I am replacing a production database. Initially I sized a Quad 2.8
GHz with 8 GB of Ram. I will be running Windows 2003 Enterprise
Server with Sql Server 2000 Enterprise. I was wondering what kind of
performance I would (better/worse) get from a Dual 1.5 GHz Itanium
with 8 GB of Ram running the 64 bit versions of Windows 2003 and Sql
Server. Hardware cost are pretty comparable, but I could save on Sql
Server licenses. Anyone that has some experience or has any
documentation that could compare the amount of processing power
between the two architectures. Example: A 1.5 Itanium is comparable
to 2 2.4 Zeons. Any help would be appreciated.
Hi, we work with the Reporting Services of the Itanium Edition of SQL Server 2005. With some reports (only some) we have the problem that very long time is needed for the processing of the report. I checked the ExecutionLog table in my Reportserver database and detected that values in the column TimeDataRetrieval (TDR) or pretty slow, but them in the column TimeProcessing (TP) are very high. Report1: TDR = 8304ms TP = 34377ms . In other (most) reports the values are completely different Report2: TDR 8336ms TP = 233ms
Now the most interesting thing: When I execute the same report on our test server which is a xeon machine (same data volume, no user workload) I get the following results: Report1: TDR = 5244ms TP = 11731ms Report2: TDR = 4750ms TP = 163 The differences in TimeDataRetrieval (TDR) should be ok, because the machine is used by over 700 people and so the response times of the Analysis Server database could differ. Report1 and 2 do not differ too much in complexity. A few groupings, parameters and so on.
The Itanium machine is a 2 way dual core system with 16 Gigabyte RAM. The Xeon machine is a 2 way xeon system with 8 Gigabyte RAM (32bit processors).
What is going on there? How could I optimize the TimeProcessing of Report1 on the Itanium machine? Which performance counters or tools should I use to go deeper finding out where the problem is?
I am working on a project to write SSIS packages to update a SQL Server 2005 database with data from an Oracle 10g database. Unfortunately, our development ETL box is running 32 bit Windows Server 2003 while the production ETL box is running 64 bit Itanium Windows Server 2003. We have created SQL Server Agent jobs to execute all of our packages. All of our jobs run without error on the 32 bit development box, but in our preproduction tests they are failing in the 64 bit box.
In my testing, I've found that I can successfully pull character data from Oracle. For example, I can write a package that retrieves the data for the following query:
SELECT 'test' FROM dual
However, the following fails:
SELECT 1 FROM dual
I have logging turned on in my package. When the package fails, I typically see informational messages in the log up to the point of failure, but no actual error event logs are generated. The only error information I have is in the SQL Server Agent job history log, which contains the following:
Executed as user: SERVERNAMESYSTEM. The return value was unknown. The process exit code was -2147483646. The step failed.
I have also tried using the 64 bit version of the DTS Wizard to create a sample package, and observe the same behavior. When I run the DTS Wizard, queries that return numeric data cause DTSWizard.exe to exit and produce the following message in the application event log:
Event Type: Error Event Source: .NET Runtime 2.0 Error Reporting Event Category: None Event ID: 1000 Date: 2/1/2007 Time: 12:36:13 PM User: N/A Computer: SERVERNAME Description: Faulting application dtswizard.exe, version 9.0.2047.0, stamp 443f5e50, faulting module oracore10.dll, version 10.2.0.1, stamp 435841b0, debug? 0, fault address 0x00000000001e4910.Has anyone else experienced similar behavior, and know of a solution aside of wrapping all retrieval of numeric data in to_chars in our Oracle queries?
We are migration few database from SQL 2000 Enterprise Server to the SQL 2005 Enterprise Server (64 bit-Itanium Server)
Problem :
- The performance difference observer was not much (Just 15-18%)
- The CPU Utilization goes to 100% immediately, when the software login screen appears and it sustains in between 90% to 100%
- Multi-User Access (3 or more concurrent users), the sql performance is tremendously slow.
Steps followed for Migration:
- We have used the backup and restore method to migrate the data from SQL 2000 Enterprise Server to the SQL 2005 Enterprise Server (64 bit-Itanium Server).
- We ran the DBCC DBREINDEX for each affected tables
- We executed the sp_updatestats procedure for all the tables
- Upgraded the DB compatibility version to 90
- Installed the SQL 2005 Enterprise Server (64 bit-Itanium Server) Service pack 2.
One thing that we observed, was the memory usage, on SQL 2000 the sqlservr.exe uses around 1.5 GB where as on the SQL 2005 its just 120 MB.
A normal select query on 2000 Server took 11-12 sec, having 10 lac records, and the same query on 2005 took 1 min (3-5 sec CPU process taken by sqlservr and rest by the Sever Management Studio.
The only differance noted was that on 2000 the entire data was displayed at one go where as in 2005 the data was displayed at the 1st sec, and was filling the rest in the buffer, and to finally display entire data it took 1 min.
Also
when we run this query
select * from sys.dm_os_sys_info
one column os_priority_class shows a value = 32 ? what does this means.
In the MSSQLSERVER SERVICES, properties, there is a parameter displaying value
Advanced > Running Under 64 bit OS = No ? what does this means.
Could anyone pls suggest as to how to increase the sqlservr.exe memory area, and also how the enhance the performance.
how can someone build user defined functions and procedures in c# using Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Professional Edition (SP1) and compile them for the IA64 platform (Itanium)? There is no target platform option "Itanium" in the project's properties (in the Build tab).
We need to pull data from our DB2 system to our Itanium SQL Server.
Is this simply a matter of setting up the 64-bit DB2 Connect drivers on the Itanium box with the exact same DSN name used on ther 32-bit box used to define and deploy the SSIS package?
Has any one done this, yet? If so, is there anything that we need to look our for?
I have an SSIS job that is exiting with an error on a 64 bit Itanium SQL 2005 sp1. It has three parallel streams of execution. I've been running my tests using dtexec with verbose output being sent to a file.
2 of the streams execute several truncates and then are followed by 4 steps that load data from a SQL 2000 server to a SQL 2005 server. One of the job streams sources it's data using a SQL Server username/password while the other sources it's data using integrated security. Both streams use integrated security for the destinations.
The third job truncates 2 tables and then loads those two tables from an Oracle database. The oracle connections use a username/password in a connection string in a configuration database while the SQL side of the connection uses integrated security.
I've validated security is working, I've validated the drivers for Oracle are working in 64 bit mode and 32 bit mode for the connection strings I'm using, and security for the package. To top it off, this package runs to completion in 32bit mode under the same credentials.
The only warning messages I get running in verbose mode are the following warnings from the Oracle connection:
OnWarning,311-SQL-01,CHARLOTTE!lcharlton,Import Employee Locator,{EE2C1DB7-A767-4AE6-81F4-6FAE6BFBD2CF},{DF323107-1ABD-4790-A318-B046862C6F58},10/19/2006 2:24:55 PM,10/19/2006 2:24:55 PM,-2145378202,0x,Cannot retrieve the column code page info from the OLE DB provider. If the component supports the "DefaultCodePage" property, the code page from that property will be used. Change the value of the property if the current string code page values are incorrect. If the component does not support the property, the code page from the component's locale ID will be used.
Any insights into how to troubleshoot this or possible additional steps I could take are warmly welcomed.
While SQL Server installed into our clustered environment with no significant problems Service Pack 2 will not install with the Error "Unable to install Windows Installer MSP file" during the update to the Database Services.
Subsequently, Integration Services, Native Client and Backwards Compatibilty also fail to upgrade due to suspended installs.
Searching for this returns a number of articles none of which match what we are seeing, including:-
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/918357 indicates this is a problem with the Setup Support Files. This is not the case and the Setup Support files are updated. Also the permissions are correct on the folder and files mentioned,
http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=448685&SiteID=1 also point to a problem when installing the Setup Support Files. Our install gets past this but fails on the database engine then sets up a chain of suspended installs.
Other finds indicate there may be another msi running, again this is not the case and the server has been failed over and rebooted a number of times.
At the moment we are sitting at RTM having rebuilt the machine completely but would like to move forward onto SP2. Has anyone come across this and provide any further information or resolution?
We have successfully deployed SP2 onto a number of other servers cover both clustered and non clustered, 32 bit and X64 installations with no problems and now wondering if the problem is Itanium edition specific.
extract from the install log from the failed install. The logs mentioned in this log do not exist post install, in fact the Hotfix folder is not there.
Prerequisites Check & Status SQLSupport: Passed ********************************************************************************** Products Detected Language Level Patch Level Platform Edition Setup Support Files ENU 9.00.1399.06 IA64 Database Services (MSSQLSERVER) ENU RTM 2005.090.1399.00 IA64 ENTERPRISE Integration Services ENU RTM 9.00.1399.00 IA64 ENTERPRISE SQL Server Native Client ENU 9.00.1399.06 IA64 Client Components ENU RTM 9.00.1399.06 IA64 ENTERPRISE MSXML 6.0 Parser ENU 6.00.3883.8 IA64 SQLXML4 ENU 9.00.1399.06 IA64 Backward Compatibility ENU 8.05.1054 IA64 Microsoft SQL Server VSS Writer ENU 9.00.1399.06 IA64 ********************************************************************************** Products Disqualified & Reason Product Reason ********************************************************************************** Processes Locking Files Process Name Feature Type User Name PID ********************************************************************************** Product Installation Status Product : Setup Support Files Product Version (Previous): 1399 Product Version (Final) : 3042 Status : Success Log File : C:Program FilesMicrosoft SQL Server90Setup BootstrapLOGHotfixRedist9_Hotfix_KB921896_SqlSupport.msi.log Error Number : 0 Error Description : ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Product : Database Services (MSSQLSERVER) Product Version (Previous): 1399 Product Version (Final) : Status : Failure Log File : C:Program FilesMicrosoft SQL Server90Setup BootstrapLOGHotfixSQL9_Hotfix_KB921896_sqlrun_sql.msp.log Error Number : 1601 Error Description : Unable to install Windows Installer MSP file ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Product : Integration Services Product Version (Previous): 1399 Product Version (Final) : Status : Failure Log File : C:Program FilesMicrosoft SQL Server90Setup BootstrapLOGHotfixDTS9_Hotfix_KB921896_sqlrun_dts.msp.log Error Number : 1601 Error Description : MSP Error: 1704 An installation for Microsoft SQL Server 2005 (64-bit) is currently suspended. You must undo the changes made by that installation to continue. Do you want to undo those changes?
I'm having an odd issue trying to run an SSIS package on a 64 Bit SQL 2005 SP2 (build 3042) Windows 2003 SP2 64 bit AMD Cluster. I have to use the dtexec cmd line utility from SQL Server Agent because I need to connect to an Access database. When running the package from dtexec, it doesn't seem to be able to load the package, i keep getting this error:
Executed as user: USSI-CORPsql02admin. ...00.3042.00 for 32-bit Copyright (C) Microsoft Corp 1984-2005. All rights reserved. Started: 1:56:00 PM Error: 2008-03-03 13:56:01.28 Code: 0xC0010018 Source: {DFBF51D9-DF81-41B9-9370-9DFC68E28FBA} Description: Error loading value "<DTSropertyExpression xmlnsTS="www.microsoft.com/SqlServer/Dts" DTS:Name="Subject">@[User::vString]</DTSropertyExpression>" from node "DTSropertyExpression". End Error Error: 2008-03-03 13:56:01.28 Code: 0xC0010018 Source: {DFBF51D9-DF81-41B9-9370-9DFC68E28FBA} Description: Error loading a task. The contact information for the task is "Send Mail Task; Microsoft Corporation; Microsoft SQL Server v9; ? 2004 Microsoft Corporation; All Rights Reserved;http://www.microsoft.com/sql/support/default.asp;1". This happens when loading a task fails. End Error Error: 2008-03-03 13:56:01.53 Code: 0xC001000E Source: TestMsgBox Description: The connection... Process Exit Code 1. The step failed.
The @[User::vString is a string variable in the package, and this particular package is actually just using the SendMail task without using an Access DB, as i'm trying to just get the dtexec utility to work. I believe i'm either doing something wrong or have found a bug, as i've used this in the past at another company without any issue.
Here's the cmd line that I'm using (I'm using the 32 bit version of dtexec): E:Progra~1Micros~190DTSBinndtexec.exe /SQL "TestMsgBox" /SERVER D1PSQL02V /CHECKPOINTING OFF /REPORTING EW
I have many problem when I try to install SQL 2005 Ets edition ia64 on a 2003 ets Itanium edition.
When I launch the setup, all is all right. But during the installation, it tryes to start MSSQL services.
The staring of this service failed. So I try to start the service mannually. Nothing.
Error messages I can get (in the event log) :
Source : Service Control Manager ; ID : 7000
Description :Service SQL Server (MSSQLSERVER) failed to start due to the following error: The service did not respond to the start or control request in a timely fashion.
Source : MsiInstaller ; ID 10005
Description : Product: Microsoft SQL Server 2005 (64 bits) -- Error 29503. Failure of the starting of service SQL Server. For more information, to see the headings of on line help €śProcedure: to post the files newspapers of installation of SQL Server 2005€? and €śmanual Starting of SQL Server€?. This error is (1053) The service did not respond to the start or control request in a timely fashion.
My server is a dual AMD x64 2.19 GHz with 8 GB RAM running under Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition with service pack 1 installed. We have SQL 2000 32-bit Enterprise installed in the default instance. AWE is enabled using Dynamically configured SQL Server memory with 6215 MB minimum memory and 6656 maximum memory settings.
I have now installed, side-by-side, SQL Server 2005 Enterprise Edition in a separate named instance. Everything is running fine but I believe SQL Server2005 could run faster and need to ensure I am giving it plenty of resources. I realize AWE is not needed with SQL Server 2005 and I have seen suggestions to grant the SQL Server account the 'lock pages in memory' rights. This box only runs the SQL 2000 and SQL 2005 server databases and I would like to ensure, if possible, that each is splitting the available memory equally, at least until we can retire SQL Server 2000 next year. Any suggestions?
We have an old machine which holds SQL server 2000 database. We need to migrate a whole database to a new machine which has SQL server 2005.
When we tried to move whole database using Import and Export Wizard, only tables can be selected to import/export. However we want to import/export the whole database, including tables, stored procedure, view, etc. Which tool should we use?
We have an old machine which holds SQL server 2000 database. We need to migrate a whole database to a new machine which has SQL server 2005.
When we tried to move whole database using Import and Export Wizard, only tables can be selected to import/export. However we want to import/export the whole database, including tables, stored procedure, view, etc. Which tool should we use?
When I proposed start to use SQL Server 2005 for new VS 2005 web sites, one of my co-workers responded that we will update the old SQL Server 2000 databases to SQL Server 2005 when we are ready to use 2005 SQL Server.
Questions: 1. Any expected problems to upgrade old 2000 databases to new 2005 SQL Server? 2. I have installed both 2005/Management Studio Express and 2000/Enterprise Manager in my PC. Any expected problems when running both 2000 and 2005 SQL Server at the same database server? 3. What is the best configuration for running SQL Server 2005 when we have old 2000 databases? Upgade or not upgrade?
I am getteing need help Query analyzer error Unable to connect server local Msg17, level 16,state 1 ODBC SQL server driver [DBNETLIB]SQL server does not exist
Hi, I am having a problem connecting my .net applications from the application server to the database server. When I run the application from my windows xp (sp2) box it works fine. When I try to connect via SQL Management Studio to the database server from the application server I get the same error. Here is the error: System.Data.SqlClient.SqlException: An error has occurred while establishing a connection to the server. When connecting to SQL Server 2005, this failure may be caused by the fact that under the default settings SQL Server does not allow remote connections. (provider: Named Pipes Provider, error: 40 - Could not open a connection to SQL Server) Here is the Environment: App Server: Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition Inside Company's Firewall/ Network Database Server: Windows Server 2000 Advanced Edition SQL Server 2000 SP4 Remote Connections to the Server is checked Enable Protocols: Named Pipes & TCP/IP TCP/IP Port: 1402 (I don't know why it isn't the default of 1433) The db server is sitting out side the Company's firewall (don't ask me why). I can access it fine from inside the firewall on my XP box but not from windows server 2003. There is a web server outside the our network that also connects to the db server with no problem and that is running Windows Server 2003 Web Edition. I can ping the db server from the app server using the IP address. I tried using the IP address and the port 1402 in my connection string but that didn't work from any machine (XP and Server). I imagine the issue is somehow related to the company's firewall but why would it only block Windows Server 2003 and not XP? What do I tell the network admin to change? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks, Oran
if you can restore a database to Server B using Server A as the service. Meaning we would issue the command on Server A but somehow point to Server B as where we want the restore to happen.
The backup file would be in a location independent of both servers.
Dear all,On Win2000 server with SP3, I am trying to access a SQL Server 7.0database, "TestDB", from VB6 via a SQL Server ODBC system DSN using ADO2.7. In SQL Server Enterprise Manager, there is a login named "Tester".In its property window, NO "Server Roles" was assigned but its"Database Access" was set to "TestDB". This login was also made as theuser of "TestDB" with "public", "db_datareader" and "db_datawriter"selected as its "Database role membership". All the tables I am tryingto access in "TestDB" were created under "Tester".My code is like:Set conn = New ADODB.Connectionconn.Open "DSN=TestDSN;UID=Tester;PWD=test"Set cmd = New ADODB.Commandcmd.ActiveConnection = conncmd.CommandText = SQLset rs = cmd.Execute()If I set the SQL to something like "SELECT * FROM tbl_test", I alwaysget an error of "-2147217865" saying "[Microsoft][ODBC SQL ServerDriver][SQL Server] Invalid object name tbl_test". If I set the SQL to"SELECT * FROM Tester.tbl_test", everything runs properly. Could anyoneplease kindly advise why the first SQL is not working? Or in otherwords, why must I prefix the table name with its owner while the DBconnection is already made under that owner name? Thanks in advance.Tracy
When I try to migrate a database on a SQL Server 2000 server to a SQL Server 2005 server with the Copy Database Wizard of the SQL Server Management Studio, I'm confronted with the following problem;
Performing operation...
- Add log for package (Success) - Add task for transferring database objects (Success) - Create package (Success) - Start SQL Server Agent Job (Success) - Execute SQL Server Agent Job (Error) Messages * The job failed. Check the event log on the destination server for details. (Copy Database Wizard)
When I take a look at 'Event viewer' on the SQL 2005 server, the following error is displayed;
InnerException-->An error has occurred while establishing a connection to the server. When connecting to SQL Server 2005, this failure may be caused by the fact that under the default settings SQL Server does not allow remote connections. (provider: Named Pipes Provider, error: 40 - Could not open a connection to SQL Server)
I already enabled the MSSQLSERVER network configuration protocols (TCP/IP and Named Pipes ).
My site works fine in VWD2008 express, but I get this error when I try to use it on my live website. An error has occurred while establishing a connection to the server. When connecting to SQL Server 2005, this failure may be caused by the fact that under the default settings SQL Server does not allow remote connections. According to this article: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/914277 I am supposed to:
1. Click Start, point to Programs, point to Microsoft SQL Server 2005, point to Configuration Tools, and then click SQL Server Surface Area Configuration. Ok, there is no such program in this folder. The only thing in there is "SQL Server Error and Usage Reporting"... The other thing I am greatly concerned with is this: All is want is for my webpages to be able to access my database for user authentication. I DO NOT want to grant the internet rights to remote connect to my database.
Hi All, Please some one help me... I have to insert a csv into one table in sql server. But the problem is the file is in one server and SQL SERVER 2005 is in other server.. how do i insert the file.... please help me.....
Hi Guys, I have had SQL Server Express and Sql Server Management Studio Express installed on my machine for some time and recently tried to install a trial of SQL Server 2005 as well. (Yes, I'm migrating from Visual Studio Express to Visual Studio Professional, just as in tended!) Everything went fine except that nothing seemed to be installed. I searched in all the obvious places - both on the Start/Programs menu and on the hard-drive: nothing. A check under Add/Remove Programs showed that Sql Server 2005 Express was installed, but called SQL Server 2005. So after a number of retries in which the install program kept saying that there was nothing to install, I selected every option under Advanced in the intall process. This resulted in stuff being installed and I now have SQL Server 2005 running on my machine, but no SQL Server Manager icon. My questions are:
Where can I find the SQL Server Manager executeable? Has anyone installed SQL Server Express, SQL Server Mangement Studio Express, SQL Server 2005 and SQL Server Management Studio on a single machine successfully? If so, what order did you install them in? (I'm planning on uninstalling everything SXQL Server related and starting again.) Thanks very much for your help. Regards Gary
Hi,Is it possible to install on a Windows server 2003,SQL SERVER 2000 in the folowing configuration :SQL server 7.0 as a default InstanceandSQL server 2000 as a named instance.Thanks for your answer.
Hi I have created a linked server from SQL Server 2005 (SP 1) to SQL Service 2000 (SP 4) with a sql server login that is available on both servers but with different passwords and permissions.
I am getting the following error while accessing the linked server in management studio based on the scenario given below ;
------ Error Message Starts OLE DB provider "SQLNCLI" for linked server "(SQL Server 2000 instance name)" returned message "Communication link failure". Msg 10054, Level 16, State 1, Line 0 TCP Provider: An existing connection was forcibly closed by the remote host. Msg 18456, Level 14, State 1, Line 0 Login failed for user 'abc'. ------ Error Message Ends
Consider login name is abc. Now this login abc has sysadmin rights on sql server 2005. The same login abc has only db_datareader rights on sql server 2000 on just one database and is not associated with any fixed server role.
I have configured the linked server using the following options; 1. I have tried impersonating login from SQL Server 2005 to SQL Server 2000 . 2. I have also tried specifying remote login / password option.
Anyone having any idea, would be of great help. Regards, Salman Shehbaz.
Msg 7399, Level 16, State 1, Procedure tr_cpD, Line 14
The OLE DB provider "SQLNCLI" for linked server "S2" reported an error. The provider did not give any information about the error.
Msg 7312, Level 16, State 1, Procedure tr_cpD, Line 14
Invalid use of schema or catalog for OLE DB provider "SQLNCLI" for linked server "S2". A four-part name was supplied, but the provider does not expose the necessary interfaces to use a catalog or schema.
I have an intranet environment consists of two servers:
- An application server windows 2003 server with 64-bit server Sharepoint 2007 SP1 (Standard version for search) - A database server windows 2003 server with 64-bit SQL Server 2005 SP2 64-bit (Standard - 9.0.3054)
It happens regularly that the database server crash (frozen black screen) while the application server indexes (crawl) the content of the intranet site based on sharepoint. There is no alert / error in the observer of events, nor in the sql logs.
The crash is uncertain: dice once all goes well, soon after that crash. When i set the parameter search service (service management research), I can define a regulatory impact of the robot to change the number of documents at the same time : "Request 2 documents at the same time, the crash is more rare, "ask 64 documents at a time, the crash is more common.
My Intranet under sharepoint is composed of a collection site with a dozen sub-sites. There are 3 large library of PDF document. All done in the 4 go in terms of volume.
My problem for about 3-4 months. (Maybe more. Before, indexing was not yet in place).
Can I connect from a SQL Server 2005 database to a SQL Server 2000 database, without establishing a linked server connection.
I need to fire a SELECT query on a SQL Server 2000 database, but don't want to add it as a linked server. Is there any way I can do this or its not possible??
I have a Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise server which I need to set up as a linked server in SQL Server 2005. The Sybase server is version 12.5.2, and the Sybase ODBC driver version is 4.20.00.67. I have already installed the Sybase client software on the server.
I also created a SystemDSN on the SQL Server to connect to the Sybase server. I tested the connection and it was able to connect.
I ran the following code to create the linked server:
I then ran sp_tables_ex to make sure I could view the tables in the Sybase database. Here is the error message I get:
<code>
OLE DB provider "MSDASQL" for linked server "LinkedServerName" returned message "[DataDirect][ODBC Sybase Wire Protocol driver]Error parsing connect string at offset 13. ".
Msg 7303, Level 16, State 1, Procedure sp_tables_ex, Line 41
Cannot initialize the data source object of OLE DB provider "MSDASQL" for linked server "LinkedServerName".
