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How Can a Company Receive Support from Microsoft for SQL Server Enterprise with Software Assurance?
Hello, I’m currently managing SQL Server under the following licensing agreement: SQL Server Enterprise Core Single Language License & Software Assurance Open Value | 2 Licenses | No Level | 1 Year | Acquired Year 1 | AP I’ve been informed that Software Assurance (SA) no longer includes technical support for SQL Server. Could you please confirm if this is correct? If our organization needs technical support from Microsoft for SQL Server, I would like to clarify the following: Is it mandatory to have a Unified Support contract or to purchase incidents via the Microsoft Services Hub in order to receive support? Regarding Services Hub, I’ve heard that support incidents must be purchased using a personal Microsoft account (MSA). If this is true, can this method be used to receive support for corporate environments? Thank you in advance.SSMS Dialog Box issue
Using SSMS 21.5.14, but I know this issue has existed in previous versions of SSMS. When opening a View in Design mode in SSMS, if the View contains a UNION, SSMS pops up a dialog box like the one below. The dialog box immediately hides behind the active SSMS window and sometimes you are not even aware that it has appeared. If I do notice it immediately, I am not able to click the OK button to clear it. This dialog box sits happily in the background and I can still move around the SSMS interface, however it does some odd things like ignoring certain keypresses when editing stored procedures or trying to make changes in a Query window. The only option is to exit SSMS completely and start again. When I do exit SSMS, I get the following message: Has anyone else experienced this and is there a way to prevent it happening? TIA!
SQL Server 2025 – Native JSON Size Limit?
Hi Guys, I am exploring SQL Server 2025 to store JSON documents using the native JSON data type. I have gone through several Microsoft SQL technical documents but couldn’t find the maximum size of the native JSON data type. I believe it hasn’t been officially published yet. Does anyone have any insights? Thanks, Tushar
SSMS 21/22 Error Upload BACPAC file to Azure Storage
Hello All In my SSMS 20, I can use "Export Data-tier Application" to export an BACPAC file of Azure SQL database and upload to Azure storage in the same machine, the SSMS 21 gives error message when doing the same export, it created the BACPAC files but failed on the last step, "Uploading BACPAC file to Microsoft Azure Storage", The error message is "Could not load file or assembly 'System.IO.Hashing, Version=6.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=cc7b13ffcd2ddd51' or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified. (Azure.Storage.Blobs)" I tried the fresh installation of SSMS 21 in a brand-new machine (Windows 11), same issue, Can anyone advice? ThanksDo input tag values keep updating after SP execution begins?
In my facility we use PLC's to trigger SQL Stored Procedures through a Kepware server. Most of these SP's are for data collection. If I set the execute bit to true, but then one of my data collection points changes value before the execution finishes, does the SP see that data change? Or is it just using the value as it was at time of execution start? Thanks for your help in advance
REPL55012 error
hello. i tryin make db replication(publisher - mssqlserver2019standard, subscriber - mssqlserver 2019 express). at step when "magic should make things" i got error: Get help: https://help/MSSQL_REPL55012 it so strange" in sql forums MS forbidden post exact error message. any directions where to dig? thanks. ps. i tryin reinnstall latest ole db drivers but no luck.
Reading REST Data from SQL Server
Hi All, First question is this. A while ago I tested https://github.com/geral2/SQL-APIConsumer to add into SQL Server 2019 SE to be able to easily do rest calls. We are ready to move forward with what we did but I was wondering if this functionality has been included in SQL Server 2022 SE? If so we would use the standard product. Does anyone know if this functionality was rolled into SQL Server 2022 SE and if so a blog post we can go and read? Thanks. My second question is this. Is this the best place to ask SQK Server questions now? We have used MSDN and Answers in the past. So I am just wondering where we should post our questions for SQL server now. Thank you in advance for any assistance you can offer us. Best Regards Peter Jones.Solved : Uneven CPU usage
Greetings and salutations, I'm asking for your help with a situation that I'm not sure is a real problem, but it definitely caught my attention. We bought new hypervisor servers with two AMD EPYC 9174F processors (16 cores, 4.1 GHz, so 32 cores in total ). We are using Hyper-V. The hypervisor hosts only a single VM assigned 16 virtual cores. The VM is running Windows Server 2022 Standard and SQL Server 2019 Standard CU27. The VM was moved to this AMD hypervisor from another hypervisor, which was equipped with two Intel Xeon Gold 6346 processors (16 cores, 3.1 GHz, 32 cores in total). When monitoring the resource usage of a VM that is now running on the new AMD hypervisor, I see very uneven CPU usage that was not the case on the previous Intel hypervisor. As you can see in the images from Task Manager and Perfmon, the first 8 cores are significantly more loaded against the other 8. While the core for example core 0 and 1 are on average loaded at 66%, cores 14 and 15 are loaded at 2-4%. The SQL Server ERRORLOG clearly states that all 16 cores are in use, which is confirmed by querying the sys.dm_os_schedulers object. I'm partially hoping this is a Perfmon-level issue, but I certainly don't want to underestimate the situation. Perhaps I should direct my question to the Windows forum, but since it is database system, I'm creating a thread here. Does anyone have any idea how I should go about solving this situation please? Solution Almost by accident I managed to solve the problem and I'm ashamed that I didn't solve the problem sooner. The cause of the problem was an inappropriately set Widnows Server Power Plan. As you probably know, the default setting after installation is the Balanced mode, which, however, is extremely unsuitable for performance-intensive applications, which are database systems. Out of 16 virtual cores, 8 were in "Parked" mode. Changing the configuration to "High Performance" solved the problem immediately. It's already my routine to change this configuration when setting up each database server, and I'm almost certain I've done it on this system as well.
SQL Version Upgrade 2017 to 2019 in an unclustered read-scale availability group
We need to upgrade our production SQL servers from SQL 2017 to 2019 (both are Ent. Edition). We have ~70 servers hosted in our DC. Each SQL Server instance consists of 2 VMs in a 2 node FCI, failing over at the beginning of and mid-month. They constitute the primary in a read-scale AG, utilized for offloading read heavy reporting. The secondary in the AG is a single server Iaas VMs hosted in Azure, 1 per FCI. The AGs are set to manual failover, asynchronous commit. The primary and secondary are not together in a WSFC. Because they are not bound in a WSFC we believe we should be able to update the secondary to SQL 2019, then perform a rolling upgrade on the 2 node primary, without first removing the secondary from the AG and afterward having to reseed the DBs in the AG. Each server hosts ~50 client DBs and we'd like to avoid having to reseed some 3000+ DBs. Most of what I've found online deals with clustererd AGs so any experience, advise, comment is most welcome.
