Posts Categorized: SQL Server

Check URL Status from SQL Server

One of our clients has a public web page and they needed to ensure that it is always up and accessible. Pythian already has a monitoring stack that includes website and pages monitoring. I wondered if this could be done from SQL Server using built-in Windows modules to access external web resources. There are various the methods we can use.

Perl and Server Management Objects (SMO)?

I had an opportunity over the past few days to attempt to use Microsoft’s Server Management Objects (SMO) with Perl to manage a SQL Server 2005 DB. To make a long story into a short post, I blundered into the Win32::CLR module on CPAN, a little gem from Toshiyuki Yamato. Here is all you need to get started.

SQL Server: More light shed on “non-yielding scheduler” and Indexes stats

Here is a must-read whitepaper describing SQL Server Scheduling and how to interpret and diagnose Errors 17883, 17884, 17887, and 17888; please look here How To Diagnose and Correct Errors 17883, 17884, 17887, and 17888. We had a client having same issue. The client runs a busy online business with thousands of connected users; databases sometimes include more than half a million tables. We had a healthy counters and server didn’t seem to suffer from memory or I/O bottlenecks. We did suspect, that it is something to do with SQL Server internals, as we also received fatal exceptions pertaining to SPIDs <50 (system processes). If you face similar issues, you should install the latest service pack and cumulative update, and check if you have any resource bottlenecks. You can try trace T2330 as well, and if you still get errors or dumps, then you had better open a case with Microsoft Support to analyze the dumps and provide a resolution.

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