"Thank you"s are definitely one of the non-pay recognition factors that I count as an important thing.  It's amazing how two little phrases ("thank you" and "please") transform a potentially dull and...

A boss who is reasonable in his/her demands and willing to stand up to the end users and the higher-ups for the employees under him.

A team that communicates and mostly gets...

Looks like this is a new forum.  Perhaps created or requested by RedGate??  Maybe it's supposed to be internal to them.

Anyway, there's no moderator associated with it, so I think...

We've tried everything we can think of to deploy properly.  Our problem is that we don't have separate servers for Dev/Test/QC.  We've got the same server for all three with...

Lee,

Thanks for the response.  I posted a reply on your thread as to what we finally figured out the problem was.  We don't have a solid resolution yet that applies...

Lee,

You replied to my post and I'm going to now reply to yours.  Several days after I originally posted, I found the problem with our situation & config files.

When you...

Thank you for the information and the link.  It is greatly appreciated!

You need a case statement in the WHERE clause of your procedure.

My situation is doing a Data Dictionary where I give the user an option to choose a...

There is another option.  Make some of your filegroups READ ONLY, then backup only the filegroups that are READ/WRITE.  @=)  (see Partial Backups in BOL)

Or do put your large table on its...

I'd recommend running SQL Server Profiler to see if there are any other jobs running after the backup which are still using those resources.  If not, run Windows Performance Monitor...

Also, as an FYI, while xp_cmdshell by itself is considered a security issue, it is disabled by default in SQL Server 2005.  So if you (and no one else) has...

Check BOL for the following keywords "Full-Text Search [SQL Server], performance".  There's a ton of information on the page, so I'm not going to quote it, but I think your...

To answer the second question first, I'm betting the USB connector is the issue for the slowness of the backup.  USB isn't quite up to speed with other disk drive...

Individual database collations can be "changed" when they are created, but the System DBs get their settings from the server itself.  So, if you want to change TempDB, you'll have...

Simpler way to do this?  No.  SSIS is capable of doing so much more than DTS that the this task has become a bit more complicated rather than being streamlined.

However,...