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Question I have a SQL database that is hosted on Azure. The problem is that the size is getting out of control, I can see up to 99% fragmentation in the Primary Key clustered indexes. I'm able to rebuild all other indexes with online=on option and it won't …
Continue readingQuestion My problem: I have a set of views from which I want to query dynamically. I want to load the view names by SELECT * from sys.all_views into a cursor (let's call it view_cursor) and then do something like this in a procedure:
Continue readingQuestion This is in relation to a rollback scenario from a 2012 -> 2016 upgrade. The scenario is that the SQL Server 2012 database is restored onto 2016 and log files applied until it is up to date. Then production systems are cut over to 2016. Database is …
Continue readingQuestion Is there a simple way to reconnect a query window that is “not connected” to the original connection that was used by that query without manually picking the server name needed? If I click the Connect button on the SQL Editor toolbar or right click …
Continue readingQuestion I have a two node sql server 2008 r2 cluster that we just did an OS upgrade from windows 2008 r2 to windows 2012 r2, the OS upgrade was done in place so the SQL Server Installation stayed in tack. The cluster role won't come back online saying it's …
Continue readingQuestion I have created a table with 650 Numeric(19,4) columns. When I switch on Page Compression, by running ALTER TABLE fct.MyTable REBUILD WITH (DATA_COMPRESSION = PAGE); I get Msg 1975, Level 16, State 1 Index 'PK_Mytable' row length exceeds the maximum …
Continue readingQuestion I have a vendor solution that uses a sql server (2008r2) database. We are allowed to do anything we want in our own schema, but cannot modify dbo objects without vendor permission. Any customization we make is in our own schema (cust). We have full …
Continue readingQuestion I am just trying to look up more verbose information for a maintenance plan task that failed. I open up the log file viewer and check the box to view the logs for my maintenance plan. There are no active filters besides that in this example. Then I …
Continue readingQuestion I'm trying to balance read traffic between two SQL Server 2016 Enterprise Edition instances (Primary and Secondary) using availability groups and the read only routing. Here is my current setup: The servers are in AWS in two different AZ The servers …
Continue readingQuestion I have a powershell script that I am trying to add in to a sql agent job, but the job step is failing with the following error A job step received an error at line 1 in a PowerShell script. The corresponding line is 'import-module SQLPS …
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