HELP ! Suddenly, terribly slow SQLServer Enterprise Manager

Hi,
I am using SQLServer on my development laptop, and it's running without
any problems since at least 6 or 7 months. Suddenly, since yesterday,
when I start the Entreprise Manager, it takes absolute AGES (minutes,
with a very intensive disk activity) until it shows the console root,
and each click on a table takes again ages until the rows are shown.
Even paging takes now 10 times longer as before. My DB is very snmall,
something like 50,000 rows in total max. A double click on the table
icon of the largest table (20,000 rows) takes 2 MINUTES to complete ! A
click on the "Run" icon in the tool bar takes more than 10 seconds to
complete, to show 40-50 rows !
I have reorganized the DB, but that does not help at all for the
performance.
I noticed that the log file is 76 Megabytes whereas the DB after
shrinking is only 8 Meg. I have done a backup of the log file, but it is
only a ridicule 196 KBytes, and the live log is just as big as before !
The very strange thing is that, if I log as another user on my laptop,
then I have the normal speed in Enterprise Manager. How is that possible ?
What's going on ? Why suddenly, where I can't remember having done
anything special these last days. And more importantly, how do I get
back to the previous status, where everything was real quick ? I just
can't work properly anymore if every single click is taking minutes !!!
Thanks for help.
Bernard
Sound like someone has turned on ODBC tracing.
Tibor Karaszi, SQL Server MVP
http://www.karaszi.com/sqlserver/default.asp
http://www.solidqualitylearning.com/
Blog: http://solidqualitylearning.com/blogs/tibor/
"bthouin" <bernard_thouin@.bluewin.com> wrote in message
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> Hi,
> I am using SQLServer on my development laptop, and it's running without any problems since at
> least 6 or 7 months. Suddenly, since yesterday, when I start the Entreprise Manager, it takes
> absolute AGES (minutes, with a very intensive disk activity) until it shows the console root, and
> each click on a table takes again ages until the rows are shown. Even paging takes now 10 times
> longer as before. My DB is very snmall, something like 50,000 rows in total max. A double click on
> the table icon of the largest table (20,000 rows) takes 2 MINUTES to complete ! A click on the
> "Run" icon in the tool bar takes more than 10 seconds to complete, to show 40-50 rows !
> I have reorganized the DB, but that does not help at all for the performance.
> I noticed that the log file is 76 Megabytes whereas the DB after shrinking is only 8 Meg. I have
> done a backup of the log file, but it is only a ridicule 196 KBytes, and the live log is just as
> big as before !
> The very strange thing is that, if I log as another user on my laptop, then I have the normal
> speed in Enterprise Manager. How is that possible ?
> What's going on ? Why suddenly, where I can't remember having done anything special these last
> days. And more importantly, how do I get back to the previous status, where everything was real
> quick ? I just can't work properly anymore if every single click is taking minutes !!!
> Thanks for help.
> Bernard
|||THANK YOU ! I DID turn it on, and did not see any log at all coming up,
so I thought it had not worked and totally forgot about it !
Yes, now my Enterprise Manager is back to normal.
You made my day ! Sometimes, it's so simple...
Ah, what a relief it is...
And what about my <database>_Log.LDF file ? How do I get rid of/truncate
it ?
Regards, and thanks again.
Bernard
Tibor Karaszi wrote:
> Sound like someone has turned on ODBC tracing.
>
|||> And what about my <database>_Log.LDF file ? How do I get rid of/truncate it ?
The ldf file is a part of the database. You can't get rid of it. If you consider it being too large,
then you should read in Books Online about recovery model and decide whether or not you want to do
regular transaction log backups. If you have had the db in full recovery model and not been doing
regular transaction log backups and have a very large ldf file, you can shrink it using DBCC
SHRINKFILE. Also check out http://www.karaszi.com/SQLServer/info_dont_shrink.asp
Tibor Karaszi, SQL Server MVP
http://www.karaszi.com/sqlserver/default.asp
http://www.solidqualitylearning.com/
Blog: http://solidqualitylearning.com/blogs/tibor/
"bthouin" <bernard_thouin@.bluewin.com> wrote in message
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> THANK YOU ! I DID turn it on, and did not see any log at all coming up, so I thought it had not
> worked and totally forgot about it !
> Yes, now my Enterprise Manager is back to normal.
> You made my day ! Sometimes, it's so simple...
> Ah, what a relief it is...
> And what about my <database>_Log.LDF file ? How do I get rid of/truncate it ?
> Regards, and thanks again.
> Bernard
>
> Tibor Karaszi wrote: