sqlservr.exe?

I have tried googling this before, and I can't really figure out what it is. But, I am really curious what it is, why its always running, and why it is using almost 100 MB of RAM. I have plenty of ram, but I am annoyed with my really long hibernate times, and if this can go, that would shave a lot of time off. Any information for me?

 

It's a SQL server execution file. If you don't want it, disable MySQL, IIS or something web server related from services.

 

It's probably MSSQL, as that's not the process name of MySQL (which is mysqld.exe if you cared)

Do you have any programs installed that use an SQL server? Anything custom or non-standard? Games, services, anything?

 

Funny story, I looked and I apparently have Microsoft SQL Server 2005 installed. No idea where I got that or why. But, I figure out disabling it. It went from almost 100 MB of RAM to a few K of RAM used. Between that and one other change I made, my hibernate time is down drastically.

 

I've got Microsoft SQL Server 2005 preinstalled with computer? Do I need?? I wanna get rid of it but scared it might mess up the OS or something like that cause it came with it.

 

You won't need the server unless you plan on doing some dynamic web development or database management on your computer.

 

Thanks for the info.

 

Yeah good to know you figured out why it was 100mb.

I just checked mine and it's running at 6700K

 

Hmm...mine jumped back to 90 MB. Time to permanently kill that sucker.

 

One time I deleted it entirely from my XPS.

Nothing happened.

The next day XP would not even function.

It was the only change I could think of that could have caused it...

I dunno...I'm scared to mess with SQL.exe now.

 

I'm just annoyed by the damn thing. It is eating up a lot of memory that I don't want it to, because I want to hibernate faster.

 

Hibernation sucks up HD space sir!

Which is more important?! RAM OR HD?!

I say HD!

=P But I have a lot of RAM on my machine's so I dunno.

Tomorrow I have to bring my startup processes on my Thinkpad (68) to as low as possible...Doesn't that sound like fun?

 

I can afford to leave 2 GBs free for hibernation, I have tons of hard drive space. I prefer to have the speed of hibernation.

 

I asked a question earlier on these forums about the addresses of the contents of RAM, basically how the OS keeps track of which address gets what byte when you copy it back from the HDD. The reason is, I've heard of programs that become non-responsive or crash all together coming back from Hibernation, and I think it's because of the way the copying works. I believe not only is copying the exactly 2GB (or whatever amount of mem) back necessary, it is also necessary to copy them to the exact physical addresses.

Any thoughts?

P.S. Oh sorry didn't address sqlserv; yeah I've heard of them getting slipstreamed into Vista and the occasional XP install, sometimes from universities. Feel free to get rid of it, though it's handy for programming projects like games or the like. MySQL works just as well.

 

I set it to manual mode, so I will monitor it, and if it comes back on, its getting the disabled treatment. We will see what happens with that..

 

Jeez... you Windows people sure are superstitious, aren't you?

SQL.exe isn't needed for ANY essential Windows services or anything. It MAY be needed for some other program that you've installed on your machine. Feel free to uninstall it completely, rather than just disabling the service, but first test out ALL your programs while the service is disabled, especially the ones you absolutely cannot live without.

 

I just wanted to make sure I wasn't destroying a service I need. This is part of why I like linux, and keep trying to use it permanently.

 

Don't set it to manual mode, set it as disabled. Unless you are using an MS SQL server database on your computer for web development (or for any Windows software you develop yourself), you don't need it for anything. There is no common open source or commercial software that requires an SQL server database on your computer that I know of. If so, you should use some other software. When it's installed, it gets installed as a "service" which starts up automatically after booting. No point having it run if you don't need it. You can even uninstall it completely and it won't affect a thing. Did you happen to install a Visual Studio Express edition? MS SQL Server gets installed as an option with those.

 

Ah Rat Flail, the Japanese comic that keeps on giving...

I hope it's properly translated, I don't know any Japanese and they tell me a lot of the language gets censored or altered in the translation.

 

Are you sure I can uninstall it? What does this mean?

 

I am absolutely sure that you can uninstall MS SQL server any time you want to if you don't use it for anything. It's not an integral part of the operating system. Personally, I would just disable it. On the very odd chance that you have some software that queries an SQL database, you will know when you need to enable it.

 

...what Japanese comic? The guy's an anime fan, but given that his name is "Scott", I really doubt that he's Japanese.

www.vgcats.com is where I got it from... no translation needed

 

Ah well...must be the drawing style then.

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