As a DBA we encounter situations when CPU is high on a DB server but DB is not consuming any CPU, we can see the processes consuming high CPU but don’t know how to identify that what process is doing causing issue and in cases where process is an encapsulated process like wscript.exe or any other system process we generally recommend server reboot but that generally washes out all logging; now as a DBA we […]

While deleting a task in task manager, received following error reported by my team,   Error: “transaction support within the specified resource manager is not started or was shutdown due to an error”     We tried multiple options to modify job and delete but nothing worked, On further google search found that issue is similar to found on following forum,   http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-performance/transaction-support-within-the-specified-resource/fba64f34-4c16-4551-82d7-f22169be0d97?auth=1   Executed following command on server, fsutil resource setautoreset true c:\   […]

Came across a unique issue on a friend’s laptop where he has high resolution screen but when trying to remote desktop any server then the remote server also inheriting the same resolution and text looks very small, MSTSC settings, desktop resolution settings, etc. everything is tried what possible but it didn’t fixed the issue. To resolve this, he found following solution to fix. Note: I am writing this post to keep a record of this […]

While re-installing SQL server, got below error,       To fix this execute below commands with elevated access in command prompt so that permissions get applied to respective path,   Eg: takeown /F c:\Windows\system32\drivers /D y /R    In our scenario commands are provided below:   Here path is “F:” which is a parent folder.   takeown /F F: /D y /R   cacls F: /E /T /C /G “<<<user_AD_account_name>>>“:F

When you try to open a text or some kind of text based log file of size in GB’s say 51GB in NOTEPAD or NOTEPAD++ or WORDPAD, you will get following error,     Now the question is how to read or edit such large file, answer is,   1. If you are just interested in reading it page by page without impacting any CPU or memory, the do following, Start > Run > type […]

I have written several batch files to automate activities in SQL Server environment and send HTML reports over email on completion; but whenever SQL Server is down or server is unavailable then the HTML output get disturbed as no error handling is being done. When tried to write error handling to fix the issue, faced trouble as was using following code as part of an error handling,   FOR /F “tokens=1,2 delims=,” %%G in (%CD%\SQLServerList_SQLReport.txt) […]

Robocopy is very useful Microsoft provided utility and it comes preinstalled in SQL Server 2008 onwards and can be installed via rktools.exe toolkit in Windows Server 2003 (link)   You can check if Robocopy is installed or not via opening command prompt as, Run>CMD> <type Robocopy /?> If it shows parameter list then Robocopy is installed on your system else download and install (if you are not allowed to install anything on your server, then […]

If you are working with remote computer and see that ctrl^C and ctrl^V (i.e. copy paste) is not working then culprit can be clipboard or remoteclip or ASC, please find below solution to fix these issues, How to Clear Clipboard in Windows How to Clear Clipboard on Windows XP: Click the “Start” button and enter “Clipbrd” into the “Run” field. A record of recent clipboard content will appear. Select “Edit” from the top of the […]

Today while writing script I need to echo output to an html file using batch file, so requirement is, I need to insert a break and then text in center of email, text as “—————–Database Report———————-“, now to do this you need to use carrot, see below, My batch script looks like, SET currentdirectory=%CD% echo ^<BR^> > “%CD%\output.htm” echo ^<center^>^———–Database Report————–^</center^> >> “%CD%\output.htm”     Hope it helps!   Reference: http://forums.devshed.com/other-programming-languages-139/echo-html-in-a-batch-file-339368.html

There are many applications which use these system dll for e.g. BMC client, etc., if you see these dll’s missing error then follow below tip, 1. Download both dll’s from this link: http://www.addictivetips.com/windows-tips/fix-msvcp71-dll-and-msvcr71-dll-missing-error-in-windows-7/ or you can use someone else system and copy these dll’s as well (if available) Note: Although it is not recommended method to download dll from third party website to avoid any damage to system, but personally I have used above link […]