SQL Server 2005 Practical Troubleshooting: The Database Engine

Never-Before-Published Insiders’ Information for Troubleshooting SQL Server 2005.

This is the definitive guide to troubleshooting the Microsoft SQL Server 2005 database engine, direct from the people who know it most intimately: the people who wrote it, designed it, and support it. SQL Server expert Ken Henderson, author of the best-selling Guru’s Guides to SQL Server, has assembled a “dream team” of SQL Server developers and support engineers to provide in-depth troubleshooting and diagnostic information that has never been documented before: information that would be impossible to get without access to Microsoft’s own source code.

From caching to clustering, query processing to Service Broker, this book will help you address even the toughest problems with database engine operations. Each chapter begins with a brief architectural overview of a key SQL Server component, then drills down into the most common problems users encounter, offering specific guidance on investigating and resolving them. You’ll find comprehensive, in-depth chapters on

• Waiting and blocking

• Data corruption and recovery

• Memory

• Procedure cache issues

• Query processing

• Server crashes and other critical failures

• Service Broker

• SQLOS and scheduling

• tempdb

• Clustering

This is the indispensable resource for everyone who must keep SQL Server running smoothly: DBAs, database application developers, API programmers, and Web developers alike.

Contents

About the Authors      ix

Preface      xii

Acknowledgments      xiv

1   Waiting and Blocking Issues      1

2   Data Corruption and Recovery Issues      47

3    Memory Issues      137

4   Procedure Cache Issues      183

5   Query Processor Issues      225

6   Server Crashes and Other Critical Failures      273

7   Service Broker Issues      331

8   SQLOS and Scheduling Issues      369

9   Tempdb Issues      411

10   Clustering Issues      425

The Aging Champion      441

Index      445