SQL 2012 :: TEMPDB High Avg Write Wait Time On Data Files
Apr 15, 2014
I am currently investigating aa high avg write time ms issue (145ms) which seems to be only occuring on the tempdb data files.I have followed the recommended setup of TEMPDB in that
1. Data files = number of physical cores
2. Data files and logfiles are on separate partitions away from the other databases.
3. Tempdb is presized and no incremental file increases look like they are happening with frequency.
We have sharepoint 2012 setup on other sql servers and with TEMPDB setup following the same guidelines, with far more Sharepoint activity on a similary specified hardware which is why its confusing.FileIO auditing on the partitions themselves shows that the FileIO is very fast on the partitions that the tempdb data file which leads me to beleive that Sharepoint may be the culprit perhaps due to excess use of tempdb with operations taking a long time to resolve.
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Mar 3, 2015
I'm having an argument with our infrastructure architect who has just gone and bought lots of SSD drives to use for our tempdb data and log files, sounds great doesn't it? There is a catch though, his plan is to add the disks to the two available slots in each blade in a RAID0+1 configuration, effectively giving you one usable drive, and adding both data and log files on to one disk.
I then pointed out that SQL Server best practice is to host tempdb data and log files on two separate drive to reduce contention. The architect then basically said that because this isn't spinning disk the issue of drive, r/w contention isn't an issue I don't agree with this and wanted to get some opinions from the community, I'm still advising that two separate disks should be used but someone just went and spent £80k ($150k) on SSDs and doesn't want to back down...
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Jan 9, 2015
I proposed on a new server that we separate Data Files, Log Files, tempDB, Backups, etc. onto separate LUNS on a SAN with High Speed Solid State Drives.I was told that with the new technology with solid state SAN's that it would decrease performance and that it did not work the same way as it did when you had RAID 5's etc.I thought that if things were cared out correctly by a SAN Administrator they would know how to configure for optimal performance.
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May 21, 2015
So we have new servers that are going to be installed with SQL 2012 and I'm debating the wisdom of splitting tempdb with multiple files.
I know it's a myth that performance automatically improves if you split it into a number of files based on processors, but I'm debating the wisdom of putting a file on each of my data / log file drives.
For instance, I have a server with a C: drive (OS), D: drive (Data for system DBs and install of programs - 458 GB), an F: drive for user DB data files (767 GB), and a J: drive for log files (255 GB).
Obviously no files are going on C:. I'm debating on whether or not we should even leave system DBs on the D: drive given in our current 2k8 servers, we end up with Memory.dmp files over flowing the D: drives as well as .cabs and other install / update files that tend to collect on that drive over the years.
But if we leave the system DBs on D:, I'm wondering if adding a second tempdb file to F: and a third to J: will improve query performance or not.
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Aug 13, 2014
I have a tempdb split into 4 files (5 if you include the log).
Autogrowth is disabled on the mdf/ndf files so that they can be used round robin (1 file per logical CPU).
Is there a way to be alerted when there is x% of free space left?
I know hwo to check the free space via t-sql but want to be able to be alerted. I could run a sql job that reports the free space and send a database mail message if under x% but wondered if there was a built in (or better) method?
I also have SQL Sentry.
SQL 2012 Standard
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Feb 23, 2015
I was in the process of creating additional TempDB.ndf files, and received an error saying they already exist. I checked the location and it was empty, nothing to see here. So I looked in sys.master_files and there are several tempdb files listed in various locations, all of which come up empty.
So the files are listed as online in sys.master_files, but they do not exist on the server. I restarted SQL services but it did not change anything.
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Mar 17, 2014
I am testing out a blank database created over two physical files on two separate disks with one table called data which has one column called values nvarchar(max).
I filled the table up with a whole load of data and ran a select * against it. If I run Permon at the same time I can see that the read load has been spread over multiple disks as each of these disks is getting read from in parallel. If I create the same database on a single file and run the same select * again it takes much longer, proving that the read load has been distributed across multiple disks.
Now moving onto writes, this is where the confusion lies. I understand that SQL server fills files evenly until they need growing, after which it will then fill files individually until they are full in a round robin fashion unless you have trace 1117 turned on. What I don't understand is why the writes aren't distributed out whilst it is filling these file groups.
I ran an continual insert into my table with go 1000000 to monitor how the files are being filled up. I monitored where SQL server was physically placing the files as they were being inserted by running the following query:
;WITH CTE AS
(SELECT
sys.fn_PhysLocFormatter (%%physloc%%) col1,
RIGHT(LEFT(sys.fn_PhysLocFormatter (%%physloc%%),2),1) AS [Physical RID],
DATAID
[Code] ....
I could see that it would a thousand or so records into file 1, then a thousand or so into file 2, then a thousand or so into file 1 etc etc. In another words it would hit one disk, then another disk, then back to disk one to fill the file evenly. Is there any way to make SQL Server distribute the writes out in parallel so that both disks are writing in tandem?
By the looks of it, multiple disks only scale reads, as with writes only one disk is ever written to at once which is annoying. Any way to harness the write power of multiple disks?
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Oct 29, 2015
This is the scenario in my environment
WaitType Wait_Sec Resource_Sec Signal_Sec Wait Count Wait Percentage
WRITELOG920039.89887485.89 32554.00 23446032975.02
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We had someone create an extra data file and log file for tempdb. Sowe currently have two data files and two log files. Is it possible todelete the newly created data and log files? If I just delete thephysical files, I assume they'll get created as soon as SQL Servergets started back up. Any help would be great, since a single dataand log file for tempdb is my goal.Thanks much.sean
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I'm running this procedure which insert into table_name(id, name.....) select id, name.... from table_name. For some reason the tempdb data file grow up to 200GB. The tempdb is set to expand unrestricted by 10%. How can I prevent that from hapening? Thanks.
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are there any tasks in SSIS that watches a folder and waits for incoming files?
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Mar 30, 2014
It is possible that Data Collection can cause massive increasing MB/sec to tempdb ? I cannot find connection with tempdb and I set cash file, but on same disk.
Or it can be something different? Last two weeks what I checked was Read/Write MB/s to tempdb increasing progressively.
One time it was about 20MB/sec
After it was reseting and again 1MB/sec..
What I checked , External company which install SQL Server made one file for tempdb, next week or during breaktime(it will be possible), I would like make 8files next weekend work.
Now I saw that TempDB mdf was still increased, but using was just 8-10%
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I'm contemplating a sql server archive strategy that rolls really old data off any sort of dbms and onto low cost media like dvds in a non relational archive format. I dont want to ever worry about these archives spanning different versions of sql when i go to retrieve a range of data that happens to span sql versions (eg one disc was sourced from 2005 another by 2008 but my report needs a union of both).
So I'm thinking about neutral/efficient formats for these archives and a live homegrown catalog that can determine exactly what disc(s) need to be mounted based on passed from and to date parameters...all so that the data that might span discs (and versions and maybe even schemas) can be merged and loaded into my sql version d'jour's "throw away" archive database for a one time report or other unplanned activity.
I remember raw data types being very convenient as an ETL format for our customers who have ssis, but wouldn't want our sqlexpress customers to be left without the archiving capability. Do the "things" that read and write raw data files really originate in some special T-SQL command that all sql editions can use, or is it strictly an ssis thing?
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Jan 6, 2008
I setup a SQL Agent to send me an email when the Average Latch Wait Time is greater than 300ms. Now I receive an email every 15 seconds stating that the current ALWT is 3916ms. That value never changes with the emails. However, the perfmon shows nothing at all (shows zero).
I also have a Buffer cache hit ratio of 2848.00.
These numbers are when there is NOBODY on the DB at all It is just sitting there. When I reboot the server, as soon as SQL starts it starts to send the emails again.
Server: Intel Xeon Quad Core 2.66
RAM: 4GB (with /3GB in the boot.ini)
RAID 1: OS
RAID 1: Data (DB and logs)
CPU Utilization: 0-1%
RAM Utilization: 527MB
OS: Server 2003 R2 With SP2
SQL: 2005 Standard with SP2
How can I determine if the ALWT is really 3916?
I executed 'Select * from sysprocesses where SPID>50 and waittime>0'
Which showed;
BROKER_RECEIVE_WAITFOR
waittime=110640ms
waittype=0x0075
status=suspended
program_name=DatabaseMail90 - Id<3780>
Any assistance is greatly appreciated.
Thank You
Magnum
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Apr 25, 2014
Sample Table
USE [Testing]
GO
/****** Object: Table [dbo].[Testing] Script Date: 4/25/2014 11:08:18 AM ******/
SET ANSI_NULLS ON
GO
SET QUOTED_IDENTIFIER ON
[Code] ....
It seems to work fine with one million records.
Each primary key is unique, but the begindate is non-unique, and i guess even if i use datetime2 and add nanoseconds, from what i have read, there is a chance that i could have a duplicate datetime since the date is imported via XML from multiple sources.
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Average Lock Wait Time(ms)(Critical)
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I have do some benchmark test between the "Principle", "Mirror" and "Witness", things seems normal, the System usage (CPU, Disk Read/Write) on the "Witness" is very small and the CPU usage on Principle and Mirror is similar, However....
For the "Disk Write Bytes/sec", the usage on Principle is 200,000 and the Mirror is 1,500,000, the mirror server is talking about x7 times Disk Write Bytes/sec on the Mirror.
I cannot think of any reason why the Disk Write Bytes /sec is so much higher than the Principle, can somebody help me?
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Hello all,I've got a query which suddently became very slow. It now takes about 10secs instead of 2 secs.I've got to identical DB (one is for test and the other is production). Thequery is slow only in production.When running this query in both DB and looking at execution plan,statistics, etc, the onle difference is the Cumulative wait time on serverreplies.In test DB, I get the value: 2200And in production DB: 1.22344e+009What does this mean concretly? What do I have to do to solve this problem?TIA.YannickPS I'm using SS2000 SP3 on NT4.0
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I am working on a stock price analysis project. Stock prices are stored in SQL Server as tick by tick data (that means in a high frequency) and need to be grouped by minutes in order to display them as as high, low, open and close prices in a candlestick or similar chart.
The fields in the table are:
Time (for every stock price tick)
Price (stock price)
Symbol (of the stock)
A sample time series would look like this:
11:45:01 $22.11 MSFT
11:45:02 $22.10 MSFT
11:45:04 $22.25 MSFT
...
...
...
11:45:58 $22.45 MSFT
11:46:03 $22.22 MSFT
11:46:08 $22.25 MSFT
...
...
...
11:46:59 $22.45 MSFT
The result of the SQL query should be:
Symbol Time Open High Low Close
MSFT 11:45 $22.11 $22.45 $22.10 $22.45
MSFT 11:46 $22.22 $22.45 $22.22 $22.45
This is the SQL statement I came up with but obviously doesn't work:
SELECT DATEPART(Minute,Time), MIN(Price), MAX(Price) FROM dbo.TimeSales WHERE Symbol='MSFT' GROUP BY DATEPART(Minute,Time)
I would appreciate any suggestions.
Thank you!
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[code]....
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ndf -- 3
ndf -- 3
ndf -- 3
ndf -- 3
ndf -- 4
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I am fairly new to servers and have never really set one up myself yet. Forgive me for my lack of knowledge about them.
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Msg 1823, Level 16, State 2, Line 1
A database snapshot cannot be created because it failed to start.
Msg 1823, Level 16, State 8, Line 1
A database snapshot cannot be created because it failed to start.
Msg 5120, Level 16, State 104, Line 1
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Msg 7928, Level 16, State 1, Line 1
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I.e. there is a bug in the Data Collector component that collects data for the Management Data Warehouse: it uses local time instead of UTC. I've created a Connect item to report it to Microsoft.URL...how do you get your process running again? the job will no longer run because it will every 5 minutes keep on trying to upload the conflicting data for the 2nd 2:00 - 3:00 period. I've only found one solution: get rid of all data collected but not yet uploaded.
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Jan 9, 2015
I'm trying to move a log file of a database that is part of an availability group. I have been following steps from the article: [URL]
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I checked to ensure that the dB is looking in the right place for the log file, and it is. It just doesn't seem to actually use the new file. If I start and stop SQL service, the dB comes back up and is fine.
Here are the steps I'm going through and what is happening at each step:
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:Connect DEVSQL --This is currently PRIMARY
USE[master]
GO
ALTER AVAILABILITY GROUP [DP-AG-DEV] MODIFY REPLICA ON N'DEVSQL' WITH (SECONDARY_ROLE(ALLOW_CONNECTIONS = NO))
[Code] ....
All is good so far. Both the Primary and the Secondard have had their logical files changed, which has not taken affect yet because there has been no failover.
--Make SQL10 the PRIMARY
:Connect SQL10
ALTER AVAILABILITY GROUP [DP-AG-DEV] FAILOVER;
GO
SQL10 is now the Primary for this AG. And, as expected, the database [AG-Test] is in "Recovery Pending" because it is now looking for the log file in the new location. I need to move the file to the new location.
:Connect DEVSQL
--Enable XP_CMDSHELL
sp_configure 'show advanced options',1
go
reconfigure
go
sp_configure 'xp_cmdshell',1
[code].....
This is where the script is failing, returning the error:
Msg 1468, Level 16, State 5, Line 5
The operation cannot be performed on database "AG-Test" because it is involved in a database mirroring session or an availability group. Some operations are not allowed on a database that is participating in a database mirroring session or in an availability group.
Msg 5069, Level 16, State 1, Line 5
ALTER DATABASE statement failed.
I can not get the dB to recognize the log file at it's new location.
If I restart the SQL Service, it comes back fine, which seems to indicate to me that it is not a permission problem and confirms that the file is in the right place.
How do I force SQL to look for the log file again without restarting the service?
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SELECT
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--estimated cost
--estimated rows
--nest level
[code]...
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--database name
--estimated cost
--estimated rows
--nest level
--object name
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