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Question I’m working on a web app which is using SQL Server Express (Microsoft SQL Server 2016 (SP1) (KB3182545) – 13.0.4001.0 (X64) Oct 28 2016 18:17:30 Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation Express Edition (64-bit) on Windows 10 Pro 6.3 (Build 18362: )). The web app is … [Read More]

Question I can take databases offline (via GUI) but can’t bring them back online. The server details are as follow: RDBMS: MS SQL 2016 Express Host: Amazon AWS/RDS Free Tier Details/History of the Problem A few months ago, I created a db instance on Amazon … [Read More]

Question Here is my situation: I have a WebSocket connection that feeds me data real-time I have an async callback function that gets the data and inserts into a queue I have another thread that reads from the queue and stores it into the Postgres … [Read More]

Question SQL Server System Databases, as far as I know, always have those same IDs and I have seen lots of maintenance scripts on the internet relying on the predicate WHERE database_id > 4 to exclude them from the actions of the script. Also, if … [Read More]

Question We have a database of total size of 3886 GB. Out of which 778 GB is free. So total 3108 GB worth of data is present. Out of which 2458 GB is “LOB Data” and 400 GB is worth “Regular”. Since the database is … [Read More]

Question We have got a procedure on SQL Server agent jobs and this job started to hang on transaction for many hours with wait stats CXCONSUMER and never complete. The problem is after we noticed that it was hanging we kill the job and started … [Read More]

Question How many transactions per second can SQL Server table triggers handle? If I had a highly transactional table that was inserted into 1,000 times a second, are insert triggers on that table reliable to fire every single time? asked 2019-12-21 by J.D. Answer are … [Read More]

Question I have a stored proc spGetSites that returns three columns for SiteName, SiteId and UnitCount. The stored proc runs perfectly fine. I’m trying to store the results of the stored proc to a temp table @Site to use for my report with below syntax. … [Read More]