SQL Server 7.0 Unresponsive

  • This is a synopsis of a SQL 7.0 failure that I had. Has anyone experienced this?

    Backup logs job started On database which also restores logs on stand by server..

    Took 1hr :44mins to run before it got cancelled by issueing stop command to SQLServer agent

    Started traces to capture data for blocked processes

    Started killing blocking processes but couldn't kill any

    Issued stopp to SQL Server services. SQL agent stopped but engine was still trying to stop.

    Issued hard boot to the system

    System came backup SQL Server was started successfully.

  • Why couldnt you kill the processes? Were they system spids? Taking the server down without letting SQL finish checkpointing should definitely be a last resort. One of my servers takes anywhere from 7-10 mins to close down once I issue the stop.

    Andy

    http://www.sqlservercentral.com/columnists/awarren/

  • The problem is that I couldn't kill any fo the processes. They were all database spids coming from an application server.

    Even after I shutdown all the application servers I could still see them and couldn't kill them.

  • Still not sure I understand. When you issued the kill, did the spid begin rollback? Not affected at all? Are you sure the app server didnt immediately reconnect and establish the spid?

    Andy

    http://www.sqlservercentral.com/columnists/awarren/

  • The spid did not begin rollback and was not affected at all. We stop all the processes on the app server so it wasn't trying to reconnect.

  • Has anyone else seen this problem?

  • I'm running SQL 7.0 SP 4 with latest hot fix I had similar problem yesterday my server became unresponsive. We Couldn't connect to the databases. I ran couple of perfmon counter but they were showing no activity on server. I tried to stop and start services but it got hanged. Helplessly we had to reboot the system. When system came back we checked sql errorlogs which shows error " The Scheduler 0 appears to be hung. PSS 0x44B31128, EC 0x44B312D8, UMS Context 0x0109FBA0" any clue ?

  • Got this through our DBA from Microsoft Support - any similarlity?

    Please check KB (BUG: Ghosted Record Cleanup Process May Go Into CPU

    Spin Due to an WGID:168

    ID: 284938.KB.EN-US) for more details.

    http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;284938

  • Where the spids in as rollback-state ? Then you cannot kill them. I've noticed this in relation with some non-IT-developed access-applications. After these applications where banned to use the production sqlserver this phenomenon nomore occured.

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