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  • RE: Create Nonclustered Index hangs and won't complete

    GilaMonster (4/7/2012)


    Stefan Krzywicki (4/7/2012)


    Is there a way to access this information now or would I have had to be capturing it all along. All I have is historical run times.

    You...

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  • RE: Create Nonclustered Index hangs and won't complete

    GilaMonster (4/7/2012)


    Single drive, no RAID, no redundancy?

    As far as I know, yes. It is the impression I've gotten from meetings we've had about the system and our attempts to get...

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  • RE: Create Nonclustered Index hangs and won't complete

    One other thing to note, we're running the backups on this machine through EMC software's SQL Server backup system. Yesterday and today it has been far slower than normal and...

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  • RE: Create Nonclustered Index hangs and won't complete

    GilaMonster (4/7/2012)


    Stefan Krzywicki (4/7/2012)


    GilaMonster (4/7/2012)


    So H is getting hit by the index read, the sort space and the new index? Ow. Could be that you've just surpassed what the underlying...

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  • RE: Create Nonclustered Index hangs and won't complete

    Perry Whittle (4/7/2012)


    Stefan Krzywicki (4/7/2012)


    I'm sorry, I don't know how to answer that question.You mean other than each of those being a different physical drive?

    Yes, exactly. Get your server admin...

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  • RE: Create Nonclustered Index hangs and won't complete

    Perry Whittle (4/7/2012)


    Stefan Krzywicki (4/7/2012)


    Perry Whittle (4/7/2012)


    Other things to consider

    How many logical drives are you using?

    What are the physical disk configs underneath these?

    System dbs on C

    log files on G

    data...

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  • RE: Create Nonclustered Index hangs and won't complete

    GilaMonster (4/7/2012)


    So H is getting hit by the index read, the sort space and the new index? Ow. Could be that you've just surpassed what the underlying IO subsystem can...

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  • RE: Create Nonclustered Index hangs and won't complete

    Perry Whittle (4/7/2012)


    Other things to consider

    How many logical drives are you using?

    What are the physical disk configs underneath these?

    System dbs on C

    log files on G

    data files on H

    That's all...

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  • RE: Create Nonclustered Index hangs and won't complete

    GilaMonster (4/7/2012)


    Stefan Krzywicki (4/7/2012)


    GilaMonster (4/7/2012)


    Snapshot isolation?

    The warnings point to something slowing down the IOs on teh TempDB drive. Check that there hasn't been any changes to the Io subsystem recently

    What...

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  • RE: Create Nonclustered Index hangs and won't complete

    Table Definition

    [dbo].[FTD](

    [TransDetailID] [int] NOT NULL,

    [TransID] [uniqueidentifier] NOT NULL,

    [ProdID] [int] NULL,

    [FP] [int] NOT NULL,

    [TransTypeID] [smallint] NULL,

    [Units] [smallint] NULL,

    [Price] [smallmoney] NULL,

    [UnitOfMeasure] [varchar](10) SPARSE NULL,

    [ComboSeq] [int] SPARSE NULL,

    [ComboID] [int] SPARSE ...

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  • RE: Create Nonclustered Index hangs and won't complete

    GilaMonster (4/7/2012)


    Snapshot isolation?

    The warnings point to something slowing down the IOs on teh TempDB drive. Check that there hasn't been any changes to the Io subsystem recently

    What do you mean...

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    I'm suddenly unable to create an index on a table. The creation has been running nightly for over a year, but just stopped, it tries to run, but won't finish.

    I've...

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  • RE: Create Nonclustered Index hangs and won't complete

    CHECKDB on tempdb showed no problems.

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    SQLRNNR (4/5/2012)


    Steve Jones - SSC Editor (4/5/2012)


    SQLRNNR (4/5/2012)


    Topic Change:

    If you are in the area (or just visiting)

    Check this out:

    My wife has opened her new Photo Studio[/url]

    Congrats, and very cool.

    And apparently...

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Thought I'd mention this here for anyone who's a fan of golden age comics.

    Kickstarter Project: The Encyclopedia of Golden Age Superheroes by Jess Nevins

    He's a world-class researcher and a good...

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