Sounds to me like the test script is trying to alter some other account's login / permissions information. That might be why it needed SA access. Of course, the account...

PerfMon can also be used to check things like RAM usage, even for SQL Server. I can't remember which SQL Server counter it is, though, off the top of my...

Fernando,

You actually have a pretty good solution. Unless the table information needs to be further processed, that proc is a quick and dirty way to get the list. The proc...

You're asking us to diagnose a problem without telling us what your error is or your expected results from the comparison. If you truly believe a table JOIN is not...

A note on "sessions". In SSMS, a session is one continuously open query window or, in other SQL apps, one continuous connection. You can't do Identity Insert in two separate...

Did any of our comments help? Is your problem resolved?

Lynn,

I'm not talking values. I'm talking names. If the collation is not the same as the one he listed, then the name "trade_date" might not be the column name.

But again,...

Matt Miller (3/9/2009)

Why wouldn't it guarantee uniqueness? You end up with distinct combinations of each item in the GROUP BY list, which is essentially what the DISTINCT will do....

ACK! Domain Admin BAD karma for security reasons. Make the user account a plain...

I understand what you're saying about the timestamp perfectly. However, you're still sending a ton of records one way or the other over the network. Let me put it this...

If you aren't getting the values you expect, then something is wrong. Either your table / column is case sensitive despite the fact that your DB is case insensitive or...

When I talk about processing resources, I'm not talking about field by field. I'm talking about having to take the timestamp of your DW to the timestamp of either your...

NP. Hope it helps. @=)

Bob Hovious (3/9/2009)

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I have colleagues who use GROUP BY clauses without aggregation in place of a SELECT DISTINCT. The results appear to be the same. I've always used a DISTINCT...

sotn (3/9/2009)

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I wasn't suggesting to use Timestamp as a date comparison just a value comparison, as I would be doing a join based on the primary key field (not the...