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  • RE: SQL DBA high ended question (5+ years’ experience)

    GilaMonster (8/15/2014)


    Evil Kraig F (8/15/2014)


    Is it bad that my first question is to the reporting team guy: "Which reports, and what's their SLA's?" while asking the QA person to email...

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  • RE: SQL DBA high ended question (5+ years’ experience)

    Evil Kraig F (8/15/2014)


    Brandie Tarvin (8/15/2014)


    It's Wednesday. 3 people walk up to your cube. One is from the QA team, one is from the reporting team, and one is a...

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  • RE: SQL DBA high ended question (5+ years’ experience)

    I'm thinking about the original post and I think I'd ask questions like this:

    It's Wednesday. 3 people walk up to your cube. One is from the QA team, one is...

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  • RE: SQL DBA high ended question (5+ years’ experience)

    GilaMonster (8/11/2014)


    paul.knibbs (8/11/2014)


    Jeff Moden (8/9/2014)

    With the understanding you have of that counting problem and the additional understanding that I don't ask "trick" questions or questions based on trivia, explain or...

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  • RE: How to connect to SQL server named instance on a static port

    Have you tried connecting to SQL without the ",<portnumber>" yet?

    At my workplace, we had an issue way back when where the port number was required until our networking team fixed...

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  • RE: Prevent RENAME of a database

    Igor Micev (8/15/2014)


    Brandie Tarvin (8/15/2014)


    What about DDL Triggers? Could those rollback any attempt at renaming a database?

    I have already tried with a DDL trigger on instance level to catch the...

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  • RE: Preventing Duplicate Rows On An Insert

    Why not just use a LEFT OUTER JOIN to check for existence?

    DECLARE @LogId INT, @L INT, @E INT;

    SET @LogId = NULL;

    SET @L = 17;

    SET @E = 9999;

    INSERT INTO t...

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  • RE: Prevent RENAME of a database

    What about DDL Triggers? Could those rollback any attempt at renaming a database?

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  • RE: Compare two columns

    I'm not even seeing the logic between the 3 columns of the original data and the rows that appear to have more than three values.

    Please post your table DDL and...

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  • RE: Backup SQL settings?

    lptech (8/15/2014)


    At least in SQL Server 2014, SSIS packages all won't have to be modified

    YIKES! I forgot about mentioning this. NAS shares, SSIS packages saved on the File level...

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  • RE: Manually failing over a mirror without access to Primary Server

    John Mitchell-245523 (8/15/2014)


    Brandie

    Is it a witness you're looking for?

    John

    I wish. Corporate set up the mirroring without a witness server. @=(

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  • RE: Sleeping Log Reader Agent blocking Distribution clean up job

    I think it would help us to know what your replication set up is.

    What type of replication?

    What is the latency / timing?

    Approximately how many subscriptions do you have...

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  • RE: Backup SQL settings?

    Our business has 2 data centers. We replicate every single backup (including the system DBs) to the other data center. If we lose the server, there are two places we...

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  • RE: DB transaction log file on a shared hosting service

    matt6749 (7/30/2014)


    After shrinking I will rebuild the indexes to help reduce the fragmentation.

    I have some pretty bad news for you. Rebuilding the indexes will reduce fragmentation, but will increase the...

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  • RE: DB transaction log file on a shared hosting service

    samanta0rodriges (7/30/2014)


    why won't Shrinkfile help?

    If you are not regularly backing up the transaction logs, the log won't free up any space. It will hold onto all the space it has...

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