Enable Manual Check for Changes to Large Database

jkennedy · July 26, 2012 11:32AM

We have 2 of our 20 or so databases that are very large (30k objects). Right now, every time that I access those databases, a check for changes is triggered. This can take 20 minutes to an hour to complete. That entire time these activities are competing with more important processes. Is there a way to trigger a manual check once a week or so for these dbs? We're using TFS as a repository.

Eddie D · July 30, 2012 6:22AM

Thank you for your post into the forum.

I hope the following work around maybe useful to you:

If your server is struggling due to the default blue indicator polling frequency, it is possible to reconfigure it.

All SQL Source Control users need to set this individually.

To achieve this you will need to close SSMS, and edit the 'RedGate_SQLSourceControl_Engine_EngineOptions' in your SQL Source Control configuration directory. This is either: C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\Red Gate\SQL Source Control 3 or C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\Local Settings\Application Data\Red Gate\SQL Source Control 3 depending on your operating system version.

Add the following node (as a child of the EngineOptions node) to the file:

<PollingEnabled>False</PollingEnabled>

The regular polling on your server to determine what you've changed won't happen. This means that to see the blue indicators in the Object Explorer you will need to visit the Commit tab.

Many Thanks
Eddie

jkennedy · July 30, 2012 2:15PM

Thanks for the quick reply Eddie. I'm still unable to disable the auto check for updates. I updated RedGate_SQLSourceControl_Engine_EngineOptions.xml in
C:\Users\[my username]\AppData\Local\Red Gate\SQL Source Control 3\RedGate_SQLSourceControl_Engine_EngineOptions.xml to reflect the following:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-16" standalone="yes" ?>
- 
- <EngineOptions version="2" type="EngineOptions">
<PollingEnabled>False</PollingEnabled>
</EngineOptions>

Then completely restarted.

I also tried:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-16" standalone="yes" ?>
- 
- <EngineOptions version="2" type="EngineOptions">
<Polling-Enabled>False</Polling-Enabled>
</EngineOptions>

I'm still getting the auto-check for modifications. Is there anything else that I can try?

Eddie D · August 2, 2012 8:34AM

Thank you for your reply.

Not sure where or why you are picking up or including the SQL Compare infomation version information.

The RedGate_SQLSourceControl_Engine_EngineOptions.xml before editing should be as follows:

&lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16" standalone="true"?&gt;

&lt;!----&gt;
&lt;EngineOptions type="EngineOptions" version="2"/&gt;

After editing should look be as follows:

&lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16" standalone="true"?&gt;

&lt;!----&gt;
&lt;EngineOptions type="EngineOptions" version="2"&gt;
       &lt;PollingEnabled&gt;False&lt;/PollingEnabled&gt; 
&lt;/EngineOptions&gt;

Many Thanks
Eddie

jkennedy · August 8, 2012 9:59AM

Hello Eddie, thanks again for reaching out. Sorry for the confusion above. I was attempting a number of different options to try to get this to work. I applied to code below to C:\Documents and Settings\[my username]\Local Settings\Application Data\Red Gate\SQL Source Control 3\RedGate_SQLSourceControl_Engine_EngineOptions.xml and I still can't seem to disable polling. I'm not sure if it matters, but I do have SQL Server 2008r2, and SQL Server 2012 installed on my local. After making the change below, I attempted to access Source Control in each enviornment through SSMS and it is still "Checking for Changes" on initial click of each db.

&lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16" standalone="true"?&gt; 

&lt;!----&gt; 
&lt;EngineOptions type="EngineOptions" version="2"&gt; 
       &lt;PollingEnabled&gt;False&lt;/PollingEnabled&gt; 
&lt;/EngineOptions&gt;

I even tried deleting and reinstalling SQL Source Control and it didn't help. Any other thoughts?

Eddie D · August 8, 2012 10:41AM

Thank you for your reply.

Can you please try a slight alteration to the xml code and change the version number to 3, so it becomes:

&lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16" standalone="true"?&gt; 

&lt;!----&gt; 
&lt;EngineOptions type="EngineOptions" version="3"&gt; 
       &lt;PollingEnabled&gt;False&lt;/PollingEnabled&gt; 
&lt;/EngineOptions&gt;

One of my colleagues handled a similar call and the above change was made which resolved the issue and stopped the constant polling by SQL Source Control.

Many Thanks
Eddie

jkennedy · August 9, 2012 9:30AM

Greetings Eddie, thanks for helping me dig through. I implemented the code change you suggested below, and polling continues. I also tried the below version using standalone="yes" instead of standalone="true", as per some other XML posts that I came across. Do you have any other thoughts. Are any of these setting dependant on OS version, SQL version, or some other attribute? I'd also be happy to give you a call if that would make it easier.

 &lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16" standalone="yes" ?&gt; 
- &lt;!-- 
  --&gt; 
- &lt;EngineOptions type="EngineOptions" version="3"&gt;
  &lt;PollingEnabled&gt;False&lt;/PollingEnabled&gt; 
  &lt;/EngineOptions&gt;

jkennedy · August 10, 2012 11:42AM

Just offering an update: I uninstalled RegGate Source Control again and completely deleted the C:\Users\[me]\AppData\Local\Red Gate\SQL Source Control 3 directory. I then reinstalled based on the most recent developer bundle from the redgate site and updated RedGate_SQLSourceControl_Engine_EngineOptions.xml to look like this.

&lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16" standalone="yes"?&gt; 

&lt;!----&gt; 
&lt;EngineOptions type="EngineOptions" version="3"&gt; 
       &lt;PollingEnabled&gt;False&lt;/PollingEnabled&gt; 
&lt;/EngineOptions&gt;

After I restarted SSMS and relinked a database, I'm still polling. Any other thoughts?

Eddie D · August 14, 2012 5:05AM

Thank you for your reply.

I have been discussing your problem with my colleagues in the Support Team. My colleagues do not think that your issue is the polling problem. They suspect that your issue is this User Voice Forum TOPIC.

The topic is a request for the 'Commit Changes / Get Latest' to be a manual process and not be an automatic process. Can you please click on the link and read through this User Voice topic and if the topic matches your problem, can you please add a comment and vote for it?

Many Thanks
Eddie

jkennedy · August 14, 2012 9:27AM

Thanks Eddie. That pretty much sums it up. I really hope that this gets some looks from the dev team. And thanks again for all the time you put into answering my question.

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