Category Archives: SQL Server 2011 (Denali)

Script to Monitor the progress of ALTER, Backup, Restore, DBCC, Rollback and TDE commands

We often like to check the progess or completed percentage of time consuming command. You can query the sys.dm_exec_requests DMV to check the status of the command.

You must have atleast view state permission to execute the below query.
ALTER INDEX REORGANIZE
AUTO_SHRINK option with ALTER DATABASE
BACKUP DATABASE
DBCC CHECKDB
DBCC CHECKFILEGROUP
DBCC CHECKTABLE
DBCC INDEXDEFRAG
DBCC SHRINKDATABASE
DBCC SHRINKFILE
RECOVERY
RESTORE DATABASE
ROLLBACK
TDE ENCRYPTION

SELECT dmr.session_id,
       dmr.status,
       dmr.start_time,
       dmr.command,
       dmt.TEXT,
       dmr.percent_complete
FROM sys.dm_exec_requests dmr  CROSS APPLY sys.Dm_exec_sql_text(dmr.sql_handle) dmt WHERE dmr.command IN (‘ALTER’, ‘Backup’, ‘Restore’, ‘DBCC’, ‘Rollback’,  ‘TDE’)

Script to Update Statistics by passing database name

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You can use below script to update the statistics with the FULL Scan. You can pass the database name in below script, I have given JShah as database name.

EXEC Sp_msforeachdb
@command1=‘IF ”#” IN (”JShah”) BEGIN PRINT ”#”;
EXEC #.dbo.sp_msForEachTable ”UPDATE STATISTICS ? WITH FULLSCAN”, @command2=”PRINT CONVERT(VARCHAR, GETDATE(), 9) + ”” - ? Stats Updated””” END’
,@replaceChar = ‘#’

You can use below script to update the statistics with the SAMPLE Percent agrument. You can pass the database name in below script, I have given JShah as database name.

EXEC Sp_msforeachdb
@command1=‘IF ”#” IN (”JShah”) BEGIN PRINT ”#”;
EXEC #.dbo.sp_msForEachTable ”UPDATE STATISTICS ? WITH SAMPLE 50 PERCENT”, @command2=”PRINT CONVERT(VARCHAR, GETDATE(), 9) + ”” - ? Stats Updated””” END’
,@replaceChar = ‘#’

Resolving could not open a connection to SQL Server errors

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Problem

Sometimes you may have issues connecting to SQL Server and you may get messages such as the following:

ERROR: (provider: Named Pipes Provider, error: 40 – Could not open a connection to SQL Server) (Microsoft SQL Server, Error:) An error has occurred while establishing a connection to the server. (provider: Named Pipes Provider, error: 40 – Could not open a connection to SQL Server) (Microsoft SQL Server, Error: 5)

An error has occurred while establishing a connection to the server. When connecting to SQL Server 2005, this failure may be caused by the fact that under the default settings SQL Server does not allow remote connections. (provider: Named Pipes Provider, error: 40 – Could not open a connection to SQL Server) (Microsoft SQL Server, Error: 1326)

A network-related error or instance-specific error occurred while establishing a connection to SQL Server. The server was not found or was not accessible. Verify that the instance name is correct and that SQL Server is configured to allow remote connections. (provider: TCP Provider, error: 0 – No such host is known.) (Microsoft SQL Server, Error: 11001)