Is there any Best Practice, 3rd Party Tool for Automating SQL Server Patching for around 10000+ SQL instances.
It is very difficult to do the same manually because each server will consume atleast 1-2 hours and if this is completely done manually then n number of people might be required for accomplishing this task which doesn't looks feasible at all.
I am currently reviewing what patch levels various instances are at. One that have come across is a Windows Internal Database (WID), version 11.0.2100.0 (SQL Server 2012 RTM), which is being used for WSUS.
I was thinking about bringing this up to SP 2. I had thought that WID was patched as part of the operating system, not with the SQL Server Service Pack installer. But I have been Googling it, and I cannot find any references to say one way or the other how it is serviced. Does WID is upgraded using the standard Service Pack? Or is there some WSUS magic?
My customer asks to install three instances of SSAS on a single physical windows server. Is it possible?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI am in the process of writing a generic PowerShell script (that executes T-SQL statements) to copy all or some databases from one SQL Server 2012 SP2 instance to a second instance that runs SQL Server 2012 SP2 or higher. The script is designed to be used on demand, and part of its execution will involve reconciling the logins between the source and destination instances.
I am looking for a reliable way to reconcile the logins between the instances in a somewhat repetitive (i.e., "on demand") fashion. There is no SSIS in the environment; so the SSIS transfer logins task to not available to me.
I was told that if I wanted to setup mirroring between multiple instance on the same server that each endpoint had to be different number. Is that true? Or can I use the default 5022 for each instance?
Ex.
Server1Instance1
Use endpoint 5022
Server1Instance2
Use endpoint 5022
VS
Server1Instance1
Use endpoint 5022
Server1Instance2
Use endpoint 5023
i want to run a transaction across mulitpule instences of sqlserver with out linked server.
distributed trnasaction can do it with link server , can it do it with out linked server.
I am currently having publisher(database A), subscriber (database B) and distributor on the same instance for a test environment that is using a uni directional transactional replication. Now I need to setup another unidirectional transactional replication in the same test instance but for a different database. Publisher database is D and subcsirber database is E.
View 4 Replies View RelatedI nabbed a couple from some recent installs I did, and, assuming I can get my SAN guy to always give drives the same letter assignment, it looks fairly useful.
There's still a bunch of additional stuff to do, like turn on instant file initialization, size/create additional tempdb files, and set up alerts and database mail, etc.
Can the configuration file be expanded to handle any of that? Do you use something else to template/automate your SQL installs? The more I do it, the less I want to keep doing it.
One of my varchar columns in a table has multiple key words enclosed in a pattern of special characters.
Eg: William Shakespeare was an English [##poet##], [##playwright##], and [##actor##], widely regarded as the greatest [##writer##] in the English language and the world's pre-eminent [##dramatist##]. He is often called England's national [##poet##] and the "Bard of Avon". His extant works, including some collaborations, consist of about 38 plays, 154 [##sonnets##], two long narrative [##poems##], and a few other [##verses##], of which the authorship of some is uncertain. His plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed more often than those of any other [##playwright##].
I need to write to query to find all distinct key words that are enclosed within [## and ##]. My query should yield the following results from the string in the example above
[##actor##]
[##dramatist##]
[##playwright##] -- 2 occurrances, but I need it only once in my result set
[##poems##]
[##poet##] -- 2 occurrances, but I need it only once in my result set
[##sonnets##]
[##verses##]
[##writer##]
I need to run this on a large table, so I am looking for the best possible way to minimize any performance issues.
Just give you sample code, I have provided below 2 separate snippets, one with table variable and another with temp table.
DECLARE @MyTable TABLE (MyString VARCHAR (8000))
INSERT @MyTable VALUES ('William Shakespeare was an English [##poet##], [##playwright##], and [##actor##], widely regarded as the greatest [##writer##] in the English language and the world''s pre-eminent [##dramatist##]. He is often called England''s national [##poet##] and the "Bard of Avon". His extant works, including some collaborations, consist of about 38 plays, 154 [##sonnets##], two long narrative [##poems##], and a few other [##verses##], of which the authorship of some is uncertain.
[code].....
When I am in Visual Studio 2005, and I try to add an SQL database, I get the following error "generating user instances in sql server is disabled. use sp_configure user instances enabled to generate user instances." I am currently using SQL server 2005 Express. What do I need to do, to create an SQL database? Thanks in advance.
View 4 Replies View RelatedI am going to apply SQL ServicePack 3 in our production Server . Is it possible to avoid restart ?
View 2 Replies View RelatedHow to update the windows patch on sql server where the server is configured in always on ?
View 4 Replies View RelatedHi allI just ranUPDATE dbo.tbl_forecastedSET update_ref = 0but it only updated the first 10000 records. I'm wondering if anyone cantell me why this is, and can I get around it.I have looked on google and found a few references, but nothing in too muchdetailsthanks in advanceAndy
View 2 Replies View RelatedIs the correct procedure for SUS patches to a server running SQL Server 2005, to set the client to download only and then manually shutdown SQL Server, apply patches, reboot, and restart SQL Server?
Do SQL Server 2005 patches download through SUS or is it manual SP only, except for hotfixes?
Thanks, Tom
I had a server with SQL Server 7.0
I installed a named instance of SQL Server 2000 and then i passed all my DB
of the 7.0 instance to the 2000 instance.
Then i removed the 7.0 instance, that was the default instance.
So at the moment there is only the 2000 version, but it isn't the default
instance
Can the 2000 instance become the default instance? (So that clients can
connect to it simply through computer name, and not creating an alias)
thanks
Fede
My issue is that: here have two datamirror servers, and when the first fail, mirror needs to assume with the same name.
I'll try explain: SD01 - Primary, SD02 - mirror. If SD01 fails, SD02 assumes called SD01. By the way, the instances are in same domain, but not in same computer.
Is it possible for a clustered instance of SQL2012 to have 2 network names ?
Reason: I need to segregate admin access to a clustered instance so that the admins and SSMS connect via a different IP address than the application. I know I can block SSMS access via application-level firewalls, but ideally the application would connect to CLUSTER1INSTANCE01 on , say, 10.192.5.5, and the admins would connect to CLUSTER1ADMININSTANCE01 on 172.168.2.2, and they'd be the same instance, just using different names and IPs
I am using robocopy to copy my sql server backups to a fileshare. This is working great except for named instances.I use Ola Hallegren's backups which create a folder called xxxx$xxxx. Robocopy can't seem to handle the $.
View 9 Replies View RelatedI am using sql2012 with partitiondb custom installation over 6 dbs on 4 servers, ~200GB per db. I am looking for the perfect graphic tool (similar to Perfmon+Activity Monitor) where I can monitor a wide-scope SQL environment. I am interested in data / log / table / index growth, buffer cache hit ratio, average wait time, physical/logical reads/writes and such. I am interested in real-time / time-range metrics. I know I can issue immediate queries against dm_os_performance_counters / dm_os_buffer_descriptors / dm_exec_query_stats and get some of the relevant data, but is this the only way?Also, for your opinnion, what are the most crucial metrics to monitor when dealing with multiple dbs?
View 1 Replies View RelatedNative backups to NAS do not complete.We have been experiencing an issue whereby our native backups are hanging with status': SUSPENDED/ RUNNABLE...I ran select * from sys.sysprocesses. All of the backup SPIDs processes show BACKUPTHREAD/PREEMPTIVE_OS_FILEOPS
This first occurred last Wednesday evening. When I discovered this on Thursday, I attempted to kill the backup jobs. This also hung with 0% completed/0% time remaining. Backups hung on more than one instance.That evening, I attempted to restart the instance which also failed with something along the lines of: could not start MASTER file in use.
I then restarted the server--which I really did not want to do--and this cleared it. I was also able to manually kick off maintenance plans (DBCC CHECKDB and full backup) without issue.I was off Friday and the weekend. I came in this morning and found the maintenance plans (diff/tlog backups) did not complete in some of the instances--in one case, the instance affected now was not affected before. They appeared to have hung on their next scheduled kickoff which was later that night after I went home
Remembering the "file in use" error, I have run process monitor to see if anything unusual had a lock on any files. I saw only SQL Server and Double-Take processes accessing log files.Being a relatively new DBA, I am user where to go next in trying to track down the cause of this issue. This is fairly urgent as one of the instances that has had this problem both times is our production SharePoint environment.
ENVIRONMENT:
SQL version:
Microsoft SQL Server 2012 (SP1) - 11.0.3368.0 (X64)
May 22 2013 17:10:44
Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation
Enterprise Edition: Core-based Licensing (64-bit) on Windows NT 6.2 <X64> (Build 9200: )
We have 5 instances on our clients old machine with SQL 2005, now they want us to move on cluster environment with SQL 2012.
Once I have installed and configured SQL cluster with single instance, but how to install SQL Cluster environment for Multiple instances.
Should I install all the instances first and than have to configure cluster ?
OR
Is there any way that first I will install cluster and than we can add the instances ?
What I have- Sql server 2012 (Standard Ed) Cluster on Windows 2012 R2 with both instances running on the same node- just to save on License, i.e. technically it’s Act/Pas cluster.
What I am looking for- how to configure cluster (e.g. via quorum, etc) to force both instances failed together? Means if for some reason 1-st instance will fail to node 2 another instance should follow (otherwise it will be Act/Act cluster and 2-nd license is required).
If there is no standard way (cluster configuration I mean) to do it I should create some custom process to monitor where each instance is running.
Curious what the industry standard is combining multiple instances on single server ?
Right now i have separate servers for OLTP, SSAS, and SSIS, and for OTP have Development, Test, and production environments. Im considering combining the SSIS and SSAS services into additional instances on each environment servers.
Now (Production)
OLTP
SSAS
SSIS
After
1 Server with 3 separate instances for SSAS, SSIS, OLTP. Then replicate this model through the environments to utilize development and testing.
I'm reading up on Always on and I am confused what is the difference between AlwaysOn Availability Groups and AlwaysOn Failover Cluster Instances.
View 3 Replies View RelatedIt is an active passive cluster which doesn’t allow any testing. All instances have to be failed over together, we aren’t allowed to just failover 1 even for testing purposes. Node 1 is the active node and we can failover to node 2 for 30 days free of charge but services have to then be failed back.
We need to run the cluster with node 1 as the primary node always and 2 just use for failover testing or for less than 30 day periods whilst performing cluster patch upgrades etc.
Now l am sure we could fail over 1 instances at a time for testing and diagnosing issues plus if add a new instance that's not production to get to the platform level as the rest of the instances this would avoid taking production down in the fail over process.
We are just finishing our migration to SQL 2012. In our old environment, the instance which held our SharePoint databases also served other applications. We did not experience any performance related issues in the past due to this.
SharePoint basically requires MAXDOP to be 1, which is correct on the old server. Since this configuration may not be ideal for other applications that may be put within our environment, we our entertaining the idea of isolating SharePoint into its own instance, probably on the same box.
My manager wants me to come up with performance trace data to better prove that we need to go this route since we apparently have had issues in the past by blindly following Microsoft's best practices.
1.MAXDOP configuration - I understand this may be a 2 pronged approach that would require looking at various execution plans and CPU related counters in Perfmon. SharePoint likely requires a maxdop of 1 due to the nature of the application (lots of concurrent processes). What is the best way to show this need graphically?
2. Memory configuration for multiple instances - Does the Total Server Memory reveal all the memory that a given SQL instance is utilizing? Should I use this counter to identify appropriate min/max memory configurations for multiple instances on a single cluster?
The problem with the perfmon approach is that it's scope is limited to just the server. Since our SharePoint environment is currently being shared with other applications, I understand that I may have to utilize DMV statistics to narrow down my analysis.
I have a package on the default instance which runs and completes successfully. When that package is moved to the same SQL server, but a different instance, running under the same service account, it fails. The error is below with some specific stuff removed:
Delete Data from Level 1:Error: Executing the query "-- Variable to capture FileID's
DECLARE @DeleteFil..." failed with the following error: "The DELETE permission was denied on the object '[name removed]', database '[]', schema '[]'.". Possible failure reasons:
Problems with the query, "ResultSet" property not set correctly, parameters not set correctly, or connection not established correctly.
This makes me think that the package under the non-default instance ends up running under a different security context.
I have to count the number of instances of each word in the Comments column throughout the table using SQL Server. Eg:
Row# Comments
1 I like working on SQL
2 I enjoy sleeping and like watching TV
So the output should be :
Word Count
I 2
like 2
working 1
on 1
SQL 1
.......
Any way to get this count using MS SQL?
Hi all,
when I tried to integrate SP1 into my install media (32bit Developer Edition) by using
msiexec /i sqlrun_sql.msi shortfilename=true /p sqlrun_sql.msp
using the msp from an extracted SP1 full web download I ended up with a modified msi file. But installing from this one I received an error:
"sysdbupg.sql.<some_guid> was not found in Sql.CAB"
Any ideas how to fix that?
With best regards,
Artus
Hi would anyone advise if i'll need to patch a new instance to service pack 2 if the rest of my instances on the same machine are already at service pack 2 patch level?
Also can i apply service pack 2 without installing service pack 1 first?
Thks for any info
We're trying to put a view of data maintained in desktop Access databases online and into SQL Server.The desktop Access system uses separate databases instead of tables within one database, It's a strange design, but it can't be changed.We have been importing all of the separate databases into a single, new Access database, then upsizing the new databse to SQL Server, then uploading it.This is not going to work long term, because we are stuck with a 250 mB Access database to upsize and upload, when we never need to update more than 2 or 3 of the tables and upload more than 2 mB.We'd like to be able to upload only the tables -- preferably the Access *.mdb's -- that have changed, and then replace the SQL Server tables with the new information. And we'd like to automate it as much as possible, without upsizing Wizardy.I don't know where to even begin looking for information about how this might be done.Any suggestions would be deeply appreciated.- Tinker
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View 3 Replies View RelatedAfter patching SQL2005 SP2, an unhandled exception occurred in RSConfigTool.exe.
The error message:
Unhandled exception has occurred in your application. If you click Continue, the application will ignore this error and attempt to continue. If you click Quit, the application will close immediately.
Not found.
Is this a known issue? Thanks.
See the end of this message for details on invoking
just-in-time (JIT) debugging instead of this dialog box.
************** Exception Text **************
System.Management.ManagementException: Not found
at System.Management.ManagementException.ThrowWithExtendedInfo(ManagementStatus errorCode)
at System.Management.PropertyData.RefreshPropertyInfo()
at System.Management.PropertyDataCollection.get_Item(String propertyName)
at System.Management.ManagementBaseObject.GetPropertyValue(String propertyName)
at System.Management.ManagementBaseObject.get_Item(String propertyName)
at ReportServicesConfigUI.WMIProvider.RSReportServerAdmin.get_IsSharePointIntegrated()
at ReportServicesConfigUI.ConfigurationManager.ResetStepStatus()
at ReportServicesConfigUI.ConfigurationManager.ChangeMachine()
at ReportServicesConfigUI.ConfigurationManager.LaunchDialog()
at ReportServicesConfigUI.ConfigurationManager.tsbConnect_Click(Object sender, EventArgs e)
at System.Windows.Forms.ToolStripItem.RaiseEvent(Object key, EventArgs e)
at System.Windows.Forms.ToolStripButton.OnClick(EventArgs e)
at System.Windows.Forms.ToolStripItem.HandleClick(EventArgs e)
at System.Windows.Forms.ToolStripItem.HandleMouseUp(MouseEventArgs e)
at System.Windows.Forms.ToolStripItem.FireEventInteractive(EventArgs e, ToolStripItemEventType met)
at System.Windows.Forms.ToolStripItem.FireEvent(EventArgs e, ToolStripItemEventType met)
at System.Windows.Forms.ToolStrip.OnMouseUp(MouseEventArgs mea)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WmMouseUp(Message& m, MouseButtons button, Int32 clicks)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WndProc(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.ScrollableControl.WndProc(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.ToolStrip.WndProc(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.ControlNativeWindow.OnMessage(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.ControlNativeWindow.WndProc(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.NativeWindow.Callback(IntPtr hWnd, Int32 msg, IntPtr wparam, IntPtr lparam)
************** Loaded Assemblies **************
mscorlib
Assembly Version: 2.0.0.0
Win32 Version: 2.0.50727.42 (RTM.050727-4200)
CodeBase: file:///C:/WINDOWS/Microsoft.NET/Framework/v2.0.50727/mscorlib.dll
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RSConfigTool
Assembly Version: 9.0.242.0
Win32 Version: 9.00.3042.00
CodeBase: file:///C:/Program%20Files/Microsoft%20SQL%20Server/90/Tools/binn/RSConfigTool.exe
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System.Windows.Forms
Assembly Version: 2.0.0.0
Win32 Version: 2.0.50727.42 (RTM.050727-4200)
CodeBase: file:///C:/WINDOWS/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System.Windows.Forms/2.0.0.0__b77a5c561934e089/System.Windows.Forms.dll
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System
Assembly Version: 2.0.0.0
Win32 Version: 2.0.50727.42 (RTM.050727-4200)
CodeBase: file:///C:/WINDOWS/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System/2.0.0.0__b77a5c561934e089/System.dll
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System.Drawing
Assembly Version: 2.0.0.0
Win32 Version: 2.0.50727.42 (RTM.050727-4200)
CodeBase: file:///C:/WINDOWS/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System.Drawing/2.0.0.0__b03f5f7f11d50a3a/System.Drawing.dll
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System.Xml
Assembly Version: 2.0.0.0
Win32 Version: 2.0.50727.42 (RTM.050727-4200)
CodeBase: file:///C:/WINDOWS/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System.Xml/2.0.0.0__b77a5c561934e089/System.Xml.dll
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System.Management
Assembly Version: 2.0.0.0
Win32 Version: 2.0.50727.42 (RTM.050727-4200)
CodeBase: file:///C:/WINDOWS/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System.Management/2.0.0.0__b03f5f7f11d50a3a/System.Management.dll
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System.ServiceProcess
Assembly Version: 2.0.0.0
Win32 Version: 2.0.50727.42 (RTM.050727-4200)
CodeBase: file:///C:/WINDOWS/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System.ServiceProcess/2.0.0.0__b03f5f7f11d50a3a/System.ServiceProcess.dll
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System.DirectoryServices
Assembly Version: 2.0.0.0
Win32 Version: 2.0.50727.42 (RTM.050727-4200)
CodeBase: file:///C:/WINDOWS/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System.DirectoryServices/2.0.0.0__b03f5f7f11d50a3a/System.DirectoryServices.dll
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System.Data
Assembly Version: 2.0.0.0
Win32 Version: 2.0.50727.42 (RTM.050727-4200)
CodeBase: file:///C:/WINDOWS/assembly/GAC_32/System.Data/2.0.0.0__b77a5c561934e089/System.Data.dll
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System.Configuration
Assembly Version: 2.0.0.0
Win32 Version: 2.0.50727.42 (RTM.050727-4200)
CodeBase: file:///C:/WINDOWS/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System.Configuration/2.0.0.0__b03f5f7f11d50a3a/System.Configuration.dll
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System.Transactions
Assembly Version: 2.0.0.0
Win32 Version: 2.0.50727.42 (RTM.050727-4200)
CodeBase: file:///C:/WINDOWS/assembly/GAC_32/System.Transactions/2.0.0.0__b77a5c561934e089/System.Transactions.dll
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System.EnterpriseServices
Assembly Version: 2.0.0.0
Win32 Version: 2.0.50727.42 (RTM.050727-4200)
CodeBase: file:///C:/WINDOWS/assembly/GAC_32/System.EnterpriseServices/2.0.0.0__b03f5f7f11d50a3a/System.EnterpriseServices.dll
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Accessibility
Assembly Version: 2.0.0.0
Win32 Version: 2.0.50727.42 (RTM.050727-4200)
CodeBase: file:///C:/WINDOWS/assembly/GAC_MSIL/Accessibility/2.0.0.0__b03f5f7f11d50a3a/Accessibility.dll
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To enable just-in-time (JIT) debugging, the .config file for this
application or computer (machine.config) must have the
jitDebugging value set in the system.windows.forms section.
The application must also be compiled with debugging
enabled.
For example:
<configuration>
<system.windows.forms jitDebugging="true" />
</configuration>
When JIT debugging is enabled, any unhandled exception
will be sent to the JIT debugger registered on the computer
rather than be handled by this dialog box.