Regarding Database Tuning Advisor

Hi guys, I am new to use Database Tuning Advisor. Right now I just save a workload as a sql and runs it in Database Tuning Advisor. The script that I wrote is kinda simple ( Select EID,EName,EDescription From Events Where EID = 300) . However, after I finish analyzed it, there's nothing to display on the recommendations session. Is it suppose got any details in it ? Or does it mean I no need to tune my query performance ? Hope someone can help me out here. Thx guys.

Best Regards,

Hans

It sounds like there were no recommendations -which I would suspect for such a simplistic script if you had basic indexes.

Normally, to generate a 'workload', you would run Profiler for a period of time, capturing all work on the server to a file (or table), and then use the DTA with that workload. I normally recommend, depending upon the amount of 'traffic', to capture a 24 hours block of work, or several key one hour segments during a day.

The primary idea with DTA is to try and reproduce what is happening on the server so that it can try to determine if the indexing is appropriate considering all that is being requested.

Refreshing a CSV file using DTS

I have a DTS job that populates a CSV file on a regular basis.
It appears that by default, each time the job runs the contents of the file
are overwritten with the new data from SQL Server.
Can anyone that confirm that this is the case?
And is it possible to have DTS append to rather than overwrite the contents
of the file?
That's correct...the default is to overwrite.
The append option isn't supported with the text file
provider. The workaround is generally to generate a second
file and then use FileSystemObject to create a single file
or a dos copy command to combine the two file into a third
file.
-Sue
On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 07:22:52 -0800, "Dave" <dave@.nospam.ru>
wrote:

>I have a DTS job that populates a CSV file on a regular basis.
>It appears that by default, each time the job runs the contents of the file
>are overwritten with the new data from SQL Server.
>Can anyone that confirm that this is the case?
>And is it possible to have DTS append to rather than overwrite the contents
>of the file?
>
sql

Refreshing a CSV file using DTS

I have a DTS job that populates a CSV file on a regular basis.
It appears that by default, each time the job runs the contents of the file
are overwritten with the new data from SQL Server.
Can anyone that confirm that this is the case?
And is it possible to have DTS append to rather than overwrite the contents
of the file?That's correct...the default is to overwrite.
The append option isn't supported with the text file
provider. The workaround is generally to generate a second
file and then use FileSystemObject to create a single file
or a dos copy command to combine the two file into a third
file.
-Sue
On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 07:22:52 -0800, "Dave" <dave@.nospam.ru>
wrote:

>I have a DTS job that populates a CSV file on a regular basis.
>It appears that by default, each time the job runs the contents of the file
>are overwritten with the new data from SQL Server.
>Can anyone that confirm that this is the case?
>And is it possible to have DTS append to rather than overwrite the contents
>of the file?
>

Refreshing a CSV file using DTS

I have a DTS job that populates a CSV file on a regular basis.
It appears that by default, each time the job runs the contents of the file
are overwritten with the new data from SQL Server.
Can anyone that confirm that this is the case?
And is it possible to have DTS append to rather than overwrite the contents
of the file?That's correct...the default is to overwrite.
The append option isn't supported with the text file
provider. The workaround is generally to generate a second
file and then use FileSystemObject to create a single file
or a dos copy command to combine the two file into a third
file.
-Sue
On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 07:22:52 -0800, "Dave" <dave@.nospam.ru>
wrote:
>I have a DTS job that populates a CSV file on a regular basis.
>It appears that by default, each time the job runs the contents of the file
>are overwritten with the new data from SQL Server.
>Can anyone that confirm that this is the case?
>And is it possible to have DTS append to rather than overwrite the contents
>of the file?
>

Reducing Size of MSDB

Are there any scripts that can be used to archive/remove older SQL agent job
runs in MSDB? We are running into larger and larger MSDB sizes and want to
control its growth.
--
Larry Menzin
American Techsystems Corp.Agent does this for you, if you refer to job history. It is configurable, on one of the tabs in EM,
for agent, properties. What possibly is causing this isn't job history, but backup history. Check
out sp_delete_backuphistory.
--
Tibor Karaszi, SQL Server MVP
http://www.karaszi.com/sqlserver/default.asp
http://www.solidqualitylearning.com/
Blog: http://solidqualitylearning.com/blogs/tibor/
"Larry Menzin" <LarryMenzin@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:A840316B-9B06-4884-9CE6-25715FDAAD69@.microsoft.com...
> Are there any scripts that can be used to archive/remove older SQL agent job
> runs in MSDB? We are running into larger and larger MSDB sizes and want to
> control its growth.
> --
> Larry Menzin
> American Techsystems Corp.|||Just to add to Tibor's answer: If you have a lot of DTS packages, and if
each DTS package has several versions saved, then your MSDB will be huge.
You can right click on a DTS package in Enterprise Manager and select
'Versions' from the popup menu to see how many versions that package has
got, and delete the older versions if you don't need them anymore.
--
HTH,
Vyas, MVP (SQL Server)
SQL Server Articles and Code Samples @. http://vyaskn.tripod.com/
"Larry Menzin" <LarryMenzin@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:A840316B-9B06-4884-9CE6-25715FDAAD69@.microsoft.com...
Are there any scripts that can be used to archive/remove older SQL agent job
runs in MSDB? We are running into larger and larger MSDB sizes and want to
control its growth.
--
Larry Menzin
American Techsystems Corp.|||The only safe way I know of is to manually delete them. You can however set
jobs to delete after they complete. When you go to the notifications tab of
a scheduled job, you can schedule Automatically Delete Job to have it be
deleted when it completes.
If you are scripting the creation of a job, set the delete_level parameter
of sp_addjob to 1.
"Larry Menzin" <LarryMenzin@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:A840316B-9B06-4884-9CE6-25715FDAAD69@.microsoft.com...
> Are there any scripts that can be used to archive/remove older SQL agent
> job
> runs in MSDB? We are running into larger and larger MSDB sizes and want to
> control its growth.
> --
> Larry Menzin
> American Techsystems Corp.