SQL Reporting database (SSRS) moving/migration- note

Back Up and Restore Reporting Services Encryption Keys An important part of report server configuration is creating a backup copy of the symmetric key used for encrypting sensitive information. A backup copy of the key is required for many routine operations, and enables you to reuse an existing report server database in a new installation.

refer to the above link for how to back up and restore reporting services encryption keys.

Moving the Report Server Databases

Both the reportserver and reportservertempdb databases must be moved or copied together

• Schedules will be recreated the first time that you restart the Report Server service.
• SQL Server Agent jobs that are used to trigger a schedule will be recreated on the new database instance. You do not have to move the jobs to the new computer, but you might want to delete jobs on the computer that will no longer be used.
• Subscriptions, cached reports, and snapshots are preserved in the moved database. If a snapshot is not picking up refreshed data after the database is moved, clear the snapshot options in Report Manager, click Apply to save your changes, re-create the schedule, and click Apply again to save your changes.
• Temporary report and user session data that is stored in reportservertempdb are persisted when you move that database.

 refer to the above link for more information

Create the RSExecRole

Information from the article
Reporting Services uses a predefined database role called RSExecRole to grant report server permissions to the report server database. The RSExecRole role is created automatically with the report server database. As a rule, you should never modify it or assign other users to the role. However, when you move a report server database to a new or different SQL Server Database Engine, must re-create the role in the Master and MSDB system databases.

The article has instruction how to re-create the role in the Master and MSDB system databases using SSMS gui

The below scripts copy from the above article for my reference

use [master]
GRANT EXECUTE ON [sys].[xp_sqlagent_enum_jobs] TO [RSExecRole]
GRANT EXECUTE ON [sys].[xp_sqlagent_is_starting] TO [RSExecRole]
GRANT EXECUTE ON [sys].[xp_sqlagent_notify] TO [RSExecRole]
use [msdb]
GRANT EXECUTE ON [dbo].[sp_add_jobschedule] TO [RSExecRole]
GRANT EXECUTE ON [dbo].[sp_add_jobserver] TO [RSExecRole]
GRANT EXECUTE ON [dbo].[sp_verify_job_identifiers] TO [RSExecRole]
GRANT EXECUTE ON [dbo].[sp_add_jobstep] TO [RSExecRole]
GRANT EXECUTE ON [dbo].[sp_help_jobschedule] TO [RSExecRole]
GRANT EXECUTE ON [dbo].[sp_add_category] TO [RSExecRole]
GRANT EXECUTE ON [dbo].[sp_help_job] TO [RSExecRole]
GRANT EXECUTE ON [dbo].[sp_add_job] TO [RSExecRole]
GRANT EXECUTE ON [dbo].[sp_help_category] TO [RSExecRole]
GRANT EXECUTE ON [dbo].[sp_delete_job] TO [RSExecRole]
GRANT SELECT ON [dbo].[syscategories] TO [RSExecRole]
GRANT SELECT ON [dbo].[sysjobs] TO [RSExecRole]  

Inline and Multi-Statement Table-Valued Functions

Reference for Inline and Multi-Statement Table-valued Functions

http://www.sqlservercentral.com/blogs/discussionofsqlserver/2012/02/15/comparing-inline-and-multistatement-table-valued-functions/

Sunday T-SQL Tip: Inline vs. Multi-statement Table Valued Functions

SQL 2016 CTP3 testing

Time to testing SQL 2016 new features
1. Download SQL 2016 CTP3 3.2 with evaluation version
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/evaluate-sql-server-2016

2. Setup Hyper-V
http://soonyu-sql.blogspot.my/2012/12/70-462-virtual-server-preparation.html

3. Install SQL 2016 in Virtual Server

4. download SQL 2016 testing database and database
https://msftdbprodsamples.codeplex.com/releases/view/618193

5. Restore AdventureWorks2016CTP3 database
    Download file (AdventureWorks2016CTP3.bak & AdventureWorksDW2016CTP3.bak) from
     step 4

6. Going to test the below features with the demo script from step 4
    Always Encrypted           
    Clustered Columnstore Index
    Data Masking               
    In-Memory OLTP             
    JSON                  
    PolyBase                  
    Row-Level Security        
    Query Store               
    Stretch DB             
    Temporal Tables     

Error: 17049, Severity: 16, State: 1. DBCC ErrorLog fail

DBCC ERRORLOG

Error: 17049, Severity: 16, State: 1.
Unable to cycle error log file from 'D:\MSSQL10_50.MSSQLSERVER\MSSQL\Log\ERRORLOG' to 'D:\MSSQL10_50.MSSQLSERVER\MSSQL\Log\ERRORLOG.1' due to OS error '32(The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process.)'. A process outside of SQL Server may be preventing SQL Server from reading the files. As a result, errorlog entries may be lost and it may not be possible to view some SQL Server errorlogs. Make sure no other processes have locked the file with write-only access."

SELECT *
 FROM sys.dm_exec_requests a
 OUTER APPLY sys.dm_exec_sql_text(a.sql_handle) b
 WHERE session_id > 50
 and session_id <> @@spid AND( text = 'xp_readerrorlog'  OR  text = 'sp_cycle_errorlog')
 ORDER BY start_time


kill the spid


rerun DBCC ERRORLOG and it successful


reference : Unable to cycle error log due to lock that will not clear

SQLAgent - TSQL JobStep (Job % to SQL Job Name

SQLAgent - TSQL JobStep (Job % to SQL Job Name



select sp.program_name
from
sys.dm_exec_requests req
left join sys.sysprocesses sp on sp.spid=req.session_id
where (req.session_id>50 or req.session_id is null) and req.session_Id NOT IN (@@SPID)
order by logical_reads




go


program_name
SQLAgent - TSQL JobStep (Job 0x8BF803BD5BFFD3448392075F1E82E037 : Step 1)


what is the job name that execute?


SELECT CASE
   WHEN RTRIM([program_name]) LIKE 'SQLAgent - TSQL JobStep (Job %' THEN J.Name
   ELSE RTRIM([program_name])
  END ProgramName
  , Val1.UqID
  , Val1.UqIDStr
FROM sys.sysProcesses P
  CROSS APPLY
   (
   VALUES (
     CASE
      WHEN RTRIM([program_name]) LIKE 'SQLAgent - TSQL JobStep (Job %' THEN
       CAST(
        SUBSTRING(RTRIM([program_name]), 32, 8) + '-' +
        SUBSTRING(RTRIM([program_name]), 40, 4) + '-' +
        SUBSTRING(RTRIM([program_name]), 44, 4) + '-' +
        SUBSTRING(RTRIM([program_name]), 48, 4) + '-' +
        SUBSTRING(RTRIM([program_name]), 52, 12)
       AS uniqueidentifier)
      ELSE NULL
     END ,
     CASE
      WHEN RTRIM([program_name]) LIKE 'SQLAgent - TSQL JobStep (Job %' THEN
       CAST(CONVERT(VARBINARY(MAX),'0x' + SUBSTRING(RTRIM([program_name]), 32, 32),1) AS uniqueidentifier)
      ELSE NULL
     END
     )
   ) Val1(UqID, UqIDStr)
  OUTER APPLY
   (
   SELECT DISTINCT Name
   FROM MSDB.dbo.SysJobs
   WHERE CAST(Job_ID AS varchar(50)) = Val1.UqIDStr
     OR Job_ID =  Val1.UqID
     OR CAST(Job_ID AS varchar(50)) = Val1.UqID
   ) J
WHERE RTRIM([program_name]) ='SQLAgent - TSQL JobStep (Job 0x8BF803BD5BFFD3448392075F1E82E037 : Step 1)'  




Extract from
http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic1648616-392-1.aspx

Sharepoint in SQL AGL intermittent timeout

Quote:
Intermittent, unusually high latency might occur when you use availability groups that have replicas that are deployed on multiple subnets.
As a best practice, connections to SharePoint availability groups in a multi-subnet environment should configure specifyMultiSubnetFailover=True to avoid issues caused by high network latency. For more information, see Supporting Availability Group Multi-Subnet Failovers.



Below should run in Sharepoint application server each time create / recreate sharepoint site to make sure multisubnetfailover keyword in add into sharepoint connection string

$dbs = Get-SPDatabase | ?{$_.MultiSubnetFailover -ne $true}
     foreach ($db in $dbs)
     {
          $db.MultiSubnetFailover = $true
           $db.Update()
     }

Reference :
Configure SQL Server 2012 AlwaysOn Availability Groups for SharePoint 2013

SQL 2014 in-memory Learning reference

 Accelerating Application Performance and Gaining Insights with the Microsoft Data Platform

SQL Server In_Memory OLTP Internals Overview

In-Memory nonclustered index for memory optimized tables ?

SQL 2014 Hash index


Guidelines for Using Indexes on Memory-Optimized Tables


Memory-Optimized Tables


Requirements for Using Memory-Optimized Tables

Transact-SQL Constructs Not Supported by In-Memory OLTP

Video
 Microsoft SQL Server 2014: In-Memory OLTP Overview
Microsoft SQL Server 2014: In-Memory OLTP for Database Administrators

Channel 9
In-Memory
SQL Server 2014 In-memory OLTP Logging

SQL daily HealthCheck - My Reference

SQL daily Healthcheck

CPU - System CPU, SQL CPU, max CPU, avg CPU
SQL Log Size > 40%? -dbcc sqlperf(LOGSPACE)
SQL Connection  - How many connection
SQL Active Connection
Blocking ? any blocking, what is the blocking header?
Deadlock?  any deadlock?
Long Run Queries? 
Any SQL Job fail?
Last IO Error?
SQL Error log that need attention
DB Size 
Disk size
SQL 2005 - mirroring status
SQL 2012/SQL 2014/SQL 2016 : AGL Status

SQL Related error

SQL IO related error
1. check SQL Server error log
2. Check OS application error log
3. Check if all the drive on line and writeable
4. Try restart SQL Server if drive back online


OS Application Log
Event ID :833
Source    : MSSQLSERVER
SQL Server has encountered <n> occurrence(s) of I/O requests taking longer than 15 seconds to complete on file [<full path of file>] in database [<database name.>] (<dbid>). The OS file handle is <file handle>. The offset of the latest long I/O is: <offset in hexadecimal>
SQL Server logs "Msg 833" when I/O delay problems occur

Event ID : 17053
SQLServerLogMgr::LogWriter: Operating system error 1167(The device is not connected.) encountered.

Event ID :3314
During undoing of a logged operation in database '%', an error occurred at log record ID (53970:95872:3). Typically, the specific failure is logged previously as an error in the Windows Event Log service.
Restore the database or file from a backup, or repair the database

Event ID :9001
The log for database '%' is not available. Check the event log for related error messages.
Resolve any errors and restart the database.


Event ID :3449
SQL Server must shut down in order to recover a database (database ID 2). The database is either a user database that could not be shut down or a system database. Restart SQL Server.
If the database fails to recover after another startup, repair or restore the database.

Event ID:823
The operating system returned error %ls to SQL Server during a %S_MSG at offset % in file '%ls'. Additional messages in the SQL Server error log and system event log may provide more detail. This is a severe system-level error condition that threatens database integrity and must be corrected immediately. Complete a full database consistency check (DBCC CHECKDB). This error can be caused by many factors; for more information, see SQL Server Books Online.

How to troubleshoot a Msg 823 error in SQL Server

Replication - sp_replcmds; Execution of filter stored procedure % failed.

Replication fail with

From Publisher
Replication Monitor
Replication - publisher to Distribution History, we have the below error :
The process could not execute 'sp_replcmds' on '. (Source: MSSQL_REPL, Error number: MSSQL_REPL20011)
Get help: http://help/MSSQL_REPL20011
Execution of filter stored procedure 1820181880 failed. See the SQL Server errorlog for more information. (Source: MSSQLServer, Error number: 18764)
Get help: http://help/18764
The Log-Scan Process failed to construct a replicated command from log sequence number (LSN) {00026ef8:00039201:0004}. Back up the publication database and contact Customer Support Services. (Source: MSSQLServer, Error number: 18805)
Get help: http://help/18805
The process could not execute 'sp_replcmds' on ''. (Source: MSSQL_REPL, Error number: MSSQL_REPL22037)
Get help: http://help/MSSQL_REPL22037

Publisher SQL Server - Error Log
No error

From Publisher, publisher database
run the below query. That might some error in replication filtering.
Select * from sysarticles where filter=1014603790

From SQLServer-> Replication->Local Publication->ReplicationName-> right click -> Properties-> Filter Rows
Check the condition as well

MSSQL disaster recovery

will update

Index best practice resource

201408
SQL Server Index Design Guide

SQL Server Best Practices Article - Published 2007

SQL Server 2008 Microsoft Certified Master Readiness Videos
Indexing Strategies
Index Analysis
Indexing Strategies Demonstration
Index Internals
Index Internals Demo
The Clustered Index Debate

why my index seek change to index scan when return result increase - will update

SQL 2012 non cluster column store index - will update
SQL 2014 cluster column store index - will update

SQL 2014 resource

SQL 2014 Resource
Twitter #SQLServer2014
SQL PASS Webinar Series
SQL Server 2014 In-Memory OLTP Overview
What new in SQL 2014