"Resource is low, some results are dropped"

I've been getting this message in a dialog box intermittently. Most recently
when trying to execute 'select @.@.trancount' after a statement attempted to
insert 100 rows into a table with only 10 rather small, varchar(256) columns
Everything that turned up on a Google search basically said throw more
hardware at it. I'd like to know what the underlying issue is. I'm on a 3ghz
pentium 4 with 1 gig of ram. Task Manager shows total Physical Memory(K) of
1039304, available memory = 333208(K) and System Cache = 507972 along with
2% CPU so I don't believe that it's a memory issue or more hardware will
solve the underlying issue.
Does anyone have an answer for this other than throw more hardware at it?
Where do you see this error? Query Analyzer?
Tibor Karaszi, SQL Server MVP
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"Barry Forrest" <barry.forrest@.no-spam.ps.net> wrote in message
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> I've been getting this message in a dialog box intermittently. Most recently
> when trying to execute 'select @.@.trancount' after a statement attempted to
> insert 100 rows into a table with only 10 rather small, varchar(256) columns
> Everything that turned up on a Google search basically said throw more
> hardware at it. I'd like to know what the underlying issue is. I'm on a 3ghz
> pentium 4 with 1 gig of ram. Task Manager shows total Physical Memory(K) of
> 1039304, available memory = 333208(K) and System Cache = 507972 along with
> 2% CPU so I don't believe that it's a memory issue or more hardware will
> solve the underlying issue.
> Does anyone have an answer for this other than throw more hardware at it?
|||Hi,
Looks like you are executing the query in GRID result pane in query
analyzer. Could you change the mode to Text and try.
How to change:-
1. In query analyzer
2. Go to Query menu
3. Select "Result in Text"
4. Execute the query.
Thanks
Hari
SQL Server MVP
"Barry Forrest" <barry.forrest@.no-spam.ps.net> wrote in message
news:DB948FD8-DF27-4EC3-AA40-59F9718318FB@.microsoft.com...
> I've been getting this message in a dialog box intermittently. Most
> recently
> when trying to execute 'select @.@.trancount' after a statement attempted to
> insert 100 rows into a table with only 10 rather small, varchar(256)
> columns
> Everything that turned up on a Google search basically said throw more
> hardware at it. I'd like to know what the underlying issue is. I'm on a
> 3ghz
> pentium 4 with 1 gig of ram. Task Manager shows total Physical Memory(K)
> of
> 1039304, available memory = 333208(K) and System Cache = 507972 along
> with
> 2% CPU so I don't believe that it's a memory issue or more hardware will
> solve the underlying issue.
> Does anyone have an answer for this other than throw more hardware at it?
|||Or use the shortcuts CTRL + T for text mode, CTRL + D for grid
http://sqlservercode.blogspot.com/
"Hari Prasad" wrote:

> Hi,
> Looks like you are executing the query in GRID result pane in query
> analyzer. Could you change the mode to Text and try.
>
> How to change:-
> 1. In query analyzer
> 2. Go to Query menu
> 3. Select "Result in Text"
> 4. Execute the query.
> Thanks
> Hari
> SQL Server MVP
>
>
> "Barry Forrest" <barry.forrest@.no-spam.ps.net> wrote in message
> news:DB948FD8-DF27-4EC3-AA40-59F9718318FB@.microsoft.com...
>
>
|||re: Resource is low, some results are dropped
There are a few different reasons this could happen.
1) Not patched up! Make sure you have the latest patches from Microsoft.
Service Packs
http://www.microsoft.com/sql/downloads/2000/sp4.mspx
Security Patches
You can check Technet for the latest patches...
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/current.aspx
2) How, and how many, results are returned.
Query Analyzer returns results in one of two ways when you execute SQL Statements (Text or Grid) It can execute and return the most complicated queries from huge databases with large result sets.
However, it has a problem returning multiple results to grid. Each grid requires a certain amount of resources, and if you execute a large number of queries, it eventually will run out memory and drop some results.
I was looping throogh sysobjects and syscolumns, executing a select statement on every column for every table. (Code GEnerator) It was trying to open a grid for every column in my database. Not that Pubs or Northwind would cause it, but my production da
tabase had a lot more objects. My guess is that this requires too many resources to complete.
If I changed the output for executing the queries to text mode, or I printed the information to the screen instead of executing t-SQL I did not get the error.
Try running it in text mode. Menu Bar - Query - Results in grid or Results in Text.
The keyboard shortcuts are Ctrl+D for Grid and Ctrl+T for Text.
Mike Pittser
Database Architect
sql2k5dba@.yahoo.com
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