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  • RE: Alter Database with variable

    For non-production environments, below are the SQL statements that I versus SQL Server 2000 where some minor modifactions to run under 2005 are needed (change the names of the 2000...

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  • RE: High Disk Queue length

    Regarding antivirus, there are a lot of files and directories that needed to be excluded when running a cluster.

    http://support.microsoft.com/kb/822158 and http://support.microsoft.com/kb/250355

    Antivirus software that is not cluster-aware may cause unexpected problems...

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  • RE: Handling NULLs with MERGE Function

    Welcome to three value logic, which applies when a column may be null.

    Under two value logic, the expression if ( a = b or a != b ) is always...

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  • RE: High Disk Queue length

    I am getting High disk queue length when

    1) Full Backup is running

    2) Anti virus is running

    3)rebuild indexes

    4)DBCC CHECKDB

    High disk queue lengths are to be expected as these SQL Server operations...

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  • RE: Log Shipping Problem

    From "Implementing Log Shipping" at http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc917705.aspx

    Because log shipping relies on the SQL Server restore process, user connections to the standby database must terminate each time the transaction log is restored....

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  • RE: Is there a way to convert Japanese characters stored in ISO-8859-1 (in SQL Server column) to UTF-8?

    If the machine were you are running SQL Server Management Studio does not have the needed fonts installed to view these characters, the data will be garbabled"

    Do these appear correctly...

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  • RE: xp_cmdshell problem with path space

    Use a single quote around the entire command and double quotes to delimit the start and end of strings.

    exec master.dbo.xp_cmdshell 'dir "c:\program files\*.*" '

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  • RE: Unexpected result using FLOOR

    Book OnLine states that the FLOOR function returns the same datatype as the input but this statement is misleading because, for a NUMERIC datatype, the returned datatype is a NUMERIC...

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  • RE: Table won't release unused space

    As your table has four columns with the text datatype, you may encounter the situation described by the below MS information article, especially at you indicated that creating a copy...

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  • RE: Permissions required to edit DTS package

    Stored procedure msdb.dbo.sp_reassign_dtspackageowner can be used to change the owner of a DTS package but MS has hard-code logic to restrict the usage only to the current package owner or...

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  • RE: how many db's on one server

    As others have indicated, the limiting factor is the load the applications put on the server. For example, I support a SQL Server 2000 that has over 6,500 databases...

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  • RE: How many concurrent users???

    Itzik Ben-Gan, a SQL Server MVP, has exactly the solution !

    The problem involves calculating the maximum number of concurrent sessions for each application that an organization uses. For this problem,...

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  • RE: Get Tables by column name

    What are the advantages of this SQL over using the INFORMATION_SCHEMA views defined in the ISO SQL standard?

    select *

    from INFORMATION_SCHEMA.COLUMNS

    WHERE COLUMN_NAME LIKE '%Employee_Id%'

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  • RE: Sql Server (Recommended) Configuration Settings : 2000 & 2005

    Your post indicates a 160 GB HDD - is this a SATA, ATA, or IDE drive ?

    In order to insure data integrity, the disk drive cache must be disabled or...

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  • RE: Computed column formula with join

    A computed column cannot be used as defining expression may only reference base columns within the same table.

    You will need to add a physical column and then use a trigger...

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