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Lida Humbert
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"Starting with SQL Server 2012, these memory limits are enforced only for the database cache (buffer pool). The rest of the caches in the SQL Server memory manager can use much more memory than is specified by these edition limits. For example, a SQL Server 2012 Express edition can use only a maximum size of 1.4 GB for its database cache. Other caches (such as the procedure cache, the metadata cache, and so on) can consume memory up to the size specified by the "max server memory" configuration."
sql server download express edition
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This seems to have the advantages of distributing disk I/O across servers while saving massive $$$ (since small 15K drives and used dual core servers are both inexpensive). If at some point we need too many servers, we can upgrade to SQL Server ... but with dozens of internal users this just seems too expensive right now (particularly since we'd need a failover box).
SQL server likes lots of RAM. The more the better. As the SQL Server can't load data into cache that'll put additional load on the disks. You should look at the Web Edition or Workstation edition of SQL Server. Those editions have higher limits than the Express edition, but cost less than Standard Edition.
So what does this have to do with database mirroring? Well, it seems that the mirroring endpoint that you have to create between mirror and principal servers is really nothing more than a Skydrive link. Although it doesn't actually use Skydrive, it performs the same function. So in effect, the following statement:
The 5022$ "port" is actually a hidden system directory on the principal and mirror servers. I haven't quite figured out how the log files are included in this, or why you have to SET PARTNER on both principal and mirror servers, except maybe that mklink has to do something special when linking across servers. I couldn't get the above statement to work correctly, but found that doing mklink to a local Skydrive folder gave me similar functionality.
One wrinkle you will encounter is that the mirror server will show the data and log files, but you won't be able to attach them to the mirror SQL instance while they are attached to the principal. I think this is a bug in the Skydrive, but as it turns out that's fine: you can't access a mirror while it's hosted on the principal either. So you don't quite get automatic failover, but you can attach the files to the mirror if the principal goes offline. It's also not exactly synchronous, but it's better than nothing, and easier than either replication or log shipping with a lot less latency.
We have opened a plant in Thailand and I need to sync a very small database that we have here in California. My boss doesn't want spend the license for Enterprise edition in Thailand for 1 50MB database so I was wondering if anyone knows a good way to utilize log shipping with SQL Express edition. I have a job that is doing a log backup of my primary db to a network folder and my problem is that SQL express does not come with an Agent to schedule the restore on the server in Thailand. I downloaded an application called Scheduler 2.0 but it's not very robust and doesn't have many options. I have the script that copies the log from the network folder and does a restore with standby option to the database in Thailand, I'm just trying to find out the best way to schedule it? I haven't had great success with Windows scheduler in the past. Anyone use Powershell? Can it be done with that?
SQL Server Express is the most basic offering available. It is a full database engine you can deploy to a server or embed into an application. Express is free and comes with many of the same features as the enterprise edition. SQL Server Express is probably most suited to supporting production applications for smaller to midsize businesses. A typical SQL Server Express use case would be a deployment by developers who do not want to create applications with a database hosted on a server. Using Express, they would be able to develop apps with their SQL Server database.
SQL Server 2016 SP1 Express: This is the core express offering and comes with the features we have already laid out. In addition, capabilities like dynamic data masking and row-level security are now available in Express.
If you have a scenario that requires a larger amount of storage, you can usesharding across multiple DB instances to get around the limit. This approachrequires data-dependent routing logic in applications that connect to thesharded system. You can use an existing sharding framework, or you can writecustom code to enable sharding. If you use an existing framework, the frameworkcan't install any components on the same server as the DB instance.
To use these features, we recommend that you install SQL Server on an Amazon EC2 instance, oruse an on-premises SQL Server instance. In these cases, the EC2 or SQL Serverinstance acts as the Master Data Services server for your SQL Server DB instanceon Amazon RDS. You can install SQL Server on an Amazon EC2 instance with Amazon EBS storage,pursuant to Microsoft licensing policies.
The Microsoft SQL Server database engine uses role-based security. The master user name that you specify when you create a DB instance is a SQL Server Authentication login that is a member of the processadmin, public, and setupadmin fixed server roles.
To set up auditing, set the parameter rds.sqlserver_audit to the value fedramp_hipaa. If your DB instance is not already using a custom DB parameter group, you must create a custom parameter group and attach it to your DB instance before you can modify the rds.sqlserver_audit parameter. For more information, see Working with parameter groups.
Recently I've been asked to look at complaints of slow performance with the SQL program, in conjunction with the software developers. The slowness is all the time, but especially noticeable when running reports or backing up the database (which is just over 2GB). Depending on who you ask, 'it has always been slow', but this server is 5 years old and only recently has it been worth troubleshooting.
The software developer does not have listed hardware requirements, nor can he figure out what the problem is. However, if he takes the database and runs it on a standalone workstation, it seems to run fine. A normal backup in that situation will take less than 5 minutes, but on the server it takes over an hour.
I don't see performance issues with anything other than this program, and it seems now like it is only when that program interacts with these drives. I'm not a SQL guy, but rather a server/network guy, and I don't really know what to make of this! Any ideas??
Thanks for the comments. Due to budget constraints, a separate server and sql standard aren't options.
My real question revolves more around why would it be slow on this server, but when run on a workstation or even just a usb drive on the server it is faster? The workstation has a 7200RPM drive too, and the usb drive is a spinning drive over USB 2.0, yet both have better performance.
The software developers say they typically just run it on a workstation, so it's not an intensive program.
I'd recommend registering for free and running a Dell LiveOptics collector on the server (technically on a workstation connected to it) over a few days to reveal its bottlenecks. You can also use free HammerDB to benchmark that SQL database.
A workstation isn't a server and often has a lot more going on in addition, particularly as this is also acts as a DC, DNS, DHCP and file server. Just the domain controller alone can introduce additional restrictions that could impact performance. Some of the other roles will also increase the likelihood of disk contention.
You are running SQL off the system drive. The system OS needs resources. In your case it also needs resources for DC operations, DNS, and file shares. If you check the resource usage in Task Manager you will probably see your drive is maxed out running in the red because of all the services accessing it constantly. SQL is a resource hog and not only needs to be on a separate server you are normally supposed to install it across multiple drives. You never install SQL on the system drive because it causes performance issues. You need the base SQL install on one drive, logs on another, and backups on a third meaning you normally should have four drives on a SQL server just running SQL. Depending on how big your database is and how many users you have some designs require up to 12 drives. This is all because of performance. This is why you are seeing issues with your drive as normally moving data to a USB drive especially a USB 2.0 drive would be a major bottleneck and would decrease performance but as you are seeing an increase it demonstrates just how poor your current configuration is that doing something that normally would have negative results is actually making it better for you.
SQL Express is a free version of SQL from Microsoft, that comes with some limitations. It can utilize a maximum 1 GB of RAM per instance, the maximum database size is 10 GB, and there can be a maximum of 50 instances per server. SQL Express is limited to either 1 socket or 4 cores, so if you need a more powerful environment, you may consider upgrading to the higher SQL Server edition.
Manifold System is often used with database management systems. In particular, Enterprise Edition is often used with DBMS packages to create Enterprise servers, or to store drawings in databases to allow concurrent, multi-user editing. Manifold traditionally has supported the three top commercial enterprise class DBMS packages, IBM DB2, Microsoft SQL Server and Oracle.
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sql server download express edition
Download https://t.co/QH14QHt735
This seems to have the advantages of distributing disk I/O across servers while saving massive $$$ (since small 15K drives and used dual core servers are both inexpensive). If at some point we need too many servers, we can upgrade to SQL Server ... but with dozens of internal users this just seems too expensive right now (particularly since we'd need a failover box).
SQL server likes lots of RAM. The more the better. As the SQL Server can't load data into cache that'll put additional load on the disks. You should look at the Web Edition or Workstation edition of SQL Server. Those editions have higher limits than the Express edition, but cost less than Standard Edition.
So what does this have to do with database mirroring? Well, it seems that the mirroring endpoint that you have to create between mirror and principal servers is really nothing more than a Skydrive link. Although it doesn't actually use Skydrive, it performs the same function. So in effect, the following statement:
The 5022$ "port" is actually a hidden system directory on the principal and mirror servers. I haven't quite figured out how the log files are included in this, or why you have to SET PARTNER on both principal and mirror servers, except maybe that mklink has to do something special when linking across servers. I couldn't get the above statement to work correctly, but found that doing mklink to a local Skydrive folder gave me similar functionality.
One wrinkle you will encounter is that the mirror server will show the data and log files, but you won't be able to attach them to the mirror SQL instance while they are attached to the principal. I think this is a bug in the Skydrive, but as it turns out that's fine: you can't access a mirror while it's hosted on the principal either. So you don't quite get automatic failover, but you can attach the files to the mirror if the principal goes offline. It's also not exactly synchronous, but it's better than nothing, and easier than either replication or log shipping with a lot less latency.
We have opened a plant in Thailand and I need to sync a very small database that we have here in California. My boss doesn't want spend the license for Enterprise edition in Thailand for 1 50MB database so I was wondering if anyone knows a good way to utilize log shipping with SQL Express edition. I have a job that is doing a log backup of my primary db to a network folder and my problem is that SQL express does not come with an Agent to schedule the restore on the server in Thailand. I downloaded an application called Scheduler 2.0 but it's not very robust and doesn't have many options. I have the script that copies the log from the network folder and does a restore with standby option to the database in Thailand, I'm just trying to find out the best way to schedule it? I haven't had great success with Windows scheduler in the past. Anyone use Powershell? Can it be done with that?
SQL Server Express is the most basic offering available. It is a full database engine you can deploy to a server or embed into an application. Express is free and comes with many of the same features as the enterprise edition. SQL Server Express is probably most suited to supporting production applications for smaller to midsize businesses. A typical SQL Server Express use case would be a deployment by developers who do not want to create applications with a database hosted on a server. Using Express, they would be able to develop apps with their SQL Server database.
SQL Server 2016 SP1 Express: This is the core express offering and comes with the features we have already laid out. In addition, capabilities like dynamic data masking and row-level security are now available in Express.
If you have a scenario that requires a larger amount of storage, you can usesharding across multiple DB instances to get around the limit. This approachrequires data-dependent routing logic in applications that connect to thesharded system. You can use an existing sharding framework, or you can writecustom code to enable sharding. If you use an existing framework, the frameworkcan't install any components on the same server as the DB instance.
To use these features, we recommend that you install SQL Server on an Amazon EC2 instance, oruse an on-premises SQL Server instance. In these cases, the EC2 or SQL Serverinstance acts as the Master Data Services server for your SQL Server DB instanceon Amazon RDS. You can install SQL Server on an Amazon EC2 instance with Amazon EBS storage,pursuant to Microsoft licensing policies.
The Microsoft SQL Server database engine uses role-based security. The master user name that you specify when you create a DB instance is a SQL Server Authentication login that is a member of the processadmin, public, and setupadmin fixed server roles.
To set up auditing, set the parameter rds.sqlserver_audit to the value fedramp_hipaa. If your DB instance is not already using a custom DB parameter group, you must create a custom parameter group and attach it to your DB instance before you can modify the rds.sqlserver_audit parameter. For more information, see Working with parameter groups.
Recently I've been asked to look at complaints of slow performance with the SQL program, in conjunction with the software developers. The slowness is all the time, but especially noticeable when running reports or backing up the database (which is just over 2GB). Depending on who you ask, 'it has always been slow', but this server is 5 years old and only recently has it been worth troubleshooting.
The software developer does not have listed hardware requirements, nor can he figure out what the problem is. However, if he takes the database and runs it on a standalone workstation, it seems to run fine. A normal backup in that situation will take less than 5 minutes, but on the server it takes over an hour.
I don't see performance issues with anything other than this program, and it seems now like it is only when that program interacts with these drives. I'm not a SQL guy, but rather a server/network guy, and I don't really know what to make of this! Any ideas??
Thanks for the comments. Due to budget constraints, a separate server and sql standard aren't options.
My real question revolves more around why would it be slow on this server, but when run on a workstation or even just a usb drive on the server it is faster? The workstation has a 7200RPM drive too, and the usb drive is a spinning drive over USB 2.0, yet both have better performance.
The software developers say they typically just run it on a workstation, so it's not an intensive program.
I'd recommend registering for free and running a Dell LiveOptics collector on the server (technically on a workstation connected to it) over a few days to reveal its bottlenecks. You can also use free HammerDB to benchmark that SQL database.
A workstation isn't a server and often has a lot more going on in addition, particularly as this is also acts as a DC, DNS, DHCP and file server. Just the domain controller alone can introduce additional restrictions that could impact performance. Some of the other roles will also increase the likelihood of disk contention.
You are running SQL off the system drive. The system OS needs resources. In your case it also needs resources for DC operations, DNS, and file shares. If you check the resource usage in Task Manager you will probably see your drive is maxed out running in the red because of all the services accessing it constantly. SQL is a resource hog and not only needs to be on a separate server you are normally supposed to install it across multiple drives. You never install SQL on the system drive because it causes performance issues. You need the base SQL install on one drive, logs on another, and backups on a third meaning you normally should have four drives on a SQL server just running SQL. Depending on how big your database is and how many users you have some designs require up to 12 drives. This is all because of performance. This is why you are seeing issues with your drive as normally moving data to a USB drive especially a USB 2.0 drive would be a major bottleneck and would decrease performance but as you are seeing an increase it demonstrates just how poor your current configuration is that doing something that normally would have negative results is actually making it better for you.
SQL Express is a free version of SQL from Microsoft, that comes with some limitations. It can utilize a maximum 1 GB of RAM per instance, the maximum database size is 10 GB, and there can be a maximum of 50 instances per server. SQL Express is limited to either 1 socket or 4 cores, so if you need a more powerful environment, you may consider upgrading to the higher SQL Server edition.
Manifold System is often used with database management systems. In particular, Enterprise Edition is often used with DBMS packages to create Enterprise servers, or to store drawings in databases to allow concurrent, multi-user editing. Manifold traditionally has supported the three top commercial enterprise class DBMS packages, IBM DB2, Microsoft SQL Server and Oracle.
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