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Error: SQL Server not found or Access Denied, General network errors & Timeout expired: Find the root cause with a trace?

Published 24 June 8 3:2 AM | SSQA.net

The following error is a frequent-faced issue by any SQL Server user : SQL Server is unavailable or does not exist or SQL Server does not exist or access denied In this regard we have already relevant post PotentialCauses_Resolution here, but still I...

Filed under: sql server, trace, error, access denied, netmon, general network error, timeout expired

SQL Server: Creating BlackBox kind of trace with TSQL

Published 28 May 8 6:59 AM | SSQA.net

Here is the kind of scripts defined within TEchnet articles about running black-box kind of traces against your SQL Server instance, then also you can take advantage of the blackbox trace if you are facing intermittent problems, you want to make sure...

Filed under: sql server, profiler, trace, tsql, size, blackbox

SQL Server Audit Trace - things you need to take care!

Published 6 March 8 3:17 AM | SSQA.net

Audit trace is very helpful when you want to monitor a particular processes on your SQL Server, even for the successful logins and recent users activity on the databsaes. But the default trace would have many columns with the information and you need...

Filed under: SOX, sql server, microsoft, solution, dmv, trace, audit, tsql, trace flag, c2

A fatal error occurred while reading the input stream from the network. The session will be terminated. Error: 4014, Severity: 20, State: 2

Published 1 October 7 4:40 AM | SSQA.net

This is a typical error you would get when a SSIS package is executed that involves remote server connectivity. Basically on the error note it will clearly identified as a network related issue. Similar issue happened at our end whereas the SSIS package...

Filed under: sql server, performance, ssis, trace, update, error, kba, installation, instances, 4014, netmon

TSQL to create a TraceCollector with a default collection set

Published 24 September 7 5:45 AM | SSQA.net

use msdb declare @schedule_uid uniqueidentifier select @schedule_uid=(select schedule_uid from msdb..sysschedules where name=N'CollectorSchedule_Every_15min') declare @collection_set_id int; exec dbo.sp_syscollector_create_collection_set @name...

Filed under: sql server, profiler, trace, query, tsql, collation, collecter, collection, msdb

How to use a stored procedure to monitor traces in SQL Server 2005

Published 4 September 7 11:39 AM | SSQA.net

The following pages were recently modified. Source: Knowledge Base Product: Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Enterprise Edition Notification Contents: New and Major Modifications How to use a stored procedure to monitor traces in SQL Server 2005 http://support...

Filed under: sql server, profiler, trace, kba, process, stored procedure

Table fragmentation, Index contention and locking issues to resolve

Published 31 July 7 9:31 AM | SSQA.net

Yet another important factors that every DBA needs to concerned about table & index fragmentation within their SQL Server environment. Refer to the a rticle about DetectTableFragmentation in both 2000 and 2005 version. Fragmentation occurs due to...

Filed under: sql server, profiler, performance, blocking, trace, process, table, locking, loss, fragmentation

Is it possible to estimate the space requirement for TEMPDB or factors that are affecting space?

Published 12 July 7 3:16 AM | SSQA.net

No straight answer to say yes you need so and so value to set on TEMPDB for such space requriement. By default i t is difficult to estimate the tempdb space requirement for an application. In general and one of the best practice is to allow 20% more space...

Filed under: sql server, fillfactor, indexes, trace, alerts, trigger, usage, tempdb, allocation, requirement

Having 'black-box' recorder for SQL Server!

Published 2 July 7 3:34 AM | SSQA.net

Say you have a serious performance problem and few times you will have assertion issue with a dump files creation, in real world say this can be matched to a airplane crash. Where you will know the sequence of events from Black-box records in the flight...

Filed under: sql server, profiler, performance, msdn, blogs, trace, black-box

Database consistency checks and transaction log is filing up, help?

Published 9 May 7 6:40 AM | SqlServer-QA.net (SSQA)

Yet anothe forums related question I would like to blog, as I have seen in my experience on newsgroups. There will be always a question asking about why Transaction log is filling up and blocking is ocurred when a DBREINDEX & CHECKDB processes are...

Filed under: sql server, performance, transaction log, dbcc, trace, search, concurrency, dba