Questions tagged [sql-server-2017]
SQL Server 2017 (major build version 14.00.xxxx). Please also tag sql-server.
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An error occurred during service master key initialization (sql error log)
I have migrated sql server 2017 to new hardware. The sql error log shows following error log whenever the sql server service is restarted.
An error occurred during service master key initialization
I ...
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How to test whether current sql engine service account can decrypt the SMK?
Is it true that when the sql service account is changed via the config manager then the new account can decrypt the SMK.
However if the change was made via the services.msc, then the new account doesn'...
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How to deal with encryption keys during a migration?
I am migrating sql server 2017 to another hardware. I have backed up the system dbs, user dbs and restored it on the destination.
Now I am reading about the concept of service master key which is ...
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Error when trying to setup the ssisdb on new server (An error occurred during service master key decryption)
I have an SQL server 2017 ssisdb backup and password that was used when creating the catalog.
I have restored db on a new server (same sql version) by following the steps given here: https://docs....
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After a server OS drive crash, how to restore user dbs after restoring the system dbs? [duplicate]
Assuming sql server OS drive crashes and data/log files are safe in their own drives.
I installed sql server with same version on a new machine. Then I restore the system databases (master, msdb, ...
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Row_number to not increment if values on three columns are the same from the row before
Suppose I have a dataset that looks like the screenshot below and I need to add a count column for the rows based off the orderid, DocumentNo_, and CurrPackageTrackingNo with the following logic:
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Excel header columns changes when export data from sql server to Excel using pandas?
I work on sql server 2017 I run script depend on python language .
I run script on sql server 2017 to export data from sql server 2017 to Excel file already exist.
header of excel file before export ...
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SQLCONNECTIONPOOL growing very huge
One of my db server SQLCONNECTIONPOOL growing very huge,it consumed 55GB , out of 65Gb (sql MAX) memory)
Environment: Microsoft SQL Server 2017 (RTM-CU25) Standard Edition
How can i reduce the ...
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SQL Server 2017 transaction log does not shrink logfile after rebuild index [closed]
I have 10GB database and i have configured transaction log shipping.
My rebuild indexes job executed indexes fillfactor changed from 100 to 70 and transaction logfile has growth 60GB.
I have tried so ...
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I need help with fixing this query please!
I need to figure out what is wrong with this query. I get this error when running the query: "Msg 8169, Level 16, State 2, Line 1
Conversion failed when converting from a character string to ...
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error [Microsoft][ODBC Driver Manager] Data source name not found and no default driver specified when import excel data to sql server
I work on SQL server 2017 I need to import data from excel 2016 to sql server 2017
I using python script to do that
I create odbc and success test with name Testserver
path G:\ImportExportExcel have ...
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Avoiding Hash match to improve CPU usage for a specific query
We are trying to resolve or figure out change in plan for one of the top sql queries by CPU.
This query we have found (it's a vendor-based product) which unfortunately I do not have access to extract ...
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Issues with differential backup on random days
We are having a very weird issue with our backups related to differential backup for one of VLDB around 10 TB.
We run once a full backup every Monday and differential on remaining days. We do on ...
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How do you manage your data retention Table cleanup routine
How do you manage table clean up when you have multiple tables that have different retention policies and FK Parent-Child relationships? Originally I had a table that had different delete statements (...
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SQL Server-- Calculating Optimal Number of CPU Cores
We're soon going to rebuild the SQL Server running our production ERP. Our SAN Admin issued me the following challenge:
Assume I could give you as many Intel Xeon Gold 6240 CPU @ 2.6 GHz cores as you ...
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Planning for application upgrade which connects to SQL server database
I am looking for some advise/guidance on how to achieve this with minimum downtime and possibly avoid any errors or failure during production change-
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We have SQL database servers ...
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Should my company upgrade from Enterprise 2017 to sql server 2019? [closed]
Our production server is currently running SQL Enterprise 2017.
We're paying for software assurance which means we can upgrade at any time.
Should we be looking at SQL 2019?
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Maintenance plan run date wrong
Win server 2019 & SQL Server 2017
On Jan 28th, 2022, I setup 3 maintenance plans to backup 3 databases from 3:00AM – 3:40AM. The last one finishes at 3:45AM. For a few weeks I confirmed that I am ...
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How to write select statment that get data based on partid from last date to current date with filling gapes?
I work on sql server 2012 i face issue i can't make select statment get Partid from last month until current month march (3) .
based on last date exist per partid
and on same time if there are any ...
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Help syntax for Stored Procedure to INsert/Update records from 1 table into another [duplicate]
I am trying to create a stored procedure to insert or update records from 1 table into another table and I am having several syntax issues.
it does not like the @MergeLog declaration
it errors on ...
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when update large table it take too much time to update
I work on sql server 2019
when update table Z2DataCore.parts.SourcingNotMappedParts i found slow and long time when update
estimated execution plan
actual execution plan
Update statement takes 26.5 ...
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when make select to top 5 of rows from table it take too much time?
I work on sql server 2019 i face issue when make select top 5 rows it take too much time .
Number of Rows on Table Z2DataCore.parts.SourcingNotMappedParts 70 milion rows .
when run statment select ...
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How to get partnumber that have at least have one source type Website and at least one stockid equal 1 Based on PartNumber?
I work on sql server 2017 i face issue i can't get partnumber
that have at least source type website and at least have stockid equal 1 per partnumber
so with another meaning i need to get part numers ...
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Archiving Historical Data
Right now on Production, for deleting historical data, used a script which is manually run in SSMS.
Script deletes batches of 100 rows from Table1 where [Date] between [Start] and [End] in a looped ...
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Error communicating between BxlServer and client
have been trying to upgrade SQL server 2017 to run Python 3.7. We have installed CU28 and the product version is 14.0.3430.2 which includes the C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL14....
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SQL Server query consolidating each database file data in to one row
I have this Dataset base of this query below
SELECT DB_NAME() AS dbname , size/128 AS 'Total Size in MB',
size/128.0 - CAST(FILEPROPERTY(name, 'SpaceUsed') AS int)/128.0 AS 'Available Space In MB', ...
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Why is statistics update slower on a clustered columnstore than on a rowstore?
I've moved several large tables (each with >10^9 rows and a couple of dozens columns) from clustered rowstore to clustered columnstore indexes on a SQL Server 2014 instance and noticed that ...
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Unable to Install SQL 2017 CU 28
I am in the process of upgrading our SQL 2017 servers to the current CU. I have ran across two systems that won't allow me to apply the update. In the SQL installer, I see below text when I click on ...
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Product Version for Analysis Services and Report Server using T SQL
How can I find the product version for both analysis services and report server using Transact-SQL?
I'm trying to put together a query that will get me the details of each SQL instance with their ...
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What would make an append-only table remain in the buffer cache in SQL Server
We have a table that is pretty much append-only. It's not overly huge (~4M rows, ~1.4GB data)
It's the largest object in the buffer cache, consuming ~1.4GB of data.
The SQL Server is busy, but appears ...
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Why are both log file being written at the same time
I have a strange situation and I would like to get someone else taught.
I have a database that have 2 log files (I know, it should not and I plan of fixing it soon).
Now for what I know, log file are ...
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Controlling permissions for app team while assigning them ALTER ANY AG access
There is a need where we our DEV team needs to make index changes and run other index maintenance jobs on the primary replica. We have seen that while this happens, there is a blocking chain created ...
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Is it possible to add a column to a partition in a partitioned table?
I have a large partitioned table of 16 billion plus records. I am currently updating one of the columns to NULL using the partition number. The process is cumbersome in that it takes a lot of time to ...
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Non-yielding scheduler error in large memory server if the lock pages in memory option is disabled
We are seeing a lot of Non-yielding scheduler errors on a SQL Server VM. Reading this link on Microsoft Docs, it's recommended we enable Lock Pages in Memory.
I do not have much experience with Lock ...
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Adding new column to clustered column store indexed table
I designing clustered column store indexed fact tables.
Later on many new columns might be added to these currently ~90 columns tables.
How adding new nullable column is affected by the size (number ...
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Retention not working on temporal table or very slow?
I have a table with retention set to 25 months (from today is 2019-12-19) but when I query the validfrom/validTo dates directly in the history table, I see records with ValidTo dates before that. We ...
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MS Sql Server link a database level role to a server level role
I have created a server/instance level role called ReadOnly and assigned a user (windows based login) to it.
Now i'm trying to add a database level role with the same name where i can grant ...
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WHEN run query on SQL Server, it is very slow. How to solve execution plan issues?
I work with SQL Server and face an issue that a query is very slow.
INSERT INTO [ExtractReports].[dbo].[TradeCodesDelete] (PartID,
Code,
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How can Temp Table creation time be reduced in terms of CPU time?
Inside a frequently executed stored procedure (sometimes up to 10-15 times per second), there are two particular statements that show up in Top 10 heaviest queries by cumulative CPU impact
These are ...
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SQL Server 2017 - "SQL Server Assertion:" Error
I'm encountering a scenario very similar to this:
SQL 2016 SQL Server Assertion: File: <pageref.cpp>, line=951 Failed Assertion
With more or less the same error text:
SQL Server Assertion: File:...
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Select records based on priority
I have data stored as:
TestId | Priority |
--------+-----+-----
test103 | 2 |
test104 | 2 |
test105 | 1 |
test106 | 0 |
test107 | 1 |
test108 | 2 |
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AG failover successful, but old Primary node thinks its still primary after bringing back online
I am doing some testing on SQL 2017 Availability Groups and have the following setup:
1 SQL Clustered instance on a 2-node WSFC in DC1
1 standalone SQL node in DC2
There is 1 AG, containing 3 DBs, ...
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CPU cores and sys.dm_os_workers
We recently failed over our AOAG cluster to a secondary region. In the first region, our boxes had 32 cores while in the secondary region, we have 64 cores. Traffic is similar, however on the larger ...
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Insert Into Table performance questions
I am writing a stored procedure, main purpose of it will be the insertion into table
Procedure will be signed by certificate, and sending email notifications
Procedure will accept user-defined table-...
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SQL Server 2017; Memory troubleshooting; There is insufficient system memory in resource pool 'internal' to run this query
We are running a local SQL Server 2017 to support a datawarehouse database. The database is loaded on a schedule through SSIS largely through the use of staging tables and the MERGE function. Recently,...
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Which areas need checking prior to decommissioning a windows account so that there are no issues?
I am looking at decommissioning a service account (windows account).
Before that I want to ensure that there are no dependencies on this account from any sql server areas. I have already checked under:...
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Why does log not get generated when the SQL maintenance plan job fails to execute (agent job history shows job failed)?
In maintenance plan, under the reporting and logging setting I have configured a text file report to be generated and email report. This gets generated and I receive an email every time the ...
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Does the maintenance plan or the notify operator task support failure notification?
I want to notify an operator upon failure of the maintenance plan.
I know that I can configure the alerts via the agent job. But I am looking to configure the alert in the maintenance plan itself. I ...
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How to change the maintenance plan owner in SQL server?
I have configured a maintenance plan to run every day at 7am. This has automatically created the sql agent job and schedule.
I want to change the job owner to a different user. I cannot see any UI to ...
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Using ADONET SqlClient library how to access the plain-text value of an encrypted column in SQL Server?
In a SQL Server 2017 database running on my development PC, a column in a particular table is encrypted with a column encryption key.
CREATE TABLE Test(
id int IDENTITY(1,1) NOT NULL PRIMARY ...
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