Microsoft's SQL Server is a relational database management system (RDBMS) that runs as a server providing multi-user access to a number of databases. This tag is for questions on the 2005 version
Questions tagged [sql-server-2005]
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What kind of values should I worry about in in sys.dm_os_wait_stats?
While reading Will disabling hyperthreading improve performance on our SQL Server install I started wondering what the values I get for Jeff's first query:
SELECT * FROM sys.dm_os_wait_stats
order by signal_wait_time_ms desc
Which gives me a…

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SQL Transaction log backups after Full SQL Backups
Environment:
VM with 20 gb of HD space and secondary hard drive with 3 gb.
Windows Server 2003 and Sql 2005
Backup Scenario:
Weekly Full backups with Backupexec
Nightly Diff. backups with Backupexec
Daily 15 min. log file backups maintenance…

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SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 2 - Failed Cluster Node
We have SQL server 2005 running on our cluster with Service Pack 2.
However one of the nodes failed, after rebuilding the node I added the node back to the clster with SQL server setup. However it gave me a warning that the version being installed…
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How can one use Reporting Services against a log shipped database?
Using MS SQL SERVER 2005. I have log shipped the ReportServer database to the secondary server in Standby/Readonly. I seem to be unable to use Reporting Services on the secondary database because it complains about the ReportServer database being…

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MSSQL2005 database hanging during maintenance
Our database server has a maintenance plan which runs each night:
Back up databases & logs (10-20GB max)
Check Database Integrity
Rebuild Indexes
Update Statistics
Normally this all executes in under a minute per database. However, in the last…

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Change the logical name of sql server express 2005 database file?
In Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio Express for Sql Server Express 2005, I needed to copy a database for testing and keep it on the same server as the old database. I did the following:
Right Click on Databases
Created new database
Detached…

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How can I tell if SP3 is installed for my SQL Server 2005 instance?
How can I tell if SP3 is installed for my SQL Server 2005 instance?

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Running two kinds of backup at the same time
I'm going to schedule a differential backup at 01AM and transaction log backup every one hour for a database. What will happen differential backup takes too long and transaction log backup starts while differential backup still running?
Also same…

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How to do a single backup of SQL Server 2005 Data for out of place restore?
My problem:
I got a virtual Windows XP machine with a specific database driven software installed using SQL Server 2005.
A similar machine is also in use by several customers. One customer reports an SQL Server error, which I cannot reproduce…

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is it possible to lower the priority of the replication process in sql server 2005
we're planning on running transactional replication of a part of our database for some near-time reporting.
I'm not quite sure which process will run to 'do' the replication, but is it possible to give this process a lower priority then sql server…

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How to change schedule of backup jobs using SQL Management Studio
I have an SQL Server 2005 on our lab network, I installed MS SQL Management studio on separate computer to connect to the SQL Server to schedule a backup job of a few database. It worked fine for the backup jobs as scheduled, my question is how am I…

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About sql server remote access
i am using sql server 2005.
my system is connected in network.
i want to give access to my sql server to specific person(IP) in the network and other persons should not access.
please solve this issue.
thanks in advance.
Cup Of Life
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Sending alerts with Database Mail
I've been looking into SQL Server alerts and it looks like I need to enable database mail on the server to be able to send e-mail alerts. The other solution appears to be to send those events to another server which already sends e-mail alerts (for…

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Login failed for user 'sa'. The user is not associated with a trusted SQL Server connection
Sql server is in Mixed Mode and I changed the user Password through Windows Authentication Mode from Security. After that when I try to connect the server it throw the error
TITLE: Connect to Server
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Cannot connect to…

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sqlserver not respond to query
My 2005sql server doesn't respond to the query sometime , and when I check the event I get the following event :
Auto grow of file "databasename_log" in database was cancelled by user or timeout after 30125 milliseconds . Use alter database to set a…

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