReadmeSql2k32desksp4.htm#_1461463_hardware_and_software_requiremen_fzpy
Cumulative list of the hotfixes that are available for SQL Server 2000 SP4 http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=894905
A cumulative hotfix package is available for SQL Server 2000 Service Pack 4 build 2187 http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=916287
Which appears to indicate 8.00.760 = sp3/sp3a 8.00.2039 = sp4 8.00.2187 = Cumulative rollup 8.00.2249 Final patch build number
I still have the following question which i would very much appreciate help in answering: If support is required from Microsft what is the acceptable level of SQL Server patching before Microsoft will agree to look at a SQL Server problem. ? SP4 Build 2039 + Build 2040 (awe fix) SP4 Build 2187 cumulative rollup SP4 Build 2249 fully patched as per KB894905 Do I need to apply builds 2187 to 2249 ? If so where/how can I obtain the down loads from ( 8.00.2187 - 8.00.2249) ?
Have logged a call with microsoft support but as yet no responce.
We've had a problem for a few months now that has completely stumped us. We are running a heavily cursored massive data manipulation process on a 32 bit SQL Server instance running on a virtual machine, running ontop of VMWare, with the following specs
Processors: 2x2674MHz processors Memory: 4GB RAID 10 disk config
When we run our process on this machine, in total it runs in 30 hours.
When this process is run on another 32 bit server with the following specs
Processors: 8x3658MHx processors Memory: 8 GB SAN w/ RAID 5 disk config
It runs 25% slower
But here is the real kicker. When this process is run on a 64 bit server with the following specs
Processors: 8x3658MHz processors Memory: 8 GB SAN w/ RAID 5 disk config
It runs 75% slower.
This process consists solely of stored procedures written in TSQL. The weird thing is that on our smaller server, the CPUs' % utilization are evenly balanced (at 20-30%) when this large data manipulation process is running. However on the bigger servers, SQL Server latches onto a single processor and doesn't load balance across other processors. Such that what we're seeing is that only one processor out of the eight will be utilized and it will be throttled at 90% while the other 7 are at zero.
The default configuration settings in all three places.
Has anyone ever seen any behavior like this, where only one processor gets used by SQL Server during processing? Granted our processes are single threaded b/c they are using cursors but, it seems that the single thread shouldn't be restricted to one processor.
I know that you can fully qualify a database and dbo in a statement, but is it possible to do this for different servers? For example, if you have three different servers registered in Enterprise Manager, can you write a script that could query any of the three servers?
I am managing a number of SQL Server 6.5 systems via lan and wan connections. I have a couple of servers which, althought I have an administrator account on the server and access through the fire walls, I can only connect if I set up entries under the client config utility using named pipes with the relevant ip address. The servers are set up to use both tcp/ip and named pipes. When I do connect I dont get the traffic lights, and Service manager shows the servers in indeterminate state although I know they are running OK. When I expand the server in EM, the SQL Executive also does not appear, again the service is running. I am connecting to the server as sa, and can perform all sa functions. I have connected to the server through security manager and it shows me as an administrator with sa rights. We are using standard security on these servers.
I downloaded the windows installer: SQLServerCE31-EN.msi
When I run it, it creates a directory in Program Files The directory has a number of dll files, a Readme file, a word document, and a text document. There is no link to actually launch SQLServer though. I've tried repairing, and removing and reinstalling but the results are the same. Can someone help me figure out how to actually launch this application?
Hello, This is info that I am still not certain about and I just need to make sure, my gut feeling is correct:
A. When a procedure is triggered upon reception of a message in a queue, what happens when the procedure fails and rolls back? 1. Message is left on the Queue. 2. is the worker procedure triggered again for the same message by the queue? 3. I am hoping the Queue keeps on triggering workers until it is empty.
My scenario is that my queue reader procedure only reads one message at a time, thus I do not loop to receive many messages.
B. For my scenario messages are independent and ordering does not matter. Thus I want to ensure my Queue reader procedures execute simultaneously. Is reading the Top message in one reader somehow blocking the queue for any other reader procedures? I.e. if I have BEGIN TRANSACTION when reading messages of the Queue, is that effectively going prevent many reader procedures working simultaneously. Again, I want to ensure that Service broker is effectively spawning procedures that work simultaneously.
Is it possible to force the use of a compound index in a query?create table Test (ColOne int, ColTwo int)The compound index is ColOne + ColTwo.I'm interested in searching on ColTwo, but I also know the value ofColOne will always be the number "1".How do you structure the SQL statement to concatenate the two INTs anduse the index? Note that I don't have any control over the creation ofthese indexes.
I had to migrate my report server (2008R2) to a new domain. I built new server and restored the old ReportServer and ReportServerTempDB into new server and also restored the certificate from old server. The Report Server is running but I don't have full access to all server futures anymore, looks like it's AD authentication messed up. My new account is Admin on new server but I can't see all options, like New Data Source, or wehn going on report level to manage to see all option such as Parameters, Subscriptions, Data Source.
I had been trying to solve this error with no success :
One or more of the server network addresses lacks a fully qualified domain name (FQDN). Specify the FQDN for each server, and click Start Mirroring again.
The syntax for a fully-qualified TCP address is: TCP://<computer_name>.<domain_segment>[.<domain_segment>]:<port>
I had installed three instances on my local machine to test Data base mirroring :
Principal : running SQL Developer Instance
Mirror : running SQL Developer Instance .
Witness : Running SQL Express.
Database mirroring already enabled using startup flag : -T1400
i even tried to configure it with out a witness but still have the same error .
I used the follwoing server name in the mirroring wizard(not localhost) :
We downloaded and installed the trial software of SQL Server 2005 Enterprise edition a month ago. We have purchased a fully licensed version of SQL Server 2005 Standard Edition and would like to apply the licensed version to our workstation clients since their SQL software will eventually expire. Our SQL Server is not an issue since we purchased a new Server and installed the new licensed version of SQL on it.
Is there an easy way to accomplish this or is an uninstall & reinstall of SQL on every workstation required?
I had some SQL queries which are using department ID for join , filter , Group By and Select so , i am having index on department ID of my table File Master scheme ..
The above index only working when there is condition or group by on department ID .and i when i am querying ..
SELECT DISTINCT CL.CLIENT_ID,CL.LOAN_SANCTION_DATE,MIN(CL.INWARD_DATE)AS Inward FROM dbo.FILE_MASTER AS CL GROUP BY CL.CLIENT_ID,CL.LOAN_SANCTION_DATE
and the plan is showing Index scan on index Indx_FM_department_ID .. Why it is not using Index seek , i guess i have both group by Columns in cover index included columns what is the use of cover index then ?
because if i am giving where condition before group by for specific Client ID , Loan Sanction Date it is telling to create separate index on client ID , Loan Sanction Date as per Execution Plan missing index detail ..
Two servers are configured with Windows 2008 / SQL server 2012 utililizing Always-On for HA. We need to upgrade both servers to Windows 2012 / SQL Server 2014 with minimum downtime(Time for Always-On failover). The upgrade to SQL 2014 is straight forward with for minimum downtime.The Windows upgrade(2008 -> 2012) is the problem. From what I have observed and read in blogs.The Windows node to be upgraded must be removed from the Windows cluster before the node can be upgraded to Win 2012.A Win 2008 and Win 2012 node can not reside in the same cluster. If this is true then the only option I can think of is to dump the DB on WIN 2008 server and restore on Win 2012. This is an outage(time it takes to dump and restore).Is there any other method to upgrade these two nodes utilizing Always-On of some other method without downtime?
I just received my licensed disks for upgrading my SQL Server 2005 Evaluation version to a fully licensed version. Do I simply run the two disks over top of the evaluation version or is it a little bit more complicated? Any input would be greatly appreciated. A little new to SQL.
Communications to the remote server instance 'TCP://<mirror_server_neme>:5022' failed before database mirroring was fully started. The ALTER DATABASE command failed. Retry the command when the remote database is started.
This problem is only in production database any testing database include adventureworks mirroring sucessfuly. Why is problem:?
We've got a 3rd party application that periodically runs SQL commands throughout the day. We've been getting issues with this application showing a sql error:
Transaction (Process ID 71) was deadlocked on lock resources with another process and has been chosen as the deadlock victim. Rerun the transaction.
In checking the processes on SQL Server, there were a lot, and process ID 71 was actually hitting a completely different database.
Is there a way to streamline how SQL Server handles processes, and what's the limit at any given time?
Hi. I have installed an SQL 2005 Failover Cluster on a Two Node Active Passive Windows 2003 Cluster.If i am trying to failover from the Active node to the passive Node,The Sql Server,Sql Server Agent and SQL Analysis resources fail,However if i reset the passowrd in the services tab of the above three services on the pasive node,the resources come online. Below is the brief of my setup 1.I have two Active directory domain controllers running Windows 2003 R2 Standard edition with SP2. 2.i have installed a Windows 2003 Two Node Active Passive Cluster as NODE1 and NODE2. 3.The Domain account used to install WIndows 2003 A/P Cluster is Clusteradmin.This account is the member of Administartors on the Domain as well as the Local Admin on NODE1 and NODE2. 4.SQL 2005 with SP2 is installed on both the Nodes as SQL 2005 Failover Cluster.The account used to install SQL 2005 is sqadmin.This account is the member of Administartors on the domain and the member of Local Admins on NODE1 and NODE2. 5.SLQ 2005 has four domain groups for 4 SQL Services.The Services are SQL Server,SQL Server Agent,SLQ Anaylisis Server and Full text Search. 6.Each of these servcie has a seperate service account created for them.All these service accounts areb the members of domain admin and the member of Local Admin on NODE1 and NODE2. 7.Each of these servcies is running under these servcie accounts in the Servcies tab in NODE1 and NODE2. 8.If i fail the resources from NODE1 to NODE2 ,The SQL Server,SQL Server Agent and SQL Anaylisis resources are failing.on going to the service tab of NODE 2 I reset the password for these services,the services come online. 10.The Cluster resources and MSDTC Resources are Failing over successfully.They are coming online successfully. 11,I have a problem with the SQL Server Resources,even if i failback to NODE1 from NODE2,the same resources are failing again.
Hi, i am getting this error when i am running a stored procedure.
Transaction (Process ID XXXX) was deadlocked on lock resources with another process and has been chosen as the deadlock victim. Rerun the transaction.
i think so it is getting this error becasue it blocking it self at one point in the SP
DECLARE cty_Cursor CURSOR FOR SELECT Country FROM TB_Country
declare @cty varchar(2)
OPEN cty_Cursor; FETCH NEXT FROM cty_Cursor into @cty; WHILE @@FETCH_STATUS = 0 BEGIN EXEC SP_DO_SOMETHING @cty FETCH NEXT FROM cty_Cursor into @cty; END; CLOSE cty_Cursor; DEALLOCATE cty_Cursor;
i think so it calls the SP then before SP finsih its working it calls it back from cursor with other argument.
how we can make it sure it finish it execution before it is being called again. i think so we need some sort of lock here but i am not able to find right solution . please anyone suggest something.
my freind asked me to look for him for online book or something very good that teach SQL for SQL server 2000 ... what i need is something like hands on examples that will take user from level 1 to level * .... i have seen alot of stuff in google but i think some of you might know what i need and can direct me to better resources as i could not find someting specail !!!
I have about 50 databases that are only accessed once a month and on a predictable schedule. Would it free up resources on the server if they were kept offline and brought online only when needed ?
SServer PC: Win SBS 2003 with 2.6 GHz processor and 1GB RAMSQL Server 2000 v 2000.8.00.76 (sp3)MS Office 2k3MSJet ms04-014 (latest ost sp8)MDAC v2.8 RTMADO 2.1vb6.exe / ADO 2.0I think this is a SQL Server/ADO problem as I have 2 applications withsame problem.My access database uses a timer based function to insert records intoSQL Server using ADO and stored procedures. Access also uses DAO ,Jet/ odbc to linked tables on SQL Server for many other tasks/forms.All is well when Access 1st run but after a few hours or so the Accessapp grinds to a halt.Upon checking the task manager the mem usuage upto 160MB and handlecount upto 86,000 ! (cpu process % is low).After the "Access Fail" if I stop/start access only, performance isnot returned, I have to stop/start SQL Server.It would seem that allconnections from this PC to SQL server are badly affected, it is nottied to the client application that had the problem.As I could not work out where the problem was I took the Accessfunctionality into a VB6 app, using ADO 2.0, thinking this shouldsimplify matters with Jet and ODBC out of the way.I now have the same problem with the number of handles increasing withevery new timer based function.* code snippet example *If Not OpenConnection Then 'we have not been able to open aconnection to SQL serverCall procLog("Connection failed to SQL server")Exit FunctionEnd If'gVar.cnnSQL is my public ADODB.ConnectionSet cmdSQL = New ADODB.CommandWith cmdSQL.ActiveConnection = gVar.cnnSQL.CommandText = "MyDB.dbo.insert_tblMyData".CommandType = adCmdStoredProc.Execute RecordsAffected:=lngRecs, _Parameters:=Array(lngID, dtDate,intCategory,strNationality,strNotes,strName)End With* code snippet *** After the "Access Fail" if I look at one of my clients, running thesame Access app on another PC, it seems normally responsive when usingone my bound forms to browse the data from same SQL Server **Any ideas anyone ?
The following question applies to SQL Server 8.0.2187 (2000 + SP4+916287/914384/898709/915065/915340):
We have now twice had an incident where the same SQL Server has stopped responding. The only workaround is to restart the SQL Service. After this occurs, the log is filled with the following messages:
2007-09-10 16:42:14.29 spid3 Process ID 197:320 owns resources that are blocking processes on Scheduler 1.
2007-09-10 16:42:14.31 spid3 Process ID 74:324 owns resources that are blocking processes on Scheduler 5.
We haven't been able to pinpoint a cause or reporduce the problem on a dev server. I've seen several posts about this issue online but not many answers. Does anyone have any advice on how to troubleshoot this issue?
Hi, I want to achieve the following. Please let me know if it is possible or not. If not reasons.
There are 2 servers A and B. Server B has one service and queue available and some data is available in the queue. The data in the queue is online and being received by some other database. Now I want to access the data in the queue in server B from a service which is residing in Server A.
In short I want to continuosly poll the Queue on Server B from Server A. Please let me know whether this is feasible or not.
How to restrict resources usage based on individual Databases in resource governor?
We have many databases in one instance; I would like to restrict resource usage to each database respectively.
I created 2 pools as pool_login, pool_DBNAME, and 2 workload groups as GroupLogin,GroupDBNAME, and also the classifier function.After setup above, I use following statement to check what sessions are in each group .
Even if there are spids which are accessing database DBNAME, I can’t see that they fall into the group GroupDBNAME and pool pool_DBNAME.
SELECT s.group_id, CAST(g.name as nvarchar(20)), s.session_id, s.login_time, CAST(s.host_name as nvarchar(20)), CAST(s.program_name AS nvarchar(20)) FROM sys.dm_exec_sessions s INNER JOIN sys.dm_resource_governor_workload_groups g ON g.group_id = s.group_id ORDER BY g.name GO
Following is the code to create pool, group,classifier function:
USE master GO; -- Create a resource pool pool_login. CREATE RESOURCE POOL pool_login WITH
[Code] ....
-- Create a workload group to use this pool.
CREATE WORKLOAD GROUP GroupLogin USING pool_login; GO CREATE WORKLOAD GROUP GroupDBNAME USING pool_DBNAME;
[code]....
-- Register the classifier function with Resource Governor.
ALTER RESOURCE GOVERNOR WITH (CLASSIFIER_FUNCTION= dbo.rgclassifier_v1); GO
I have an application that is reading a message from a Service Broker Queue. When I use integrated security with an NT account it works fine. When I use a SQL Server User through Management Studio I can select from the Queue however, when I use this same account through the web app with the SQL Server User, I cannot see the Queue. Is there a grant that I must do to this account to get it to see the Service Broker Objects?
I am implementing a message queue system in SQL Server 2000. My queue table looks something like this:
[MessageId] [uniqueidentifier] NOT NULL, [MessageType] [uniqueidentifier] NOT NULL, [Status] [tinyint] NOT NULL, [SubmittedTime] [datetime] NOT NULL, [StartTime] [datetime] NOT NULL, [DispatchedTime] [datetime] NULL, [CompletedTime] [datetime] NULL, [MessageData] [image] NULL
This is how I retrieve the next message for processing:
SELECT TOP 1 * FROM [Queue].[MessageQueue] WITH (ROWLOCK, UPDLOCK, READPAST) WHERE [StartTime]=@pStartTime AND [MessageType]=@pMessageType AND [Status]=@pStatus ORDER BY [StartTime]
and mark it as being processed:
UPDATE [Queue].[MessageQueue] SET [Status]=1 WHERE [MessageId]=@pMessageId
After message has been processed I delete it from the queue:
DELETE FROM [Queue].[MessageQueue] WHERE [MessageId]=@pMessageId
All database accesses are transactional with default READ COMMITTED. The problems start when there are a few concurrent accesses: I get deadlocks when retrieving next message. If I do not delete message after processing then there is no deadlock. But this is not what I need.
I played with different isolation levels and locking hints and was able to avoid deadlock using TABLOCKX:
SELECT .... FROM [Queue].[MessageQueue] WITH (TABLOCKX)
But in this case you cannot concurrently retrieve messages which was my goal from the beginning. How do I achieve this?
Years ago, I remember while doing maintenance on a stored procedure seeing a 'Select x, y, z Where 'some value' = 1.
The function of this, I believe was to make the select work but not retrieve any actual values.
I am attempting to use this in an 'Insert Into Select values From' statement. This insert uses multiple selects via unions and I need a final dummy Select statement with no Where criteria.
What I am thinking may not even apply to what I need to do here.
If you recognize something even remotely near what I am trying to get across I would appreciate your sending me the code.
Another solution for me is just inserting one row with a final RecId = 6 and ' ' or 0 values for the other fields into a table but I was hoping this would work.
Example:
Insert Into table Select 1 as RecId, ' ' as field1, field2 From test1 Where field2 = 'CA'
Union Select 2 as RecId, ' ' as field1, field2 From test1 Where field2 = 'NJ'
Union
/*Final Select */
Select 6 as RecId, ' ' as field1, field2 From test1 Where 'some value' = 1'
I had to restore a database in one of the staging servers the other day. However, upon completion, I found out that the service broker queue in the database is not working anymore. The service broker queue error was similiar to this error: The activated proc dbo.procedure_name running on queue database_name.dbo.queue_name output the following: '<error message>.'
Hello everybody, I'm not completly aware of the SQL server 2005 possibilities so I'd need an hints from somebody with a wide knowledge to understand the direction to take!
This is what I have to do.
I insert into a table XML message. the messages are pushed automatically by an application I have no ""control" on and I get several messages "at the same time".
Everytime the message is inserted into the database I need to trasform the XML data into the correspondent relational value and I know already that in some cases it could take a while (1 second can be considered a while..) My worry is that in the moment I process one message I loose the other one inserted after ,,,
There is some tool that helps me to handte the process as I would..
[I originally posted this in the General Tools forum, but perhaps I'll get better response here...]
I am wondering if this is a bug or a (strange) feature: when a SQL Server Agent job step is a CmdExec job (properly configured for owner/proxy, etc), the step is invoked with the proper user credentials (of the 'Run As' account); HOWEVER, the job step doesn't ever seem to be logged in and thus the step does not pick up the critical local group membership(s) such as BATCH (my preference) or SERVICE, etc. Provided that the command consists solely of built-ins or specifically-permissioned executable invocations (permissioned to the specific 'Run as' account), all is well. However, if the command attempts to invoke general OS exe's (cmd.exe as a sub-shell, whoami, ftp, etc -- anything that is generally permissioned via a local group such as BATCH or SERVICE), such invocations fail with access denied. Specifying a CmdExec step with 'whoami /all' as the command demonstrates the missing group memberships.
(The only workaround seems to be to either crawl through the OS exes and assign permissions, or to grant administrator membership to the proxy credentials account.)
So, design feature or major annoyance?
[Additional info I left out: SS05 (same behavior on SP2 and SP1); on WS03R2-x64; in an Active Directory domain; 'Run as' account granted log on as service, log on as batch, etc.]
We have a server running Windows Server 2003 with SQL Server 2005, it also does some minor file-sharing usage. I noticed that the over 3/4 of our 2GB of RAM was being used by SQL and the pagefile was over 1.5GB constantly. Needless to say this caused performance issues, so I upgraded to 4 GB of RAM. However it would seem that nothing has changed. The same amount of RAM is being committed to SQL resulting in the same size pagefile and 2GB of unused memory. Should my Windows Processor Scheduling and Memory Usage be set to Programs or Background Services/System Cache for best performance and best usage of memory with SQL server? Also when I look at the MS SQL server properties, what should these settings be for best performance and memory usage as they are currently set to: NOT use AWE to allocate memory 0MB - minimum server memory 2147483647MB - maximum server memory 0KB - Index creation memory 1024KB - minimum memory per query
Any help with this problem would be greatly appreciated.
