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  • RE: Backup Duration

    gmamata7 (6/17/2011)


    Question: Is my backup procedure good enough to take backup of Production database?

    Yes and no.

    Yes, because it's taking your backups.

    No, because to truly verify your backups, it's best to...

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  • RE: Datetime Conversion Issue in SSIS - Need Help

    paul.knibbs (6/17/2011)


    Brandie Tarvin (6/16/2011)

    Notice the difference in the accuracy.

    They look the same to me--0.000, 0.003 or 0.007 means 3 divisions in 1/100th of a second, which is 1/300th second accuracy....

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    GSquared (6/17/2011)


    george sibbald (6/17/2011)


    quick straw poll if you don't mind guys -

    how much access should developers have in a development environment?

    As much as they need. Really, in a dev...

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  • RE: temp table in user database?

    Jeff Moden (6/17/2011)


    Brandie Tarvin (6/16/2011)


    However, a lot of people I know use staging tables that they create and drop at need in a user db. These are permanent tables, even...

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  • RE: How to remove duplicates from column without using Temp table

    Jeff Moden (6/17/2011)


    Brandie Tarvin (6/16/2011)


    If you don't have an Identity, add it to the table.

    I prefer a method which exploits the IDENTITY column, as well, but it's just not possible...

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  • RE: Restoring a dropped table

    John Mitchell-245523 (6/17/2011)


    Brandie, a full backup doesn't break the log chain, although a lost or corrupted log backup certainly would.

    Oh, yes. And finding that bit of information out when you...

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  • RE: Restoring a dropped table

    John,

    Sorry. You are correct. A full backup doesn't usually break the log chain.

    I suppose I should have just said "chain" without the "log" because I've seen people do...

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  • RE: Help me

    Craig Farrell (6/17/2011)


    Phil Parkin (6/17/2011)


    Actually, I was wondering about that. Does that mean the problem is that she has to get a full blow version of SQL Server to get...

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  • RE: Missing Drive where SQL Server instance installed - Urgent help required

    Glad we were able to help.

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  • RE: How to remove duplicates from column without using Temp table

    vaibhavraut88 (6/16/2011)


    Great Job dude ur script works. but can u explain me that code.

    Look up Common Table Expressions and Row_Number() in Books Online, or Google the phrases. There's a lot...

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  • RE: Expression Builder Elipse Button(...) Does Not Appear

    Sachin4all (6/16/2011)


    I installed 2005 sp2 and got it fixed

    Ahha! Ye ol' Microsoft Bugginess were the problem, were it?

    That makes sense. Glad you got it fixed.

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  • RE: temp table in user database?

    sqlnes (6/16/2011)


    We have heavy IO on tempdb right now and the size of tempdb grow rapidly. ... Our programmers use temp table a lot.

    Hey, be careful about this correlation.

    Temp...

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  • RE: Restoring a dropped table

    Since no one actually verified this for him:

    hammad772001 (6/16/2011)


    So it means that we can only mirror the backup copies of the Transaction Logs, but not the LDF files themselves. So...

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  • RE: Help me

    Craig Farrell (6/16/2011)


    Brandie Tarvin (6/16/2011)


    But the OP is having issues with SQL Express 2008.

    Just re-went through the thread and we're on the 2k5 forum... where am I not seeing the...

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  • RE: Help me

    Craig Farrell (6/16/2011)


    I'd heard rumors of transactions and checkpoints not behaving nicely in 2k5, I'm going to need to explore a few other packages I'd expected to behave themselves.

    I've had...

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