Just another day while doing performance tuning engagement, Senior DBA of the organization and I both noticed that one of the SP sp_readrequest is continuously listed as long running SP. Well, the good part was that it was not taking too much of the resources. The page read and write were pretty low and the SP was not blocking anything at all. Initially we decided to ignore this SP as there were quite a lots of other things which we needed to take care to get maximum performance of the server.
How to Find How Many Rows Each Query Returned Along with Execution Plan? – Interview Question of the Week #115
Question: How to Find How Many Rows Each Query Returned Along with Execution Plan?
SQL SERVER – Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.Sdk. Sfc.EnumeratorException: Failed to Retrieve Data for This Request
If you work with a product for a long time, you would start loving it. I have worked with many other RDBMS, but my love to SQL Server will never die. The amount of information available in logs is very helpful and can help in pointing the exact issue related to retrieve data.
SQL SERVER – Availability Group Missing or Deleted Automatically?
As a part of my passion, I try to help people in fixing simple issues and explain the behavior by looking at logs. Here is an email from my friend about Availability Group Missing or Deleted Automatically.
WordPress – How to Move from HTTP to HTTPS – The Simple Complete Tutorial
Since I moved our blog from HTTP protocol to HTTPS, there are plenty of questions I have received from various users to share the steps to secure your site with HTTPS. After receiving so many requests, I have decided to build a simple, complete tutorial to move Wordpress site from HTTP to HTTPS.
SQL SERVER – Maintenance Plan – Could not load type ‘Microsoft.SqlServer.Dts. Runtime.Wrapper. IDTSPackageSigning100’ from Assembly
One of my client was unable to modify the maintenance plan using SSMS. When we did various tests, we found that existing maintenance plans could execute and work. We tried creating a new maintenance plan and found it to be working. So, our issue is confined to “unable to modify existing plans”. Here is the error message
SQL SERVER – Errorlog The Server was Unable to Initialize Encryption Because of a Problem with a Security Library
One of my client was trying to start SQL Service and it was failing. I asked to hare ERRORLOG so that we will get some idea about the cause. Here is the information from ERRORLOG file.
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