Keeping SQL Server up-to-date is something I recommend my customers from time to time. One of the tasks I undertake is to check the current SQL Server version information as soon as I get started to work. Though this recommendation looks trivial at the first look, this is often something people don’t take it seriously. Almost in every environment that I have done this exercise, I see them being behind on the Service pack updates majority of the times. Let us learn in this blog post how to fix the error- Disallowing page allocations for database ‘DB’ due to insufficient memory in the resource pool.
SQL SERVER – Playing with Backups and Compression
The era of innovation with SQL Server administration side of things keep happening, it is strange that a lot of us miss these capabilities getting added into the system. I have seen processes define the way how DBA’s work. In a lot of places, the processes, scripts and behaviors are brought forward without a second thought. I wanted to share a recent story that happened at one of my client’s place. Let us talk my experience about playing with backups and compressions.
How to Downgrade Database from SQL Server 2014 to SQL Server 2012 – Interview Question of the Week #099
Question: How to downgrade from SQL Server 2014 to SQL Server 2012?
Answer: Not possible.
SQL SERVER – System Function @@IDLE to Find System Ideal Time
Just the other day I got an email with user asking how do the @@idle function work with SQL Server as when he runs them it gives him some number but the number is not easy to interpret. I totally agree with the observation. When I was new to SQL Server, the best learning resource available was SQL Server Books On Line. I used to read Books On Line and learn quite a bit from it.
SQL SERVER – Stop Growing MSDB Database by Removing sysmail_mailitems History
Received an email “Need your urgent help On Demand, our MSDB Database has grown too big and we need help to check our sysmail_mailitems table. We are also facing performance issues.” I have been an independent consultant for a while and one of the services I provide is “On Demand (50 minutes)” service. This service is very helpful for organizations who are in need immediate help with their performance tuning issue. Though, I have set working ours for my regular clients, every single day, I keep two hours available for this particular offering. This way, I can make sure that anyone who urgently needs my help, can avail the same.
SQL SERVER – Rule “Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) Service” failed
When I visit my client site for doing performance tuning consulting, I sometimes get trapped with some unrelated issue. Here is one of the situation where they were upgrading from SQL 2008 R2 to SQL 2014 on a two node cluster. During upgrade two rules were failing. In this blog post we will learn about how to fix when rule “Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) Service” fails.
SQL SERVER – Msg 19062, Level 16, State 1. Could Not Create a Trace File. Error = 0x80070005
One of my clients reported a strange problem and I learned something new from it. Here is the conversation where we discussed how to fix error 19062 – could not create a trace file.
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