Questions tagged [sql-server]
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Unable to drop file group because it is not empty
I am unable to delete a filegroup. I am getting the standard error: "The filegroup '~~~~' cannot be removed because it is not empty." I have been searching the internet, and still cannot ...
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Best Way to search for a string containing a letter or a word in SQL Server (Full Contains Search)
I have a requirement where I need to search a few columns in the table to see if the letter or word passed in as parameter is contained in any of those columns and return the first 100 rows. For ...
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Ordering on two columns is less efficient than order on only the first, why?
I have a table that stores transactions for accounts, and I want to select out the latest transaction for a specific account. But the DB (Azure SQL) seems to fetch all transactions for the account, ...
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Determining the overlap between payments and invoices
Given a table containing a list of invoices and a table containing a list of payments, I have the following problem:
Payments should be allocated to invoices up to the total amount of the invoice.
If ...
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How to use the same Azure SQL VM in two different Load Balancers
I have already configured always on availability group between VM1 and VM2 azure machines. Internal Load Balancer was created for these two VMs and mapped to AG Listener. VM2 is used for read workload ...
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SQL Server - Will a blocked REDO thread cause further blocking on readable secondary replica?
I understand that a redo thread replaying a DDL operation can be blocked by a long-running SELECT query on readable secondary replica because the latter holds a Sch-S lock thus preventing the former ...
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Whether to fix orphan using alter user or sp_change_users_login?
What is the correct way to fix orphan user:
sp_change_users_login @Action='update_one',
@UserNamePattern='TestUser1',
@LoginName='TestUser1'
Or
ALTER USER TestUser1 WITH LOGIN=TestUser1
Both fix ...
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Enable Azure SQL DAC (Dedicated Admin Connection)
This page claims that you can connect to Azure SQL with a Dedicated Admin Connection (DAC but not Data-tier Application): https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/database-engine/configure-windows/...
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SSAS Backup to Remote Location
I followed the steps in the best answer on this question - How can I dynamically back up all SSAS databases on a given instance? - and can successfully create backups of our BI Cubes to a local drive ...
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How to merge staging data in a specific order when the target table has foreign keys
I am trying to modularize the merging of staging data for our branches.
Currently, I get an export file (zip) from our system supplier once per day per branch (50+ branches). Via a series of Azure ...
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Linked Servers and Application Intent
I'm attempting to improve performance of a set of views that we have on a local server, pulling data from another set of views on a remote Azure database.
Our system provider advised us to use ...
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SQL Server listening port not showing in errorlog
Does any one know why the port my SQL Server is listening on would not be recorded in my errorlog? TCP/IP is enabled and default listening port 1433 configured.
I have this issue on two servers:
one ...
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What's the issue with keeping a SQL Server login's default database as 'master'
I've read recommendations to switch non-sysadmins login's default database to something other than master. Tempdb is often recommended.
If a login/user has no permissions by default for their default ...
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DENSE_RANK with distinct columns after filter
I find myself needing to get the most recent N things accessed by each user, and I have a log table of all accesses. Something like
CREATE TABLE [AccessLog] ([UserId] UNIQUEIDENTIFIER, [ThingId] ...
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When total_pages column in sys.allocation_units does updates?
I have a table in database that which its size has been grew 15TB in a month. In order to doing further investigation I used this query to find out which column has used more pages.
SELECT SUM(...
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Is there any risk with re-using sid from 1 sql server on multiple other sql servers when creating the same login?
I'm setting up a sql login on a prod AG server. And creating it with same sid on the secondary AG node.
We also need this user on other prod standalone SQL servers, AG SQL servers, and dev sql servers....
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DBCC ShrinkDatabase is increasing my file size
Yesterday, I asked a question about how to reduce the size of a database. The community suggested using the command dbcc shrinkdatabase. I followed their advice and ran the command for over 24 hours. ...
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SQL Server merge datetime rows in one row and splits when values of other columns change
I'm trying to create a view in SQL which merge start datetime and last datetime and splits when value column changed knowing that the value of the date difference is not fixed. For example I have a ...
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In a sync AG, does flow control mode cause blocking on primary or lag in sending commit to client application?
When we are in “Flow Control” mode, sending of log block messages from
the Primary to the Secondary is paused until out of flow control mode.
Link: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/core-...
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Is it safe to configure Lock Escalation as 'AUTO' for partitioned tables
LOCK_ESCALATION= AUTO.
In one of our Data warehousing product we use partitioned tables. They are partitioned based on an integer column. We have implemented partitioning here so we can easily switch ...
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Temp table with less number of rows results in Clustered Index Seek Whereas more rows result in Clustered Index Scan - SQL Server
I have the following table and data:
CREATE TABLE myTable (
ID INT IDENTITY(1,1) PRIMARY KEY,
Column1 VARCHAR(50),
Column2 VARCHAR(50),
Column3 VARCHAR(50),
Column4 VARCHAR(50),
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Trace what is calling a trigger? Extended Events Question
Good morning all - I have a monitoring software that is showing one of my audit triggers is firing 1+ million times an hour, when I look at the audit tables there are about 3000 records entered - The ...
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How does memory assignment to a NVARCHAR(max) variable work? [duplicate]
I have inherited a system where stored procedures have their variables declared as NVARCHAR(MAX):
DECLARE @test_variable NVARCHAR(max);
SET @test_variable = N'.....'
EXECUTE sp_executesql @...
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How should I handle index maintenance on partitioned tables in Azure SQL DB?
let's start saying that i have no experience with partitioned tables and i'm not quite sure how to handle index maintenance (periodically Rebuild / Reorganize, if needed, to reduce index fragmentation)...
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What is the quickest and most efficient way to remove an in-memory filegroup from a large SQL Server 2019 database?
I have a database with an in-memory filegroup that I want to remove (I won't go into many details why, but I want to move the database to another place without this filegroup).
I'm trying to move the ...
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What is the quickest and most efficient way to remove an in-memory filegroup from a large SQL Server 2019 database? [duplicate]
I have a database with a in-memory filegroup that I want to remove (I wont go into much details why, but I want to move the database to another place without this filegroup).
Notes:
This is running ...
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question regarding count function
I have a table with states and counties.
When I run my count looking for counties, it only returns one column
I would like to output the state for the corresponding county:
SELECT county,
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Joining two SELECT queries are not joining into a new table
I have two queries pulling information from the same schema which I am joining together to create a single table. However, I need one of the resulting columns. In the example below I need the second '...
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sys.indexes contains a row per index or heap of a tabular object - what does it mean?
I know a HEAP is a table without a clustered index. But I'm not quite clear on the following definition from sys.indexes.
I understand that this system view contains row per index of a tabular object. ...
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How to remove or disable SQL Telemetry (sqlceip)
I have SQL 2019 Enterprise Edition patched to CU18 installed on a 2-node Windows 2022 cluster and configured with an Availability Group. I have been investigating an unusual and persistent behaviour ...
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Which Intelligent query processing features are available in the Enterprise Edition only?
Many features have been released starting from SQL Server 2017 to SQL Server 2022 as part of the 'Intelligent query processing' family. Which ones are Enterprise only, and which are available in the ...
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Is there a reliable way to check if a trigger being fired was the result of a DML action from another *specific* trigger?
Is there any way to tell from within a trigger, when it gets fired, that it is being fired as the result of a DML action that occurred within another specific trigger?
Any chance any information about ...
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MSSQL: Select records where updated_at-created_at > 2 minutes
Is there a way to select all rows of which created_at (datetime) - updated_at (datetime) > 2 minutes ?
I used something like this but the diff is in bigint and not reliable:
SELECT TOP (1000)
[...
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sp_Who2 is throwing an error when executed against AAG secondary replica
I am getting following error while trying to execute sp_Who2 or select * from sys.processes against the master database of AlwaysOn secondary replica.
I am using master database but it is still ...
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Do newer versions of SQL Server optimize queries using variables in stored procedures instead of 'magic numbers'?
Do newer versions of SQL Server (after SQL Server 2017) optimize the queries in the stored procedures that use variables instead of the so called "magic numbers"?
E.g. Instead of using
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Fastest way to get a intrinsic cartesian product of grouped data
Consider table:
CREATE TABLE dbo.DIMENSIONS (
dim_order int,
dim_name varchar(50),
member_key varchar(50)
)
SELECT * FROM dbo.DIMENSIONS
dim_order dim_name member_key
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Missing Stored Procedures in Linked Server view within SSMS
Why am I unable to see Stored Procedures or functions when I open a Linked Server in SSMS? I have created the Linked Server and can see the databases, but within each database, only tables and views ...
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SQL "Data Migration Assistant" Hang
I used DMA to migrate database from SQL 2014 to SQL 2019.
Initially, DMA run normally and I recommended to my colleague.
After some days, I found DMA running on my PC is slow/hang but DMA can run ...
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SQL Server resource governor classifier function
I am in the process of creating a RG classifier function. I have already implemented this in a system where in I validate incoming sessions against only 1 login.
Now I am planning to implement below ...
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Waiting until the AOG secondary node is in sync
I'm helping ETL developers on offloading some SSIS workload from the SQL Server AOG primary node to the asynchronous secondary one.
The challenge comes when they need to write tables in the primary ...
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Should statistics be updated manually?
I'm currently considering using Ola Hallengren's Index Maintenance solution to update statistics once a day. What is the benefit of this solution if a database has AUTO_UPDATE_STATISTICS set to on?
I'...
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How to copy a database to another server with only some of the rows
Trying to copy a database from a hosted server to a local server for testing purposes and am trying to avoid exporting the whole database as a .bacpac file as there are some tables with tens, maybe ...
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CDC Error - NULL Source Schema and Source Table - Error msg on both enable and disable table
Today I re-enabled CDC on the primary node of an availability group. When the jobs were created the cleanup job failed with the following error:
Could not delete change table entries made obsolete ...
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Migrate of Encrypt Columns from SQL Server 2005 To 2019 RDS AWS
good morning,
Perform a migration of an On Premise database:
Microsoft SQL Server 2005 - 9.00.5000.00 (X64) Dec 10, 2010 10:38:40 Copyright (c) 1988-2005 Microsoft Corporation Enterprise Edition (64-...
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Completed Query still blocking?
I ran into an issue in SSMS on a server running SQL Server 2017 where I had ran a query to update the owners of databases, and the query messages tab said that the query completed successfully. ...
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How to CONCAT Custom String ONLY into Column Names of Joined Table
I have these two tables company.tbl:
COMPANY_ID
COMPANY_NAME
COMPANY_CITY
and foods.tbl
ITEM_ID
ITEM_NAME
ITEM_UNIT
COMPANY_ID
I need to add _foo, only to the end of all joined columns from foods....
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Disable ALL indexes on a table in SQL Server without Warning messages
Occasionally we need to perform bulk updates on certain tables and the indexes that help the database perform smoothly in normal use become a hindrance. So we disable all the indexes on such a table, ...
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Why the following first of two queries in MSSQL is faster as I want the second one?
1st Query: result 32 seconds (1,758,220 rows)
SELECT
CAST(ID.PYYY AS varchar(8))+','+
CAST(ID.SYYY AS varchar(8))+','+
(
SELECT TOP 1 (
CAST(IMM.INVOICE_DATE1 AS varchar(8))+','+
CAST(...
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SQL to check if a certain time duration occurs within a particular period of the day
I'm working with data that has a start datetime and end datetime column for each event which can be a short period of time
(Few hours) up to a number of days in duration.
I'm trying to establish a way ...
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