AW: UPDATE: Intermittent, Spotty ARS Performance (UNCLASSIFIED)

2008-12-04 Thread Martin, Conny
] Im Auftrag von LJ Longwing Gesendet: Donnerstag, 4. Dezember 2008 03:31 An: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Betreff: Re: UPDATE: Intermittent, Spotty ARS Performance (UNCLASSIFIED) I completely agree that we are talking about a like statement on a wide table that won't use an index with over 500K records

Re: UPDATE: Intermittent, Spotty ARS Performance (UNCLASSIFIED)

2008-12-04 Thread Kaiser, Norm E CIV USAF AFMC 96 CS/SCCE
:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Martin, Conny Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2008 2:03 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: AW: UPDATE: Intermittent, Spotty ARS Performance (UNCLASSIFIED) There is an option in ar.conf Select-Query-Hint: NOLOCK Documentation says: The text to be used in a query hint

Re: UPDATE: Intermittent, Spotty ARS Performance (UNCLASSIFIED)

2008-12-04 Thread Kaiser, Norm E CIV USAF AFMC 96 CS/SCCE
System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of LJ Longwing Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2008 8:31 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: UPDATE: Intermittent, Spotty ARS Performance (UNCLASSIFIED) I completely agree that we are talking about a like statement on a wide

Re: UPDATE: Intermittent, Spotty ARS Performance (UNCLASSIFIED)

2008-12-04 Thread Kaiser, Norm E CIV USAF AFMC 96 CS/SCCE
: AW: UPDATE: Intermittent, Spotty ARS Performance (UNCLASSIFIED) There is an option in ar.conf Select-Query-Hint: NOLOCK Documentation says: The text to be used in a query hint (in the WITH clause of a SELECT statement) when queries are supplied to SQL Server databases. This parameter works

AW: UPDATE: Intermittent, Spotty ARS Performance (UNCLASSIFIED)

2008-12-04 Thread Martin, Conny
CIV USAF AFMC 96 CS/SCCE Gesendet: Donnerstag, 4. Dezember 2008 15:17 An: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Betreff: Re: UPDATE: Intermittent, Spotty ARS Performance (UNCLASSIFIED) *** ADDITIONAL THOUGHTS *** So I was thinking about this last night on the drive home. Here is what I believe is the anatomy

Re: UPDATE: Intermittent, Spotty ARS Performance (UNCLASSIFIED)

2008-12-04 Thread Hall Chad - chahal
@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: AW: UPDATE: Intermittent, Spotty ARS Performance (UNCLASSIFIED) Hi Norm, If you do a table scan on a huge table, then storage is the bottleneck. The data must be read from disk and that's slow. Kind Regards Conny -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Action Request System

Re: UPDATE: Intermittent, Spotty ARS Performance (UNCLASSIFIED)

2008-12-04 Thread LJ Longwing
, December 04, 2008 7:03 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: UPDATE: Intermittent, Spotty ARS Performance (UNCLASSIFIED) Thanks for the reply. I'm familiar with the FTS option, but unfortunately it's not an option because of a) Cost b) The site is running 6.3 and cannot upgrade (I don't think FTS

Re: UPDATE: Intermittent, Spotty ARS Performance (UNCLASSIFIED)

2008-12-04 Thread LJ Longwing
04, 2008 6:59 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: UPDATE: Intermittent, Spotty ARS Performance (UNCLASSIFIED) Thanks! Good article. I wasn't aware of the Select-Query-Hint: NOLOCK option for the ar.cfg. While I certainly don't doubt the power of Oracle, if Oracle doesn't lock the table or row

UPDATE: Intermittent, Spotty ARS Performance (UNCLASSIFIED)

2008-12-03 Thread Kaiser, Norm E CIV USAF AFMC 96 CS/SCCE
-Original Message- From: Kaiser, Norm E CIV USAF AFMC 96 CS/SCCE Sent: Tuesday, November 25, 2008 5:39 PM To: 'arslist@ARSLIST.ORG' Subject: RE: Intermittent, Spotty ARS Performance (UNCLASSIFIED) Well, a little bird (ahem...cough...Doug...cough) suggested I double up my list and fast threads, which

Re: UPDATE: Intermittent, Spotty ARS Performance (UNCLASSIFIED)

2008-12-03 Thread Darrell Reading
-Original Message- From: Kaiser, Norm E CIV USAF AFMC 96 CS/SCCE Sent: Tuesday, November 25, 2008 5:39 PM To: 'arslist@ARSLIST.ORG' Subject: RE: Intermittent, Spotty ARS Performance (UNCLASSIFIED) Well, a little bird (ahem...cough...Doug...cough) suggested I double up my list and fast

Re: UPDATE: Intermittent, Spotty ARS Performance (UNCLASSIFIED)

2008-12-03 Thread LJ Longwing
USAF AFMC 96 CS/SCCE Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2008 1:18 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: UPDATE: Intermittent, Spotty ARS Performance (UNCLASSIFIED) *** UPDATE *** Well, it appears I don't have to toilet paper my own house after all. As I reported below, I attempted to fix my problem

Re: UPDATE: Intermittent, Spotty ARS Performance (UNCLASSIFIED)

2008-12-03 Thread Kaiser, Norm E CIV USAF AFMC 96 CS/SCCE
To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: UPDATE: Intermittent, Spotty ARS Performance (UNCLASSIFIED) Is there something going on with that table that locks it when someone searches? Maybe it is as simple as changing the lockmode from table to row? Darrell Reading Systems Engineer Phone 479.204.5739 [EMAIL

Re: UPDATE: Intermittent, Spotty ARS Performance (UNCLASSIFIED)

2008-12-03 Thread Kaiser, Norm E CIV USAF AFMC 96 CS/SCCE
. Ideas? Norm -Original Message- From: Kaiser, Norm E CIV USAF AFMC 96 CS/SCCE Sent: Tuesday, November 25, 2008 5:39 PM To: 'arslist@ARSLIST.ORG' Subject: RE: Intermittent, Spotty ARS Performance (UNCLASSIFIED) Well, a little bird (ahem...cough...Doug...cough) suggested I double up my

Re: UPDATE: Intermittent, Spotty ARS Performance (UNCLASSIFIED)

2008-12-03 Thread Darrell Reading
: Intermittent, Spotty ARS Performance (UNCLASSIFIED) Well, it looks like I found it. Microsoft SQL handles lock escalation dynamically. The escalation can, well, escalate to a table lock. Here's Microsoft article on the issue: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/323630 I ran the Profiler, and sure enough

Re: UPDATE: Intermittent, Spotty ARS Performance (UNCLASSIFIED)

2008-12-03 Thread Kaiser, Norm E CIV USAF AFMC 96 CS/SCCE
(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Darrell Reading Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2008 4:10 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: UPDATE: Intermittent, Spotty ARS Performance (UNCLASSIFIED) I noticed that you can turn off the escalation and set the tables to lock row. The problem

Re: UPDATE: Intermittent, Spotty ARS Performance (UNCLASSIFIED)

2008-12-03 Thread LJ Longwing
) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kaiser, Norm E CIV USAF AFMC 96 CS/SCCE Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2008 2:14 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: UPDATE: Intermittent, Spotty ARS Performance (UNCLASSIFIED) Well, it looks like I found it. Microsoft SQL handles lock escalation

Re: UPDATE: Intermittent, Spotty ARS Performance (UNCLASSIFIED)

2008-12-03 Thread Darrell Reading
16:43 To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: UPDATE: Intermittent, Spotty ARS Performance (UNCLASSIFIED) I'm told by my DBA that it's possible to write 'dirty' queries that won't lock the DB, but I haven't been able to figure out how to make Remedy run them...it's basically an appendage to the end

Re: UPDATE: Intermittent, Spotty ARS Performance (UNCLASSIFIED)

2008-12-03 Thread Kaiser, Norm E CIV USAF AFMC 96 CS/SCCE
To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: UPDATE: Intermittent, Spotty ARS Performance (UNCLASSIFIED) I'm told by my DBA that it's possible to write 'dirty' queries that won't lock the DB, but I haven't been able to figure out how to make Remedy run them...it's basically an appendage to the end of the sql

Re: UPDATE: Intermittent, Spotty ARS Performance (UNCLASSIFIED)

2008-12-03 Thread LJ Longwing
: Re: UPDATE: Intermittent, Spotty ARS Performance (UNCLASSIFIED) Well, that's called SQL injection, but that doesn't apply here, as Remedy guards against it through parameterized statements. In this case, the dirty query isn't really dirty, it's just inefficient. That is, searching a massive diary

Re: Intermittent, Spotty ARS Performance (UNCLASSIFIED)

2008-11-25 Thread Kaiser, Norm E CIV USAF AFMC 96 CS/SCCE
, November 24, 2008 8:09 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Intermittent, Spotty ARS Performance (UNCLASSIFIED) ** Another thing could be your disk space getting full on the Remedy server. We had that issue recently when one of the operation some user would do would eventually timeout and would

Re: Intermittent, Spotty ARS Performance (UNCLASSIFIED)

2008-11-25 Thread Benedetto Cantatore
USAF AFMC 96 CS/SCCE [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Sent: Monday, November 24, 2008 12:58:53 PM Subject: Re: Intermittent, Spotty ARS Performance (UNCLASSIFIED) Yes, that's my suspicion. I have a big suspicion that people are searching the worklog diary field. -Original Message

Re: Intermittent, Spotty ARS Performance (UNCLASSIFIED)

2008-11-25 Thread Kaiser, Norm E CIV USAF AFMC 96 CS/SCCE
) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Benedetto Cantatore Sent: Tuesday, November 25, 2008 8:12 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Intermittent, Spotty ARS Performance (UNCLASSIFIED) ** Norm, Perhaps you need to steal an idea from version 7 and make the worklogs a parent-child relationship

Re: Intermittent, Spotty ARS Performance (UNCLASSIFIED)

2008-11-25 Thread Michaud, Christopher W Mr CTR USA MEDCOM USAMITC
: Tuesday, November 25, 2008 8:25 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Intermittent, Spotty ARS Performance (UNCLASSIFIED) Good suggestion...I'm pretty familiar with the new worklog model in version 7 and its advantages and disadvantages. Unfortunately, that entails a very large coding effort

Re: Intermittent, Spotty ARS Performance (UNCLASSIFIED)

2008-11-25 Thread Benedetto Cantatore
list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Benedetto Cantatore Sent: Tuesday, November 25, 2008 8:12 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Intermittent, Spotty ARS Performance (UNCLASSIFIED) ** Norm, Perhaps you need to steal an idea from version 7 and make the worklogs a parent-child

Re: Intermittent, Spotty ARS Performance (UNCLASSIFIED)

2008-11-25 Thread Kaiser, Norm E CIV USAF AFMC 96 CS/SCCE
, Norm E CIV USAF AFMC 96 CS/SCCE Sent: Tuesday, November 25, 2008 8:25 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Intermittent, Spotty ARS Performance (UNCLASSIFIED) Good suggestion...I'm pretty familiar with the new worklog model in version 7 and its advantages and disadvantages. Unfortunately

Re: Intermittent, Spotty ARS Performance (UNCLASSIFIED) (U)

2008-11-25 Thread Hennigan, Sandra H CTR OSD-CIO
Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kaiser, Norm E CIV USAF AFMC 96 CS/SCCE Sent: Tuesday, November 25, 2008 11:32 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Intermittent, Spotty ARS Performance (UNCLASSIFIED) Yeah, I've already considered that. I've already

Re: Intermittent, Spotty ARS Performance (UNCLASSIFIED)

2008-11-25 Thread LJ Longwing
] On Behalf Of Kaiser, Norm E CIV USAF AFMC 96 CS/SCCE Sent: Tuesday, November 25, 2008 9:32 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Intermittent, Spotty ARS Performance (UNCLASSIFIED) Yeah, I've already considered that. I've already interviewed the people who are the culprits and gotten

Re: Intermittent, Spotty ARS Performance (UNCLASSIFIED) (U)

2008-11-25 Thread Kaiser, Norm E CIV USAF AFMC 96 CS/SCCE
: Intermittent, Spotty ARS Performance (UNCLASSIFIED) (U) UNCLASSIFIED What about creating workflow to copy the final Work Log entry to the Solution Description field? Sandra Hennigan OSD Enterprise Remedy Administrator Office # 703-601-0789 Apparently, there is nothing that cannot happen today. Mark Twain

Re: Intermittent, Spotty ARS Performance (UNCLASSIFIED)

2008-11-25 Thread Mayfield, Andy L.
) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mayfield, Andy L. Sent: Tuesday, November 25, 2008 4:17 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Intermittent, Spotty ARS Performance (UNCLASSIFIED) We had a similar problem recently. We found that an Active Link was causing our problem. It was a newly created

Re: Intermittent, Spotty ARS Performance (UNCLASSIFIED)

2008-11-25 Thread Kaiser, Norm E CIV USAF AFMC 96 CS/SCCE
paper my own house. Norm -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mayfield, Andy L. Sent: Tuesday, November 25, 2008 5:02 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Intermittent, Spotty ARS Performance (UNCLASSIFIED) Never

Re: Intermittent, Spotty ARS Performance (UNCLASSIFIED)

2008-11-25 Thread LJ Longwing
25, 2008 4:39 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Intermittent, Spotty ARS Performance (UNCLASSIFIED) Well, a little bird (ahem...cough...Doug...cough) suggested I double up my list and fast threads, which I've done, and that seems -- at least on the surface -- to have corrected the problem. I

Re: Intermittent, Spotty ARS Performance (UNCLASSIFIED)

2008-11-24 Thread Michaud, Christopher W Mr CTR USA MEDCOM USAMITC
Classification: UNCLASSIFIED Caveats: NONE Norm, You may want to look closer at the SQL side. Look for locks. Perhaps someone querying a diary or un-indexed field. Also, are you using SQL replication? In particular, are snapshots turned on? Christopher Michaud -Original Message-

Re: Intermittent, Spotty ARS Performance (UNCLASSIFIED)

2008-11-24 Thread Kaiser, Norm E CIV USAF AFMC 96 CS/SCCE
, 2008 11:20 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Intermittent, Spotty ARS Performance (UNCLASSIFIED) Classification: UNCLASSIFIED Caveats: NONE Norm, You may want to look closer at the SQL side. Look for locks. Perhaps someone querying a diary or un-indexed field. Also, are you using SQL

Re: Searching Diaries WAS: Intermittent, Spotty ARS Performance (UNCLASSIFIED)

2008-11-24 Thread Michaud, Christopher W Mr CTR USA MEDCOM USAMITC
: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Michaud, Christopher W Mr CTR USA MEDCOM USAMITC Sent: Monday, November 24, 2008 11:20 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Intermittent, Spotty ARS Performance (UNCLASSIFIED) Classification: UNCLASSIFIED

Re: Intermittent, Spotty ARS Performance (UNCLASSIFIED)

2008-11-24 Thread Joe DeSouza
USAF AFMC 96 CS/SCCE [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Sent: Monday, November 24, 2008 12:58:53 PM Subject: Re: Intermittent, Spotty ARS Performance (UNCLASSIFIED) Yes, that's my suspicion.  I have a big suspicion that people are searching the worklog diary field. -Original Message