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  • RE: Which Microsoft SQL Server MCTS | MCITP To Do?

    From what I understand, SQL 2008 has more Administrator tools than 2005, but most of the developer tools have remained the same. Therefore, it would behoove your company to upgrade...

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  • RE: SSIS package multiple invocations - Urgent

    The biggest issue will be performance. SSIS is a memory hog and each instance of the package (if it even allows you to kick off the package multiple times at...

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  • RE: Loading flat files with different file formats

    Just add a flat file connection manager for each different file. Then, in your data flow, use them as multiple sources, join them with a UNION (works faster than a...

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  • RE: SSIS best practice for identiying/gathering WW data effeciently

    Timestamp is a really poor data type to use for any sort of date comparison. It isn't really a date, but an incrementing number that mimics an approximate date/time. It...

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  • RE: After re-installing SQL 2005 I'm having a problem attaching databases

    I had a similar problem a few times in the past when I was on SP1 for SQL 2005. I had to write out a T-SQL Statement instead of using...

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  • RE: I am getting the below error while executing the Job. Can any one advice me on this

    What kind of job are you executing? Sounds like an SSIS package error.

    What version of SQL Server are you using (including service pack)?

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  • RE: How to Check DB designs

    If the databases are being modified daily, there is something seriously wrong with the development process. There should be an SDLC (software development life cycle) process in place which forces...

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  • RE: Min valuse of Memory setting changed automatically!!!!!!

    So far as I know, SQL Server itself does not change the min value of the memory setting.

    Are you sure you're the only person with the security to go in...

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  • RE: Database Mail not sending the attached text file

    I'm going to assume you've already activated database mail & set up your profiles & accounts. However, as Tracey posted, test the dbmail proc in SSMS without an attachment to...

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  • RE: How to Check DB designs

    I would start off by getting the company a data modeling tool. Reverse engineer all the databases and then sort them in the diagram by purpose. We have a database...

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  • RE: SQL server not taking assigned memory

    You might want to check that the OS sees the RAM first. If it wasn't properly inserted or if the new RAM is bad too, that could cause a problem.

    Also,...

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  • RE: WMI event error

    Did you GOOGLE the error or "database_mirroring_state_change" yet? I see lots of articles on this issue just by googling the later.

    Try this to see if one of those articles helps...

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  • RE: Questions to ask your clients DBA?

    It's not just hardware & environment you need to be aware of. Things like available Firewall ports and security access are "need to knows" for installing third party products. How...

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  • RE: Foreach Loop - Variable Mappings Question

    I ended up populating a single variable with the full path and qualified name. Then used a script task within the loop to populate two more variables, source & destination....

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  • RE: Problem while trying to assign NULL value to a datatime column using Dervied column

    It's always good to see the "legacy" effects of old threads. @=)

    Glad it helped.

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