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  • RE: Blocking a certain connection to DB

    Gail is right - address the root cause of the problem, don't try to cover it up.

    Best,
    Kevin G. Boles
    SQL Server Consultant
    SQL MVP 2007-2012
    TheSQLGuru on googles mail service

  • RE: Correct MAXDOP setting

    smthembu (7/19/2016)


    I have requested more RAM up to 64GB since that being a limitation for a VM:angry:

    Uh, if your VM software DOES have that limit, it is time to change...

    Best,
    Kevin G. Boles
    SQL Server Consultant
    SQL MVP 2007-2012
    TheSQLGuru on googles mail service

  • RE: Correct MAXDOP setting

    Jeff Moden (7/19/2016)


    smthembu (7/19/2016)


    @Gail, what else to look for?

    Can't speak for Gail but my suggestion would be... a small amount of money to at least quadruple memory or spend some...

    Best,
    Kevin G. Boles
    SQL Server Consultant
    SQL MVP 2007-2012
    TheSQLGuru on googles mail service

  • RE: SQL Server 2014 Alwayson

    You can force the secondary to become the primary and accept the data loss that happens due to unaccepted tlog activity from the primary. Or you can shut down everything...

    Best,
    Kevin G. Boles
    SQL Server Consultant
    SQL MVP 2007-2012
    TheSQLGuru on googles mail service

  • RE: File Group Running out of space frequently

    1) If you have HEAP tables deleting data from them does not release the space, even when a page is emptied.

    2) Someone was silly and set FILLFACTOR to a very...

    Best,
    Kevin G. Boles
    SQL Server Consultant
    SQL MVP 2007-2012
    TheSQLGuru on googles mail service

  • RE: File Group Running out of space frequently

    Uh, you are adding in new data maybe?? :w00t:

    Best,
    Kevin G. Boles
    SQL Server Consultant
    SQL MVP 2007-2012
    TheSQLGuru on googles mail service

  • RE: Execution plan differences in QA and Prod

    SQLBuzz (7/15/2016)


    Yeah my bad, I was told the system i identical on both the environment.

    But this issues was raised recently and it was working perfectly fine last 6 months...

    Best,
    Kevin G. Boles
    SQL Server Consultant
    SQL MVP 2007-2012
    TheSQLGuru on googles mail service

  • RE: Please advise about Antivirus Exclusions for SQL Database Files

    Database admin(DBA) (7/15/2016)


    Thank you for quick response.

    Can you please provide MSDN links here?

    Do you want me to suggest the customer to the following files be excluded from all antivirus scans:

    Please...

    Best,
    Kevin G. Boles
    SQL Server Consultant
    SQL MVP 2007-2012
    TheSQLGuru on googles mail service

  • RE: Please advise about Antivirus Exclusions for SQL Database Files

    Googling for sql server antivirus exclusions, the top two results are a Microsoft support page and an msdn blog page. I refer all of my clients to those two pages.

    Best,
    Kevin G. Boles
    SQL Server Consultant
    SQL MVP 2007-2012
    TheSQLGuru on googles mail service

  • RE: Execution plan differences in QA and Prod

    SQLBuzz (7/15/2016)


    Strange ...I was just looking into the setting and i had found these

    LogicalCPUs on Prod is 32

    LogicalCPUs on Dev is 40

    MAX DOP Setting on Prod...

    Best,
    Kevin G. Boles
    SQL Server Consultant
    SQL MVP 2007-2012
    TheSQLGuru on googles mail service

  • RE: Huge latency and waits with CDC

    Do a differential file IO and wait stats analyses to see how overwhelmed your server is. CDC can be an enormous overhead, especially on the IO subsystem. My guess is...

    Best,
    Kevin G. Boles
    SQL Server Consultant
    SQL MVP 2007-2012
    TheSQLGuru on googles mail service

  • RE: The best way to compare fields

    You can use system objects about the table/columns to write a query that will write the comparison query for you. Easy-peasy, lemon-squeezy!

    Best,
    Kevin G. Boles
    SQL Server Consultant
    SQL MVP 2007-2012
    TheSQLGuru on googles mail service

  • RE: Execution plan differences in QA and Prod

    Before I look at the query plans I have several questions:

    1) are the sql server versions (and database compatibility levels) EXACTLY the same?

    2) are the state of the involved tables...

    Best,
    Kevin G. Boles
    SQL Server Consultant
    SQL MVP 2007-2012
    TheSQLGuru on googles mail service

  • RE: Execute Proc at Startup Question

    Steve Jones - SSC Editor (7/14/2016)


    Nothing happens. I created this proc on SQL 2014:

    CREATE PROCEDURE mystarer

    AS

    SELECT 1/0

    EXEC sp_procoption 'mystarer', 'startup', 1

    I then restarted the instance. After loading XP DLLs,...

    Best,
    Kevin G. Boles
    SQL Server Consultant
    SQL MVP 2007-2012
    TheSQLGuru on googles mail service

  • RE: question on indexes

    Side note:Even though that page is added to the end of the index, adding that page still raises the 'page split occurred' event for XEvents and some other monitoring endpoints....

    Best,
    Kevin G. Boles
    SQL Server Consultant
    SQL MVP 2007-2012
    TheSQLGuru on googles mail service

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