• MySQL Won’t Install on HP Server

    ISSUE: When installing MySQL on HP desktop or Server platforms, the installation may fail. A check of the MySQL install logs or Windows Application logs will show an error indicating the following: “Could not access network location Hewlett-Packard\” CAUSE:  This problem stems from a registry entry left behind on some…

  • Increase Max Connections Setting for MySQL

    In environments with multiple clusters, an HTTP 500 error may be thrown in Variphy by Apache Tomcat when trying to access CUCM clusters in the Call Analytics tab. This may be caused by too many connections trying to access the MySQL database at once (the default number is set to…

  • Locate MySQL Configuration File (my.ini or my.cnf)

    On Windows MySQL starts up with configurations defined in a file named “my.ini”.  To find where the active “my.ini” configuration file is located on the Windows Server: Step 1) Open Windows Services (e.g. start –> run –> “services.msc”) Step 2) Find the appropriate MySQL Service entry (e.g. “MySQL” or “MySQL56”),…

  • Upgrade a MySQL Windows Installation

    Introduction It may be necessary to upgrade the current version of MySQL that Variphy is using to the latest production release available in order to address security concerns with older versions. This document will cover the steps to upgrade from MySQL 5.0.x -5.5.x, to MySQL 5.6.21 (the latest production release…

  • Microsoft SQL Server Authentication

    In SQL Server, there are 2 possible types of Authentication: Windows – Local Windows user accounts to access SQL Server SQL – Configured user accounts within SQL Server, such as the ‘SA’ account, which is the default admin account (similar to the ‘root’ account in MySQL) SQL Server can be configured to…

  • How To Show the Current Size of the Transaction Log in MS SQL Server

    In MS SQL Server, change the DATABASE_NAME_HERE to the appropriate database name and then run the following SQL query: SELECT (size * 8.0)/1024.0 AS size_in_mb, CASE WHEN max_size = -1 THEN 9999999 ELSE (max_size * 8.0)/1024.0  END AS max_size_in_mb FROM DATABASE_NAME_HERE.sys.database_files  WHERE data_space_id = 0;

  • MS SQL Transaction Logs Full

    A Transaction log file is associated to each MS SQL database, even if the database is in simple recovery mode. While Simple recovery mode does not create logs as exensively as full recovery mode does, running a large query that is requiring signifigant memory and disk space can still create very large logs….

  • Limit the amount of memory MS SQL can use for data cache

    By Default, Microsoft SQL server 2008 R2 (or later) will allocate memory for database caching dynamically, unlike MySQL server, which requires that the innodb_buffer_pool_size parameter in the MySQL configuration file (my.cnf on Linux/OVA and my.ini on Windows) file be set to a fixed amount. However, in the event that MS SQL…

  • Migrating MSSQL DB Using Stored Procedures (Windows to Windows)

    PREPARE SOURCE MSSQL SERVER: Step 1) Login to source server via RDP or Console Step 2) Launch MSSQL Management Studio Step 3) Connect to the instance of the SQL Server Database Engine and then expand the instance. Step 4) Expand Databases, and select the name of the user database you want…

  • Could not allocate space for object ‘dbo.SORT temporary run storage

    The tempdb system database is a global resource that is available to all users connected to the instance of SQL Server and is used to hold the following: Temporary user objects that are explicitly created, such as: global or local temporary tables, temporary stored procedures, table variables, or cursors. Internal objects that…