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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Ed Wagner (11/17/2015)


    Brandie Tarvin (11/17/2015)


    Ed Wagner (11/17/2015)


    Lynn Pettis (11/16/2015)


    Ed Wagner (11/16/2015)


    Lynn Pettis (11/16/2015)


    And then you this type of question:

    ************(11/16/2015)


    How can i round off decimal number. E.g if i have 7.9---i...

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Ed Wagner (11/17/2015)


    Lynn Pettis (11/16/2015)


    Ed Wagner (11/16/2015)


    Lynn Pettis (11/16/2015)


    And then you this type of question:

    ************(11/16/2015)


    How can i round off decimal number. E.g if i have 7.9---i need to round it...

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  • RE: Backup file logical Names

    How are your backups being done? Is it a SQL Server maintenance job? Is it a third party tool? Is it a T-SQL job you created?

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  • RE: Performance impact of self-referencing Linked Server

    Functionally, so long as the linked server exists, you shouldn't have too much of a problem. But remember that it takes a little bit extra CPU to process those linked...

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  • RE: Doing a Search Replace Across a DB, with Wildcards

    You can also use "SELECT @sql" which will do the same thing as PRINT but just stick it in the RESULTS tab instead of the MESSAGES tab.

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  • RE: Copy of 1 TB prod database

    What kind of concurrency are you looking at? Can it be a day behind? Does it need to be instantly (or near instantly) current?

    What kind of backups are you...

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  • RE: Log file full-Unaable to run Backup log

    GilaMonster (11/16/2015)


    Steve Jones - SSC Editor (11/16/2015)


    If you can't do anything else, then you can use the WITH TRUNCATE option to clear the log

    Not on SQL 2008. WITH TRUNCATE_ONLY throws...

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  • RE: 150 GB Backup (compressed) taking over 1 day

    GilaMonster (11/17/2015)


    Go sit with your storage admin and see if the two of you can work out why you're getting such slow throughput on a SAN. Work with him, don't...

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    ChrisM@Work (11/17/2015)


    Brandie Tarvin (11/16/2015)


    Lynn Pettis (11/16/2015)


    Sorry, got snippy with an OP.

    50 lashes with a noodle please.

    My Patented Wet Noodle <tm> no less. Shame.

    EDIT: BTW, I'm teasing you, Lynn.

    Oh gosh, how...

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    WayneS (11/16/2015)


    Lynn Pettis (11/13/2015)


    (think government contracted software development).

    My scary story when working with the gov't.

    Software contract awarded, specified that all data access has to go through stored procedures.

    They sent to...

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  • RE: SQL 2012 - SSRS - Excel rendering error

    balasach82 (11/16/2015)


    Is it because of Excel 2003. If I point it to Excel 2010/2013, would it be resolved?

    I don't know. You'd have to do a google search for the max...

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  • RE: Do i need to move system databases from 2008 to 2014 side by side upgrade

    Glad I could help.

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  • RE: Power Users data access - Use SSMS

    It depends on the power users and what they were trying to do.

    If they were just writing reports, we'd probably give them access to the SSRS adhoc reporting tools. On...

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  • RE: SQL 2012 - SSRS - Excel rendering error

    Looks like you either need to split the column to multiple smaller columns or do a LEFT() on the column to fit it into Excel.

    Alternatively, you could export it as...

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  • RE: Finding the Jobs status & duration

    Column run_duration is in sysjobhistory.

    EDIT: You also already have the start time. It's column run_time in sysjobhistory. Just pull it separately. Do a CASE to check the job status, the...

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