SQLSRVR.EXE

[Nitro]

can anyone tell me what SQLSRVR.EXE is?
I'm familiar with using MySQL db's on remote servers with regard to website
databases, but I'm not sure why this process is running on my XP home
computer. Is it part of Dreamweaver? Is is part of OpenOffice?

if it's unnecessary, I have no use for it, and would rather it not use up my
memory and CPU. can anyone tell me how to disable it? It shows up on my
sony laptop under services as SQLAgent$VAIO_VEDB ... but this is already
disabled. It shows up on my task mgr as "sqlservr.exe".

any advice welcome..

thanks

 

[Tim Meddick]

Stuff I found out about SQLSRVR.EXE:

(SQL) Structured Query Language

Designed for the retrieval and management of data
in relational database management systems (RDBMS).

SQL is a programming language for querying and
modifying data and managing databases.

SQLSRVR.EXE is part of database retrieval and management
and is very CPU intensive. I found literally HUNDREDS of
complaints about SQLSRVR.EXE hogging CPU time when I
googled it.

I'm sorry - I didn't find out what program installed it but I have
XP Pro with service pack 3 installed and it isn't present anywhere
on my system.

you might try doing a search for it's location on your hard-drive
- this might give you a clue as to what program it is designed to
be working with and whether you can do without it! Good luck
finding out more...

 

[Nitro]

Tim, Thanks for your help

All I could find (under services.msc) was a service I had already disabled,
called "SQLagent$VAIO_VEDB". I thought that disabling this would disable
the SQL service, but no luck.

it still runs in the task mgr.

the executable, "sqlservr.exe" resides in a folder under Program Files,
called Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL$VAIO_VEDB\Binn\. This folder seems to
have been installed at the same date the windows system was installed on
this computer, meaning it was initialized by the vendor of the laptop. I
know I tried out an older version of MS Frontpage just after I bought it,
then nuked it, so it may be a leftover of Frontpage 2002. That's my best
guess.

nuking SQLservr.exe from the task mgr seems to have no detrimental effect on
the computer.

a registry search lists it under:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Services\MSSQL$VAIO_VEDB] along
with 2 other control sets and a host of gibberish I don't understand, but
seems to contain no reference to software or vendors.

I am still mystified.

nitro

 

[Tim Meddick]

Hi Nitro,
Under your reg key:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Services\MSSQL$VAIO_VEDB]
there should be a value called "DisplayName" this is sometimes very
different from the executable name of the file the service invokes. This
name will be the one that appears in your Services.msc and disabling it
should stop the "sqlservr.exe" file from being started in the first place.
Seeing how terminating the process has no evil effect on your system then I
think it'll be safe to disable the service it belongs to.

Tim, Thanks for your help

All I could find (under services.msc) was a service I had already
disabled, called "SQLagent$VAIO_VEDB". I thought that disabling this
would disable the SQL service, but no luck.

it still runs in the task mgr.

the executable, "sqlservr.exe" resides in a folder under Program Files,
called Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL$VAIO_VEDB\Binn\. This folder seems to
have been installed at the same date the windows system was installed on
this computer, meaning it was initialized by the vendor of the laptop.
I know I tried out an older version of MS Frontpage just after I bought
it, then nuked it, so it may be a leftover of Frontpage 2002. That's my
best guess.

nuking SQLservr.exe from the task mgr seems to have no detrimental effect
on the computer.

a registry search lists it under:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Services\MSSQL$VAIO_VEDB] along
with 2 other control sets and a host of gibberish I don't understand, but
seems to contain no reference to software or vendors.

I am still mystified.

nitro