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After applying Service Pack 1 for SQL Server 2012 you may encounter a known issue! Details inside…..
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SQL Server Support Content
I’d like to make you aware of an issue that may occur after installing Service Pack 1 for SQL Server 2012. Some of the symptoms are: The Windows Installer process (MSIExec.exe) repeatedly starts and attempts to repair specific SQL Server assemblies. Your...
Adding mount points to a WSFC SQL Cluster ( FCI ) Instance
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SQL Server Support Content
In this blog post I will look at how you can add a mount point to a Windows Server Failover Cluster and use that mount point for SQL Server 2005 and later installations. I already have the SQL FCI setup and configured, so at this point...
Tracking down Power View Performance Problems
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over 1 year ago
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SQL Server Support Content
The scenario was that we saw sluggishness on the initial load of a Power View Report and also when we went to use one of the filters on the report - like a Pie Chart Slice. For the given report the customer had showed us, the initial load was taking 13...
Upgrade from SQL 2005 to SQL 2012 fails with error “Service 'SQLSERVERAGENT' start request failed.”
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over 1 year ago
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SQL Server Support Content
I was working on a 2005 to 2012 upgrade issue and came across an interesting issue which I thought of sharing with you guys. Whilst running an upgrade from 2005 SP4 to 2012 RTM (and/or slipstreamed copy) it failed half way through, giving the error...
How to: Restoring SQL File stream Data
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over 1 year ago
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SQL Server Support Content
It is not uncommon to have multiple copies of the same database on a single instance or to restore copy of a database from one instance to another for testing. I was asked - “How does this work when I have filestream data in my database?” ...
When Does sp_prepare Return Metadata
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over 1 year ago
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SQL Server Support Content
I was running an RML Utilities Suite test pass and encountered varying behavior from our sp_prepare suite. Here is what I uncovered. The command sp_prepare returns (or does not return) metadata depending on the server version. For the client...
DReplay Message: “Active connections exceed 8192, connection 8409 is waiting.”
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over 1 year ago
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SQL Server Support Content
This message was an interesting dive into the DReplay, session boundary logic that I thought I would share. Internally DReplay maintains a progressive, session queue. This queue is limited to 8192 entries and populated in connection replay...
Monitoring SQL Server 2012 AlwaysOn Availability Groups Worker Thread Consumption
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over 1 year ago
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SQL Server Support Content
In most cases, people utilize SQL Server features and capabilities in a common and typical usage pattern. But there are some instances where environments do something just a little different, or fill the bucket to the absolute brim. With...
Slice on a Calculated Member that uses the Aggregate function
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over 1 year ago
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SQL Server Support Content
Applies to: SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services, SQL Server 2008 Analysis Services, SQL Server 2008 R2 Analysis Services, SQL Server 2012 Analysis Services Multidimensional Model A user reported seeing two different behaviors by running two slightly different...
Are my actual worker threads exceeding the sp_configure 'max worker threads' value?
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over 1 year ago
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SQL Server Support Content
Tom Stringer (@SQLife) was working on some HADR testing for a customer to simulate many availability groups and introduce significant load into the system to measure overhead and such. In his quest to do that he was seeing behavior that he couldn’t really...