i made an application using vb6 that access the table in a sqlserver database and in the load event i write
cn.mode=adsharedenyread
and i make two copies of the application and run them both of them read the data and no deny happen !!! although both of the applications have adsharedenyread
how can i make privilage for some users to read or write ?
by the way is that can be done in ado.net 2.0 ?
Dear all, I've been searching the article for error handling in SSIS but seems no article have same problem exactly as mine. In my package there's container, it contains Data Flow task and some of Script tasks. I put an error precedence from Data Flow task into Script task that contains script for log an error that might be occured. The Data Flow task imports data from flat file into SQL Server 2005 and I've set a semicolon as the column delimiter. Unfortunately there is a data in flat file that had one column contain semicolon as its value. This would trigger an error and I hope the error would be logged into a table as I wrote inside Script task. But it didn't work. The error precedence won't work, the package stop in flat file source instead. I've been trying the event handler but it didn't work either. Maybe I got wrong implementation, anybody can help me explain the error handler and solve the problem ? Here is the capture of my package, since I didn't know how to attach the picture in this forum. Thanks in advance.
First latest Identity column is 5 I try to insert value to table which have Identity column by ExecuteNonQuery() method. There was some error and rollback this transaction.and then I modified code for completely saving after that I try to insert value again by running program although this transaction completely But value in identity is 7 ( It seems value 6 didn't rollback when not completely saveing ) Please advise me How can I rollback Identity column value ?
I have a transaction log that is 80% full and will not dump. I have used the "dump transaction dbname with no_log" command. It return the usual "This command did not return data, and it did not return any rows". However, this didn't do anything. The transaction log is still full. I don't want to restart the server if I don't have to. Any ideas?
We have Active/Passive cluster on Windows 2003. It is a 2 nodes cluster. The active server came down and the Cluster didn't failover. Then we had to manually failover. Can you help me to decipher the Cluster.log to find out why it didn't failover?
00000d08.000012a8::2007/10/12-04:04:40.847 ERR SQL Server <SQL Server>: [sqsrvres] CheckQueryProcessorAlive: sqlexecdirect failed 00000d08.000012a8::2007/10/12-04:04:40.847 ERR SQL Server <SQL Server>: [sqsrvres] printODBCError: sqlstate = HYT00; native error = 0; message = [Microsoft][SQL Native Client]Query timeout expired 00000d08.000012a8::2007/10/12-04:04:40.847 ERR SQL Server <SQL Server>: [sqsrvres] OnlineThread: QP is not online. 0000077c.000003dc::2007/10/12-04:04:43.785 INFO [CP] CppRegNotifyThread checkpointing key SoftwareMicrosoftMicrosoft SQL ServerMSSQL.1MSSQLSERVER to id 4 due to timer 0000077c.000003dc::2007/10/12-04:04:43.785 INFO [Qfs] QfsGetTempFileName C:DOCUME~1SVC_CL~1LOCALS~1Temp, CLS, 13522 => C:DOCUME~1SVC_CL~1LOCALS~1TempCLS34D2.tmp, status 0 0000077c.000003dc::2007/10/12-04:04:43.785 INFO [Qfs] QfsDeleteFile C:DOCUME~1SVC_CL~1LOCALS~1TempCLS34D2.tmp, status 0 0000077c.000003dc::2007/10/12-04:04:43.785 INFO [Qfs] QfsRegSaveKey C:DOCUME~1SVC_CL~1LOCALS~1TempCLS34D2.tmp, status 0 0000077c.000003dc::2007/10/12-04:04:43.785 INFO [CP] CpSaveData: checkpointing data id 4 to quorum node 1 0000077c.000003dc::2007/10/12-04:04:43.785 INFO [CP] CppWriteCheckpoint checkpointing file C:DOCUME~1SVC_CL~1LOCALS~1TempCLS34D2.tmp to file Q:MSCS 592a048-5457-426a-a46d-996441ef0182 0000004.CPT 0000077c.000003dc::2007/10/12-04:04:43.785 INFO [Qfs] QfsCreateDirectory Q:MSCS 592a048-5457-426a-a46d-996441ef0182, status 183 0000077c.000003dc::2007/10/12-04:04:43.785 INFO [Qfs] QfsOpenFile C:DOCUME~1SVC_CL~1LOCALS~1TempCLS34D2.tmp => 3, 36cf960 status 0 0000077c.000003dc::2007/10/12-04:04:43.785 INFO [Qfs] QfsOpenFile Q:MSCS 592a048-5457-426a-a46d-996441ef0182 0000004.CPT => 2, 36cf8d0 status 183 0000077c.000003dc::2007/10/12-04:04:43.785 INFO [Qfs] ReadFile 928 (regf) 32768 16384, (0=>0) 0 status 0 0000077c.000003dc::2007/10/12-04:04:43.785 INFO [Qfs] WriteFile 95c (regf) 16384, status 0 (0=>0) 0000077c.000003dc::2007/10/12-04:04:43.785 INFO [Qfs] ReadFile 928 (regf) 32768 0, (0=>0) 0 status 0 0000077c.000003dc::2007/10/12-04:04:43.785 INFO [Qfs] QfsFlushBuffers 95c, status 0 0000077c.000003dc::2007/10/12-04:04:43.785 INFO [Qfs] QfsCloseHandle 928, status 0 0000077c.000003dc::2007/10/12-04:04:43.785 INFO [Qfs] QfsCloseHandle 95c, status 0 0000077c.000003dc::2007/10/12-04:04:43.785 INFO [Qfs] QfsDeleteFile C:DOCUME~1SVC_CL~1LOCALS~1TempCLS34D2.tmp, status 0 0000077c.000003dc::2007/10/12-04:06:23.084 INFO [CP] CppRegNotifyThread checkpointing key SoftwareMicrosoftMicrosoft SQL ServerMSSQL.1MSSQLSERVER to id 4 due to timer 0000077c.000003dc::2007/10/12-04:06:23.084 INFO [Qfs] QfsGetTempFileName C:DOCUME~1SVC_CL~1LOCALS~1Temp, CLS, 13523 => C:DOCUME~1SVC_CL~1LOCALS~1TempCLS34D3.tmp, status 0 0000077c.000003dc::2007/10/12-04:06:23.084 INFO [Qfs] QfsDeleteFile C:DOCUME~1SVC_CL~1LOCALS~1TempCLS34D3.tmp, status 0 0000077c.000003dc::2007/10/12-04:06:23.084 INFO [Qfs] QfsRegSaveKey C:DOCUME~1SVC_CL~1LOCALS~1TempCLS34D3.tmp, status 0 0000077c.000003dc::2007/10/12-04:06:23.084 INFO [CP] CpSaveData: checkpointing data id 4 to quorum node 1 0000077c.000003dc::2007/10/12-04:06:23.084 INFO [CP] CppWriteCheckpoint checkpointing file C:DOCUME~1SVC_CL~1LOCALS~1TempCLS34D3.tmp to file Q:MSCS 592a048-5457-426a-a46d-996441ef0182 0000004.CPT 0000077c.000003dc::2007/10/12-04:06:23.084 INFO [Qfs] QfsCreateDirectory Q:MSCS 592a048-5457-426a-a46d-996441ef0182, status 183 0000077c.000003dc::2007/10/12-04:06:23.084 INFO [Qfs] QfsOpenFile C:DOCUME~1SVC_CL~1LOCALS~1TempCLS34D3.tmp => 3, 36cf960 status 0 0000077c.000003dc::2007/10/12-04:06:23.084 INFO [Qfs] QfsOpenFile Q:MSCS 592a048-5457-426a-a46d-996441ef0182 0000004.CPT => 2, 36cf8d0 status 183 0000077c.000003dc::2007/10/12-04:06:23.084 INFO [Qfs] ReadFile 95c (regf) 32768 16384, (0=>0) 0 status 0 0000077c.000003dc::2007/10/12-04:06:23.084 INFO [Qfs] WriteFile 928 (regf) 16384, status 0 (0=>0) 0000077c.000003dc::2007/10/12-04:06:23.084 INFO [Qfs] ReadFile 95c (regf) 32768 0, (0=>0) 0 status 0 0000077c.000003dc::2007/10/12-04:06:23.084 INFO [Qfs] QfsFlushBuffers 928, status 0 0000077c.000003dc::2007/10/12-04:06:23.084 INFO [Qfs] QfsCloseHandle 95c, status 0 0000077c.000003dc::2007/10/12-04:06:23.084 INFO [Qfs] QfsCloseHandle 928, status 0 0000077c.000003dc::2007/10/12-04:06:23.084 INFO [Qfs] QfsDeleteFile C:DOCUME~1SVC_CL~1LOCALS~1TempCLS34D3.tmp, status 0 0000077c.000003dc::2007/10/12-04:08:08.259 INFO [CP] CppRegNotifyThread checkpointing key SoftwareMicrosoftMicrosoft SQL ServerMSSQL.1MSSQLSERVER to id 4 due to timer 0000077c.000003dc::2007/10/12-04:08:08.259 INFO [Qfs] QfsGetTempFileName C:DOCUME~1SVC_CL~1LOCALS~1Temp, CLS, 13524 => C:DOCUME~1SVC_CL~1LOCALS~1TempCLS34D4.tmp, status 0 0000077c.000003dc::2007/10/12-04:08:08.259 INFO [Qfs] QfsDeleteFile C:DOCUME~1SVC_CL~1LOCALS~1TempCLS34D4.tmp, status 0 0000077c.000003dc::2007/10/12-04:08:08.259 INFO [Qfs] QfsRegSaveKey C:DOCUME~1SVC_CL~1LOCALS~1TempCLS34D4.tmp, status 0 0000077c.000003dc::2007/10/12-04:08:08.259 INFO [CP] CpSaveData: checkpointing data id 4 to quorum node 1 0000077c.000003dc::2007/10/12-04:08:08.259 INFO [CP] CppWriteCheckpoint checkpointing file C:DOCUME~1SVC_CL~1LOCALS~1TempCLS34D4.tmp to file Q:MSCS 592a048-5457-426a-a46d-996441ef0182 0000004.CPT 0000077c.000003dc::2007/10/12-04:08:08.259 INFO [Qfs] QfsCreateDirectory Q:MSCS 592a048-5457-426a-a46d-996441ef0182, status 183 0000077c.000003dc::2007/10/12-04:08:08.259 INFO [Qfs] QfsOpenFile C:DOCUME~1SVC_CL~1LOCALS~1TempCLS34D4.tmp => 3, 36cf960 status 0 0000077c.000003dc::2007/10/12-04:08:08.259 INFO [Qfs] QfsOpenFile Q:MSCS 592a048-5457-426a-a46d-996441ef0182 0000004.CPT => 2, 36cf8d0 status 183 0000077c.000003dc::2007/10/12-04:08:08.259 INFO [Qfs] ReadFile 7e0 (regf) 32768 16384, (0=>0) 0 status 0 0000077c.000003dc::2007/10/12-04:08:08.259 INFO [Qfs] WriteFile 95c (regf) 16384, status 0 (0=>0) 0000077c.000003dc::2007/10/12-04:08:08.259 INFO [Qfs] ReadFile 7e0 (regf) 32768 0, (0=>0) 0 status 0 0000077c.000003dc::2007/10/12-04:08:08.259 INFO [Qfs] QfsFlushBuffers 95c, status 0 0000077c.000003dc::2007/10/12-04:08:08.259 INFO [Qfs] QfsCloseHandle 7e0, status 0 0000077c.000003dc::2007/10/12-04:08:08.259 INFO [Qfs] QfsCloseHandle 95c, status 0 0000077c.000003dc::2007/10/12-04:08:08.259 INFO [Qfs] QfsDeleteFile C:DOCUME~1SVC_CL~1LOCALS~1TempCLS34D4.tmp, status 0 0000077c.00000844::2007/10/12-04:09:11.323 INFO [Qfs] GetDiskFreeSpaceEx Q:MSCS, status 0 0000077c.000003dc::2007/10/12-04:09:56.652 INFO [CP] CppRegNotifyThread checkpointing key SoftwareMicrosoftMicrosoft SQL ServerMSSQL.1MSSQLSERVER to id 4 due to timer 0000077c.000003dc::2007/10/12-04:09:56.652 INFO [Qfs] QfsGetTempFileName C:DOCUME~1SVC_CL~1LOCALS~1Temp, CLS, 13525 => C:DOCUME~1SVC_CL~1LOCALS~1TempCLS34D5.tmp, status 0 0000077c.000003dc::2007/10/12-04:09:56.652 INFO [Qfs] QfsDeleteFile C:DOCUME~1SVC_CL~1LOCALS~1TempCLS34D5.tmp, status 0 0000077c.000003dc::2007/10/12-04:09:56.652 INFO [Qfs] QfsRegSaveKey C:DOCUME~1SVC_CL~1LOCALS~1TempCLS34D5.tmp, status 0 0000077c.000003dc::2007/10/12-04:09:56.652 INFO [CP] CpSaveData: checkpointing data id 4 to quorum node 1 0000077c.000003dc::2007/10/12-04:09:56.652 INFO [CP] CppWriteCheckpoint checkpointing file C:DOCUME~1SVC_CL~1LOCALS~1TempCLS34D5.tmp to file Q:MSCS 592a048-5457-426a-a46d-996441ef0182 0000004.CPT 0000077c.000003dc::2007/10/12-04:09:56.652 INFO [Qfs] QfsCreateDirectory Q:MSCS 592a048-5457-426a-a46d-996441ef0182, status 183 0000077c.000003dc::2007/10/12-04:09:56.652 INFO [Qfs] QfsOpenFile C:DOCUME~1SVC_CL~1LOCALS~1TempCLS34D5.tmp => 3, 36cf960 status 0 0000077c.000003dc::2007/10/12-04:09:56.652 INFO [Qfs] QfsOpenFile Q:MSCS 592a048-5457-426a-a46d-996441ef0182 0000004.CPT => 2, 36cf8d0 status 183 0000077c.000003dc::2007/10/12-04:09:56.652 INFO [Qfs] ReadFile 928 (regf) 32768 16384, (0=>0) 0 status 0 0000077c.000003dc::2007/10/12-04:09:56.652 INFO [Qfs] WriteFile 7e0 (regf) 16384, status 0 (0=>0) 0000077c.000003dc::2007/10/12-04:09:56.652 INFO [Qfs] ReadFile 928 (regf) 32768 0, (0=>0) 0 status 0 0000077c.000003dc::2007/10/12-04:09:56.652 INFO [Qfs] QfsFlushBuffers 7e0, status 0 0000077c.000003dc::2007/10/12-04:09:56.652 INFO [Qfs] QfsCloseHandle 928, status 0 0000077c.000003dc::2007/10/12-04:09:56.652 INFO [Qfs] QfsCloseHandle 7e0, status 0 0000077c.000003dc::2007/10/12-04:09:56.652 INFO [Qfs] QfsDeleteFile C:DOCUME~1SVC_CL~1LOCALS~1TempCLS34D5.tmp, status
You can use a Select top @variable in sql server 2005:Thus:--'Throttle' the result set:Select Top (@MaxBatchSize)KeyID, LId, ArrivalDt, CaptureDt, Lat, LongFrom GPSDataOrder By CaptureDt DescMakes messing with Set Rowcount *so* redundant :-)
--create a temp table like: select * into #tmp from (select 1 as ID union all select 2 union all select 3 union all select 4 ) as A
-then run this query: select B.ID,isNull(B.GID,0) as GID from (select #tmp.ID,A.GID from #tmp left outer join (select ID,1 as GID from #tmp where ID in (2,4)) A on #tmp.ID = A.ID ) as B
--I thougth it should return: 10 21 30 41 --but it actually returned: IDGID 11 21 31 41 --if I change GID value in '...(select ID,1 as GID from #tmp where ID in (2,4)...', for example 2, then it return: IDGID 12 22 32 42
I have just done my first clean install of SQL 2005. I have previously upgraded several boxes from SQL 2000 without incident.
The clean install seemed to go fine but the Maintenance Tasks didn't install? I have looked on the web but have been unable to unearth any information. Has anyone encountered this before and if so I how do I add Maintenance Tasks to the Management folder?
Hi every body ! I try to insert the reportViewer in my asp page, all is good, but if I want to change (by choosing another report), and i cannot call the method RefreshReport() as I saw in the msdn documentation. I didn't understand why, I download the ReportViewer from msdn download : the version is 2.0.50727.42 from 22/01/2006... I implement in my asp designer tools the following dll : Microsoft.SqlServer.UpgradeAdvisor.ReportViewer.dll 9.0.1399.1 from 14/10/2005
Did I forget any code line ? or did I download a bad version ?
I created a SSIS package that imports a file then moves the file to a folder called processed. I created a job that runs the package. The pack works fine when I run it from the SQL Storage Area. When I run the job I get the following message:
Started: 9:58:15 AM DTExec: The package execution returned DTSER_SUCCESS (0). Started: 9:58:15 AM Finished: 9:58:21 AM Elapsed: 6.047 seconds. The package executed successfully. The step succeeded.
showing that the job supposedly completed successfully.
I know that the package the not run because the data did not get imported and the file did not move.
Can anyone explain the package may not run but we still get a job completion status of success?
I have 1 table: ID pagename datevisited 1default01/01/2006 1info01/01/2006 1default02/01/2006 1info02/01/2006 1summary02/01/2006 2default02/01/2006 2info02/01/2006 2summary02/01/2006
I need to run query for ID who didn't visited a summary page(per day) How do I do this?
I have a backup plan that remove the old backup files more than two days. Last Monday, the SQL Server restart. Since that, the backup is fine, but it didn't remove the old backup files. Why and how to handle that? Thanks
I ran a SQL statement to get the data from two tables using join. These two tables have a column in the same name €śID€?.
SQL=€?select * from table1 a, table2 b where a.ID=b.ID€? Set RS=DB.Execute(SQL)
The statement worked. But when I output the records in my ASP pages, I got an error: ADODB.Recordset error '800a0cc1' Item cannot be found in the collection corresponding to the requested name or ordinal€?
This is the line caused error: <%= RS(€śa.ID€?) %>
It seemed that SQL Server recordset doesn€™t carry the table aliens. If I removed a. from ID the error was gone but it gave me the value of b.ID.
my problem is i create a user in sqlserver from enterprise manager as follows:-
1- goto logins and new login 2-type a name and choose sqlserver authentication and type a password 3- from server roles tab i choose system administrators 4 from database access i choose the database i need that user to connect to .and OK 5-i goto database node in enterprise manager and select the database and the table and double click on it and choose permissions and de-select the SELECT privilige
then i use ADO to connect to sqlserver through that user and when i select(SQL query) the table the data appeared normally !!!! and it suppose to give me exception
Dear all, I have built an SSIS package by using the BI Dev Studio and enabled its configuration xml file. The package have a variable called TranDate and I want to put it dynamically from a Calendar on my website (just like assigning a variable). I have successfully change the value of that variable in the configuration files (affected to the xml file). Then I loaded the package and executed it (through my web). It's still get the old value (which I have assigned while creating the package). I didn't understand that where else can the package get the value of that variable so it still get the old value (that value have never appeared in the xml configuration file anymore when I changed it).
Thanks for reading this, and I am looking forward to seeing any helps from you guys.
I am doing search through Date Range but didn't get correct result.
For Example if i created a Task on 5/8/2014 and when i have take Date Range from 1/8/2014 to 6/8/2014 then didn't get 5/8/2014 data in result but when i taken range from 1/8/2014 to 5/8/2014 then got the 5th Date data.
I thought I had applied sp2 successfully but I discovered when I tried to apply the hotfix ( sqlserver2005-kb933097-x86-enu.exe), that the SQL Server Tools and Workstation Components wasn't at the 3042 level.
The recommendation in the log file is to:
"Update 3152 is dependent on prerequisite update 3042. Exit setup and refer to the Knowledge Base article to find the prerequisite patch."
Does anyone know where I find the prerequisite patch?
Any help would be appreciated.
Regards Noel
Time: 03/13/2007 18:05:39.045 KB Number: KB933097 Machine: NOEL_EVO OS Version: Microsoft Windows XP Professional Service Pack 2 (Build 2600) Package Language: 1033 (ENU) Package Platform: x86 Package SP Level: 2 Package Version: 3152 Command-line parameters specified: Cluster Installation: No
********************************************************************************** Prerequisites Check & Status SQLSupport: Passed
********************************************************************************** Products Detected Language Level Patch Level Platform Edition SQL Server Database Services 2005 (SQL2005) ENU SP1 2005.090.3042.00 x86 DEVELOPER SQL Server Analysis Services 2005 (SQL2005) ENU SP1 2005.090.3042.00 x86 DEVELOPER SQL Server Reporting Services 2005 (SQL2005) ENU SP1 9.00.3042.00 x86 DEVELOPER SQL Server Notification Services 2005 ENU SP1 9.00.3042.00 x86 DEVELOPER SQL Server Integration Services 2005 ENU SP1 9.00.3042.00 x86 DEVELOPER SQL Server Tools and Workstation Components 2005 ENU SP1 9.1.2153 x86 DEVELOPER
********************************************************************************** Products Disqualified & Reason Product Reason SQL Server Tools and Workstation Components 2005 The product instance SQL Tools does not have prerequisite update 3042 installed. Update 3152 is dependent on prerequisite update 3042. Exit setup and refer to the Knowledge Base article to find the prerequisite patch. Install the prerequisite and rerun the installation.
Hi, i'm doing POS system by using C# in visual studio 2005. Recently, i installed the microsoft sql server management studio on my pc, i plan to do merge replication through local publications between my pocket pc and my pc. So, i opened the replication file which is under Object Explorer in microsoft sql server management studio, it ONLY show me the local subscription folder under the replication file.Do i install incomplete set of microsoft sql server management studio?Local publications and local subscription, which one is more suitable for POS system?
I have a 2.8G SQL 7 database with 1.6G used space. I want to shrink it to 1.8G, but after I issued the 'DBCC srhinkfile(datafile, 1800)', it didn't shrink the file, instead it expanded to 2.7G used space? I tried on a test server, the command worked every time although the time to complete the task tended to increase every time.
I did the DBCC DBREINDEX (fill factor 90) and updated usage, the size didn't change. DBCC CHECKDB, CATELOG AND SHOWCONTIG were all performed and there wasn't any error or fragmentation.
Now I'm wondering what's the actual size of my database, 1.6G or 2.7G? If there's a way that I can get back close to my original used sized, then I can try to shink the file again. Any comment is welcome. Thanks advance.
We have a sales fact table that has sales by customers, products, date etc. and dimension tables such as customers, products etc.
We built a multi-dimensional cube on top of these tables. how do we support queries like "show me top 10 products by sales amount and then show customers that didn't buy these products"?
My error is that 'Name tr is not declared' tr.Rollback() I tried moving the 'Dim tr As SqlTransaction' outside the try but then I get 'Variable tr is used before it si assinged a value'. What is the correct way? Try conn.Open() Dim tr As SqlTransaction tr = conn.BeginTransaction() cmdInsert1.Transaction = tr cmdInsert1.ExecuteNonQuery() cmdInsert2.Transaction = tr cmdInsert2.ExecuteNonQuery() cmdInsert3.Transaction = tr cmdInsert3.ExecuteNonQuery() tr.Commit() Catch objException As SqlException tr.Rollback() Dim objError As SqlError For Each objError In objException.Errors Response.Write(objError.Message) Next Finally conn.Close() End Try
I have the below procedure that will not work- I must be losing my mind, this is not that difficult - mental roadblock for me. Using SQL Server 2000 to create SP being called by ASP.Net with C# code behind stored procedure only returns if input exactly matches L_Name PROCEDURE newdawn.LinkNameLIKESearch @L_Name nvarchar(100)AS SELECT [L_Name], [L_ID], [C_ID], [L_Enabled], [L_Rank], [L_URL] FROM tblContractorLinkInfo WHERE L_Name LIKE @L_Name RETURN I tried: WHERE L_Name LIKE ' % L_Name % ' no luck. What am I missing? Thank you
SELECT H.id, H.CategoryID ,H.Image ,H.StoryId ,H.Publish, H.PublishDate, H.Date ,H.Deleted ,SL.ListTitle,C.CategoryTitle FROM HomePageImage H JOIN shortlist SL on H.StoryId = SL.id (INNER JOIN category C on H.CategoryId = C.CategoryId) order by date DESC
I have a textbox and a checkbox on a form and I'd like to add both values to a db. The textbox value gets inserted fine but I'm having trouble with the checkbox. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.
Beside working right from the server how else someone can perform the SQL admistration job, I guess my question is how do most SQL DBA perform their administration without going to the server directly. Anyone --- can help please??
Declare @StartDate datetime Declare @EndDate Datetime Set @StartDate = dateadd(day, datediff(day, 0, getdate()), 0) Set @EndDate = getdate()
The job runs at 11:30 pm so I want the start date to be the same but the time to be equal to 00:00:00.0 When I run the getdate does it also return a time stamp?
I had a problem where some users were experiencing timeouts when trying to add a single record to a table with 2.3 million records. It's not a very wide table; only 10 columns and the biggest column in varchar 500. The rest are guid, datetime, tinyint...
There is also an old VB app that inserts about 3000 records a day into this table during office hours while users occasionally try and insert a record into this table.
Something said to me that the problem could be indexes but I wasn't quite sure because I though indexes only have an impact on select, delete & update. And not particulary on insert. But I checked it out anyway and noticed that the 3 indexes (1 column PK, 1 column Clustered & 1 column non-clustered) weren't padded. So I changed that (Fill Factor 95) and the problem has gone away. But why? I thought the insert would just have appended it to the end of the index before I made this change? Why would that time out?