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timeout trouble in SQL Server 2005



Author
26 Jan 2006 3:56 PM
Contraptor
In December my company converted our databases/server and all of the
applications that connect to it to MS SQL Server 2005 when we had been
running InterBase 6.x.  Since then queries return much faster, except
there will be periods throughout the day ranging from 5-45 minutes
where almost every other query will timeout.  When we were running
InterBase the entire system would slow down and users would complain
because it took forever for them to get things done, this was the main
reason we upgraded to SQL Server.

I am just wondering if other people have had trouble with timeouts in
SQL Server 2005 and been able to work through the issue, if so how did
you do it?  We have tried several things, most recently to move the
tempdb to its own Raid array, but that actually seems to have made
things worse and the server now uses less RAM.

I must say I'm asking this somewhat out of desperation as word came
down from the mount today that if the timeout issue isn't fixed
within a week we'll be moving back to InterBase.  I'm sure I
don't have to explain what a grievous thought that is. 

Thanks,

Author
15 Feb 2006 2:51 PM
Mark Sissens
We have been experiencing something very similar in our test
environment that is making us nervous about putting SQL2K5 into
production. Queries will execute fine until for no apparent reason they
begin timing out. The execution plan yeilds no clue as they are
identical and the only way of eradicating the issue is to restart sql.
The timeouts occur frequently in the developer environment (WinXP sp2,
SQL2K5 Developer Edition, VS2003/2005) on Winforms and ASP.NET
projects. It has also occurred on 2 occasions on a test server (Win 2K3
Standard sp1, SQL 2K5 Standard) running an ASP.NET application under
minimal load. Does anyone have any ideas what is causing this?
Cheers,
Mark.




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> In December my company converted our databases/server and all of the
> applications that connect to it to MS SQL Server 2005 when we had been
> running InterBase 6.x.  Since then queries return much faster, except
> there will be periods throughout the day ranging from 5-45 minutes
> where almost every other query will timeout.  When we were running
> InterBase the entire system would slow down and users would complain
> because it took forever for them to get things done, this was the main
> reason we upgraded to SQL Server.
>
> I am just wondering if other people have had trouble with timeouts in
> SQL Server 2005 and been able to work through the issue, if so how did
> you do it?  We have tried several things, most recently to move the
> tempdb to its own Raid array, but that actually seems to have made
> things worse and the server now uses less RAM.
>
> I must say I'm asking this somewhat out of desperation as word came
> down from the mount today that if the timeout issue isn't fixed
> within a week we'll be moving back to InterBase.  I'm sure I
> don't have to explain what a grievous thought that is. 
>
> Thanks,

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