For your error "write failure on backup device 'D:\admin\backup\bx01t_db.DAT' ... The system cannot find the file specified"

If you open a command prompt on the server and run:

DIR D:\admin\backup\bx01t_db.DAT

Is the file...

There is a way to allocate specific CPUS to an application under SQL Server 2005 as explained on Slava Oks's blog at http://blogs.msdn.com/slavao/archive/2005/08/18/453354.aspx.

This week one of our customers had...

The root cause is that for triggers, when the number of rows affected is significantly different that the prior execution of the trigger, SQL Server automatically creates a new execution...

Aaron & Paul White:

I tried out Paul alternative solution by changing my posted trigger Revision2.PurchasesLatest_tau

Carl's code

FROMdeleted AS Old

INNER LOOP JOIN

Revision2.PurchasesLatest Cur -- WITH (FORCESEEK)

ON Old.ProductTypeID = Cur.ProductTypeID

;

Changed to

FROMdeleted AS...

There are some performance comparisons of various techniques at http://weblogs.sqlteam.com/peterl/archive/2009/06/12/Timings-of-different-techniques-for-finding-missing-records.aspx

"NOT EXISTS" was the fastest for those specific test conditions.

Found a solution that allows multiple connections to be updating the same table, but of course, different rows without blocking occurring.

The solutions is to include the following two states:

1) ...

Dave Portas , SQL Server MVP, has a solution for this type of problem that has been published in Joe Celko's "SQL For Smarties" in Chapter 24.

CREATE TABLE Runs

(seq_nbr...

Paul White has posted his understanding of the problem and I am also waiting for confirmation or revision. I have these additional questions:

Are the provided table definition for the...

Aaron (6/13/2009)PS: Why go through all of the trouble creating this code and formatting it if it's just going to get hosed. I attached a text file with the formatting...

After applying SQL Server 2000 SP4, did you apply the AWE HotFix ?

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/899761

What you are requesting, a filtered index, is available under SQL Server 2008 but not under 2005

The 2008 syntax for a filtered index would be:

CREATE UNIQUE NONCLUSTERED INDEX...

For a user, SSMS will only list those objects where there is some privilege on that object.

Recommend is to create a database role, grant/deny privileges to the database...

There is script in the SSC library titled "Delete old versions of DTS packages" which should solve your problem.. You can add the stored procedure and then have the...

Ken McKelvey's solution is much more elegant than mine. Ken's solution accesses the table once, compared to my solution, which accesses the table 3 times.

Very nice...

Here are two solutions, both of which are complicated because:

A) the table is denormalized as the BasePrices are an array with the column name indicating the month of the...