Questions tagged [enterprise-edition]
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MSSQL Server Resource Governance alternative
I've been looking into solutions for managing CPU sharing over multiple apps accessing the same SQL server database engine.I found that Resource Governance is one perfect way for me to define those ...
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SQL server encryption
i am using SQL server enterprise edition V.2019
i need to encrypt some columns
i liked IBM Guardium for File and Database Encryption but the cost is too high .
so i found some other solutions
1- SQL ...
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Oracle: Decreasing PCTFREE on large table
Question about Oracle Database Enterprise Edition version 19.10.0.0.0 running as a standalone instance.
I have a table with billions of rows. The table has always had PCTFREE set to 10.
It turns out ...
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How can I measure the impact of queries with errors being rejected by SQL Server?
After configuring XE on November 23, 2020 to capture some errors I could count 2,163,665 occurrences of the same error coming from requests of a legacy app (that probably won’t be corrected so soon). ...
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can you setup replication on mirrored SQL database
Just moved to SQL2017 Ent. Currently, do transactional replication for 1.5TB DB. the replicated database is used for data analytics, mainly Power BI reports. Need near real-time data. When I have ...
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How does Automatic Seeding work - Always On Availability Group
I found only these two statements from BOL regarding this Initial Data Synchronization method:
Link 1
Automatic seeding uses the log stream transport to stream the backup
using VDI to the secondary ...
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Nonclustered Index Rebuild Online on Heap Table
Recently read that rebuilding a heap online in SQL Server Enterprise is single threaded and does not go parallel.
My question is: If you try to rebuild online just non-clustered indexes on a heap ...
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In SQL Server, what is "Partitioned Table Parallelism" that is only available in Enterprise Edition?
I am reviewing the differences between Standard and Enterprise editions of SQL Server and can't reproduce the differences advertised in this demo that explains the differences - the performance I ...
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what is the best approach to send report by Email?
I've been requested to create some sql server reports ( create a report and send them by email ) for some poeple. I thought it would be like 2 or 3 but now that they know I can do it, every week I ...
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High Availability with Transactional Replication
We are using SQL 2017 Enterprise and setting up a new DR site. One of our servers (Server B) is used for reporting and has many databases, one of which has tables populated through Transactional ...
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Distributed Always-On without Domain
We have a requirement to configure a distributed availability group from Data center1 to Data Center2 using SQL Server 2017 Enterprise Edition.
DC1 (two nodes WSFC setup): SQLDB1, SQLDB2
DC2 (two ...
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Is it possible to accidentally use some paid feature in Oracle XE database while in an Enterprise environment?
IT in my org are wary about approving me installing Oracle Express Edition.
https://www.oracle.com/database/technologies/xe-downloads.html
Their reasoning is that apparently some DBA once said that ...
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Exactly same query and plan but different duration and total reads. I Know parameter sniffing but
I know what is parameter sniffing but this seems different, I have this simple query:
select * from A400RDATA
This table has only a cluster index and approximately 25000 rows. The query usually ...
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SQL Server: Read Only replica of production server
I have a production database which is being used by my primary application. Another department has created a new application for which I need to provide subset of my data from my database. The new ...
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Manipulating a Column Containing Key/Value Pairs
I'm accessing and creating reports from a vendor via a replicated SQL Server database. They've done some absolutely insane things that I've been trying to solve for, but this one takes the cake.
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Using SPID in DB Tables (instead of Table Variable)
Transactional database used for booking things...
Our vendor was asked to replace #temptables with @tablevariables (because of heavy compile locks) but instead they replaced with an actual table ...
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SQL Server 2008 R2 Edition Upgrade Process
I have several SQL Server 2008 R2 Standard Edition instances that we need to upgrade to SQL Server 2008 R2 Enterprise Edition.
If I have valid SQL Server 2017 Enterprise Edition (with SA) PIDs, do I ...
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Auditing of modification of change to encryption keys
Is it possible to audit/log any attempts or actual changes to the keys used in the encryption hierarchy?
We are using 2014 Enterprise edition and have recently enabled TDE across our databases and ...
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Modifying Schema on secondary replica
I am looking for a solution for a secondary replica change. I have a vendor database that uses memory optimized tables. I am trying to find a solution that would allow the In Memory tables be ...
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How do SQL Server users deploy for different licenses of the same release of SQL Server?
Let's assume I want to deploy something like this to SQL Server,
ALTER TABLE foo
ALTER COLUMN a varchar(11) NOT NULL
WITH (ONLINE = ON);
This will work fine if your version of SQL Server is "...
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Database Blocking, kill the session which is responsible after 5 minutes
I have been struggling with database blocking at my database server from last so many months. Have tried to use many ways to capture them and also aware that who are leaders of blocking. This ...
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Upgrade/Transition Path from MySQL Community 5.6.31 to Enterprise
Full disclosure. I have never upgraded a database. I have a MySQL Community that is not the latest @5.6.31 ( latest is 8 ?) to the paid, Enterprise version. We will ask Tech Support once purchase of ...
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Transactional Replication Synchronization taking too long to respond
I successfully generated the snapshot, but subscription is not working correctly. Either the synchronization takes too long to respond or it simply displays the text shown in below attached screenshot....
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How to find the erroneous code failing the SSDT publish?
Every time something fails the publish, assuming it passes the preview generation, the error line and executed script sample are completely useless at helping me trace the source of the error, since ...
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Restore Read Only FileGroups from File
I have a database DB in simple recovery mode with filegroups PRIMARY, A, B, and C. Each filegroup has a single file, PRIMARY.MDF, A.NDF, B.NDF, and C.NDF, respectively.
First, I run:
ALTER DATABASE [...
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SQL Server 2017 Enterprise vs Standard - Online Indexing and Online Schema Change
I read through Microsoft's "Editions and supported features of SQL Server 2017" doc to compare the feature differences between Enterprise and Standard edition.
Two things not available in Standard ...
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Decision concerning RAM limit
What steps would you do to be sure that STANDARD edition with its 128GB RAM limit is enough for your production?
My subjective feeling is that we are somehow on the edge and I am looking for strong ...
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Online index rebuild higher fragmentation on intermediate level
I need to rebuild some big indexes and I'm doing some tests with the various options (sort_in_tempdb, maxdop, online) of the ALTER INDEX statement on an test index with 4 levels and 800000 pages on ...
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SQL Server 2016 Enterprise poor performance
Sorry to be long, but I want to give you as much information as possible so that might be helpful to the analysis.
I know there are several posts with similar issues, however, I have already followed ...
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SQL Server Editions: Backup restore of Enterprise Edition 2014 on Standard Edition 2017
I know, this kind of question has already been answered some times but I don't find some current answers and wonder if SQL Server Standard Edition 2016 SP1 has changed something in the matter as it ...
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varchar(255) or varchar(256)?
Should I use varchar(255) or varchar(256) when designing tables? I've heard one byte is used for the length of column, or to store metadata.
Does it matter anymore at this point?
I saw some posts on ...
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Ship Standby Logs Without Datafiles
When building a new standby database, is it possible to have it start shipping archive logs from the primary without having the datafiles on the standby yet?
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Why is our SQL Server instance writing a mystery text file to our C: drive?
On a dev-test WINTEL server, our C: drive has almost run out of disk space due to a SQL.LOG file that is 133 GB in size. I used SysInternals Handle.exe tool to determine which process was writing this ...
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Can partitioning help speed up inserts on a very large table?
Some background:
SQL 2012 Enterprise
OLTP table currently at 1B records
records increase 5-10M per day
SAN lun with flash storage
two indexes (one clustered identity int)
What we have noticed is a ...
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Can SQL Server R Services be enabled on a readable secondary?
To avoid excess load on the primary SQL Server, I'd like to install and enable R Services on a secondary replica of the primary server. Is this possible?
Also, can I push computations from a remote R ...
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SQL Server R Services - Could not find stored procedure 'master..xp_ScaleR_init_job'
I'm trying to run a data science experiment as explained in this tutorial.
The tutorial has 5 lessons, and each lesson has a few sub-sections in it.
For this tutorial, I am using
a SQL Server 2016 ...
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Primary keys, clustered indexes and partitioning
We store data for financial records, splitting it up over 4 tables. I'm at a bit of a loss as to what's optimal for our setup here, or at least which direction to head in as I'm getting a lot of ...
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Finite State Machines in SQL
I'd like some input on an issue I'm having. We have a section of code that we repeat throughout our stored procedures, and every time it takes quite some time to process, and when combined the number ...
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Using Standard Edition for a VLDB
In order to save licensing costs I'm evaluating whether I can get away with Standard Edition for a VLDB. I'll outline the scenario:
Here, "VLDB" means 5TB.
The size is expected to be stable over time....
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Dropping historic Partitions that are no longer required while in P2P replication
The Company I work for has a set of databases (largest just below 1Tb) on different servers - 2 in the US, 2 in Europe.
We run full peer-to-peer replication per database between the 4 nodes - so they ...
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One time database shrink catch-22 solution?
I am developing a plan for SQL Server 2012 EE to properly downsize and type (nchar to char types) some needlessly Unicode nvarchar(max) fields and would like to optimize the database size as part of ...
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MySQL Enterprise Connector/PHP Plugin for php 5.4 [closed]
I'm trying to setup mysqlenterprise.so. I have installed the native driver and loaded before mysqlent, but when I try to start it I got:
Starting php-fpm: [14-Jul-2015 14:27:40] NOTICE: PHP message: ...
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Downgrade SQL Server Enterprise Edition to SQL Server Standard Edition
There is a requirement in our project where they want to evaluate if it is possible to downgrade SQL Server from Enterprise to Standard edition and if a server can be decommissioned.
How can I ...
