SQL Server Admin 2014 :: Does DBCC LOGINFO Require SysAdmin Rights
Sep 28, 2015DBCC LogInfo command require SysAdmin rights?
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Should A Sysadmin Have Local Admin Rights On Server?
Apr 27, 2006Hi,
The company I work for outsources all its non-development IT. So all windows servers are administered by an outside company. Lately we have purchased SQL Server 2005, along with a dedicated Windows Server 2003 server. I am the sole administrator of this SQL Server, and so have sysadmin rights. However because the outside company is responsible for all windows servers, they are very reluctant to grant me local administrator rights on the server. This has been causing problems, partly because I have to go through them for many simple requests (such as moving database files, or changing SQL Server configuration files), and partly because certain functionality doesn't seem to work for non-administrators (such as the use of Database Mail and full access to Reporting Services).
I want to challenge the decision and gain local admin rights to the server. Would anyone have further reasons why a sysadmin should also have local admin rights? Is this common practice, or are sysadmins often denied admin access to the server?
Any thoughts would be appreciated.
Thanks, Matt
Dbcc Loginfo
Apr 28, 2008According to this article: http://www.sqlskills.com/blogs/kimberly/2005/06/25/8StepsToBetterTransactionLogThroughput.aspx
8) Check/fix your internal fragmentation. OK, so this is the one that really helped the customer in Turkey. Often, when transaction logs are not pre-allocated and/or when there's been a lot of autogrowths, the transaction log can become internally fragmented. Internally your transaction logs are broken down into smaller more granular chunks called VLFs (Virtual Log Files). The size and number of VLFs you'll have depends largely on the size that the chunk is when it's added to you transaction log. If you add a new chunk to the transaction log which is 20MB (through autogrowth or through manual growth) then the number of VLFs that are added is 4. If you add a chunk which is greater than 64MB but less than or equal to 1GB, you'll add 8 VLFs. If you add more than 1GB then you'll add 16VLFs. In general, most transaction logs will only have 20 or 30 VLFs - even 50 could be reasonable depending on the total size of the transaction log. However, in many cases what happens is that excessive autogrowths can cause an excessive number of VLFs to be added - sometimes resulting in hundreds of VLFs. Having an excessive number of VLFs can negatively impact all transaction log related activities and you may even see degradation in performance when transaction log backups occur. To see how many VLFs you have solely look at the number of rows returned by DBCC LOGINFO. The number of rows returned equals the number of VLFs your transaction log file has. If you have more than 50, I would recommend fixing it and adjusting your autogrowth so that it doesn't occur as fequently.
How much of an affect does the # of VLFs really have on a DB system? Specifically, # of VLFs for tempdb. Run DBCC LOGINFO on your DBs and tempdb, and post the # of rows returned. On my side, tempdb has 482 VLFs.
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Creating SSIS Package SQL Server Agent Job Without Sysadmin Rights
Mar 12, 2008Hi
I have a problem i receive the following error message when i try to add an new step into a SQL Server Agent job :
Failed to retrieve data for this request. (Microsoft.SqlServer.SmoEnum)
Additional information:
An exception occured while executing a Transact-SQL statement or batch.
(Microsoft.SqlServer.ConnectionInfo)
The current transaction cannot be committed and cannot support operations that write to the log file. Roll back the transaction
The current transaction cannot be committed and cannot support operations that write to the log file. Roll back the transaction
The current transaction cannot be committed and cannot support operations that write to the log file. Roll back the transaction
The current transaction cannot be committed and cannot support operations that write to the log file. Roll back the transaction
The current transaction cannot be committed and cannot support operations that write to the log file. Roll back the transaction
The current transaction cannot be committed and cannot support operations that write to the log file. Roll back the transaction
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The current transaction cannot be committed and cannot support operations that write to the log file. Roll back the transaction
The current transaction cannot be committed and cannot support operations that write to the log file. Roll back the transaction
The current transaction cannot be committed and cannot support operations that write to the log file. Roll back the transaction.(Microsoft SQL Server, Error: 3930)
This error pops up right after i change the type of the step to "SQL Server Intergration Services Package"
I have made the following configurations:
The user group (windows group) that the user belongs has the following roles in msdb :
db_dtsadmin
db_dtsltuser
db_dtsoperator
SQLAgentOperatorRole
SQLAgentReaderRole
SQLAgentUserRole
i have made a proxy to sql server agent which has the following subsystems :
"SQL Server Integration Services Provider" the proxy is tied to the same login which has those SQLagent and dts roles in msdb database.
Im using windows authentication and the user that logs into the sql server is in the same group that i have set all of the rights.
Ps. Clearly im missing some role or right somewhere because as soon as i give the group sysadmin role then all the users in that group can create SSIS steps in the agent.
Ps. Ps. I have been living under the impression that i dont have to give sysadmin rights to people that create ssis packages and schedule then with the agent.
I Need To Give DBA Full Admin Rights To SQL 2005 Without OS Windows Rights, Can Anyone Help Please!!
Jul 12, 2007The DBA at our location is demanding local admin (windows) right's to the box so he can function. Right now when he logs in i have given him right's to the inetpub directory, sql directory, i have set him as a sysadmin on sql2005 and gone into the http:\localhost
eports and set him up as a system manager and under site priveledges set him as a sys admin. When he tries to login and configure the report server he gets the following error:
Title-Reporting services configuration manager
Error-There was an error refreshing the UI. bla bla bla
A WMI error has occurred and no additional error information is availiable
Title-Reporting services configuration manager
Error-There was an error while switching panels. The most likely cause is an error retrieving WMI properties. bla bla bla
A WMI error has occurred and no additional error information is availiable
then when he's in sql server 2005 surface area configuation
Title-Surface Area Configuration
Error-Access denied (system.management)
Is there any documentation or anythign anyone can tell me that i can do to give this DBA full access to configure and admin the SQL portion of his system without giving him admin rights to the OS???
Please help!!
Thanks for any time anyone has taken to review this thread!!
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I thought I could create a user/certificate and add the signature to sp_readerrorlog but it's not permitted (likely because it's not a normal database object).
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Setting Admin Rights To Report Manager, SQL Server Express 2005 On Vista Business
Mar 7, 2007Hi all,
I'm a newbie to Reporting Services so please forgive my ignorance...
I've recently installed SQL Server Express 2005 with Reporting Services on my Vista Business Notebook (with no network connections) and have installed VS C# Express as well as the Business Intelligence Studio to create reports.
My C# application can connect to SQL Server fine, however, the reports I created with Business Studio refuses to deploy to the server due to the following reason:
"The permissions granted to user 'localhostJenny' are insufficient for
performing this operation".
I find this odd as I've been able to deploy reports on my other Windows XP machine (with SQL Server Express) no probs at all. Additionally, I cannot see the 'Site settings' link within Report Manager (Web) that I'd normally get with an admin account (i.e. on my Win. XP machine). Various sources indicate that my account has insufficient access rights to view this.
Having browsed through seemingly endless blogs and forums, I suspect that my local account has not been configured to access the Report Manager web client to publish, manage and administer the site.
I have tried the surface area tool for SQL Server, but I suspect that this is relevant only to SQL Server DB access and management. Adding an administrator here does nothing.
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Oct 2, 2007Hi,
Re: SQL Server 2005
We have defined a local administrator to be the SQL Server and SQL Server Agent services user, and is also the job step owner for some SSIS packages I am running.
My question is, isn't by default a local administrator ALSO granted sysadmin in SQL Server? According to this link, it seems to imply this:
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms143504.aspx
However, I am having some permissions problems with the local adminstrator account (i.e. SQL Server agent account) when it runs the job. The error is that it doesn't have execute permissions on sp_dts_addlogentry.
How can this be, if it's granted sysadmin?
Thanks
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Aug 22, 2007Thanks in advance for help.
Could someone please help me for SWL backup restoration and db by user
I restored SQL 7.0 database to SQL 2000. ( by creating empty db on SQL 2000 and restored from SQL 7 backup) -- restore ok..
I need to use same SQL user which is admin for DB on SQL 7, for SQL 2000 also. ( DB user is sql user not domain user)
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pic a:
pic b:
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pic 2:
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