by XTIVIA | May 15, 2015 | Blog, Data Management, Databases
During routine integrity checks one of our Virtual-DBA customers encountered an error 17053 was encountered causing the job performing these tasks to fail. Investigating the problem further this information was also included with the error in the SQL Error Log:...
by XTIVIA | May 6, 2015 | Blog, Data Management, Databases
Tip # 6 – Change History, Top 10 Tips for SQL Server Performance and Resiliency This article is part 6 in a series on the top 10 most common mistakes that I have seen impacting SQL Server Performance and Resiliency. This post is not all inclusive. Most common mistake...
by XTIVIA | Mar 4, 2015 | Blog, Data Management, Databases
This article is part 5 in a series on the top 10 most common mistakes that I have seen impacting SQL Server Performance and Resiliency. This post is not all inclusive. Most common mistake #5: Not Setting a Maximum Memory Default configurations are not always the best...
by Kathleen Long | Feb 27, 2015 | Blog, Business Intelligence, Data Management, Data Warehousing, Databases
Not all data will come from a SQL Server database when you are creating reports in SSRS. There will be times you will need to create a data source to .CSV files, Excel spreadsheets, and MS Access databases. Recently, I had a customer request setting up sample data...
by XTIVIA | Feb 26, 2015 | Blog, Data Management, Databases
This is a pretty common error and there are a few reasons you might be seeing this error. 1. The database could simply be down. If you’re on *nix platform you can simple check this by a simple ps -ef | grep pmon. If this returns ora_pmon_<instance_name>....
by XTIVIA | Feb 25, 2015 | Blog, Data Management, Databases
Problem Description A working federation environment – querying an 11gR2 Oracle database from a DB2 10.5 FP4 database – suddenly started returning error ORA-01013. Four minutes into each statement, the following error was returned: SQL1822N...
