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Chapter 3 System Administration for Beginners [Table of Contents] Chapter 5 Setting Configuration Parameters

System Administration Guide (Online Only)

[-] Chapter 4 Diagnosing System Problems

Chapter 4

Diagnosing System Problems

This chapter discusses diagnosing and fixing system problems.

[-] How Adaptive Server uses error messages to respond to system problems
Error messages and message numbers
Variables in error message text
[-] Adaptive Server error logging
Error log format
Severity levels
[+] Levels 10- 18
[+] Severity levels 19- 26
Reporting errors
Backup Server error logging
[-] Killing processes
Using sp_lock to examine blocking processes
[-] Configuring Adaptive Server to save SQL batch text
[+] Allocating memory for batch text
SQL commands not represented by text
[+] Viewing the query plan of a SQL statement
Viewing a nested procedure
[-] Shutting down servers
Shutting down Adaptive Server
[+] Shutting down a Backup Server
Learning about known problems


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