Hardware or driver errors often will have these events in the system event log:

The Driver was unable to obtain the HBA slot number for ScsiPort 3. No extended information in...

The original SQL command can be obtained using DBCC INPUTBUFFER

You will need to parse out the stored procedure name from various possibilities including:

exec sp_spaceused 'Party' , 'true'

execute sp_spaceused 'Party'...

In the SHRINKFILE statement, you have specified TRUNCATEONLY, which de-allocate starting from the end of the file to the begining of the file until the first extent with any data...

Use the "LEFT OUTER JOIN" option as described in Books OnLine:

SELECT ada_category.catname

,ada_category.catamount

,ATA_SurveyPurchase.purchasedate

,ATA_SurveyPurchase.taken

,ATA_SurveyPurchase.UniqueId

FROM ada_categorycat

LEFT OUTER JOIN

ATA_SurveyPurchase

ON ATA_SurveyPurchase.catid = ada_category.catid

AND ATA_SurveyPurchase.userid = 2

ORDER BY ATA_SurveyPurchase.purchasedate...

If you a member of the local administrators group and there a SQL Server login named BUILTIN\Administrators, then you can connect with sysadmin privileges.

BUILTIN\Administrators and "SA" are created as part...

From benchmarks I have run using SQLIOStress, having the data and log files on separate RAID-1 drives increases thruput by a factor of 6 compared to both on the same...

For database files ( mdf, ndf and ldf extensions), if the files are properly sized then there should be no need to perform disk defragmentation. As "SQL Oracle" indicated, defragmentation...

The SQL Standard syntax for renaming a columns is

ALTER TABLE [owner.]table-name

RENAMEcolumn-name TO new-column-name

SQL Server does not support the standard syntax including 2008. Instead the system procedure...

Read your post and an running tests including scalability tests.

The testing is being performed versus a table containing database file io statistics that have been gathered each hourly...

Based on a test, 512 WHEN are accepted.

When there is a function used in the select and the grouping, I have seen cases where the optimizer is confused if everything is not typed identically - do not...

Re: your performance difference, you have a tautology in the first SQL Statment. "c.caseid = c.caseid"

SELECT convert(varchar,c.lastupdated,101)

,cast(count(b.defendantid) as float)/cast(count(a.defendantID) as float)

FROM dbo.ActivityReceipt c(nolock)

inner join [dbo].[Defendants] a(nolock) on(c.caseid =...

Regarding order of CAST ( COUNT() ) , setting showplan_text on shows that the COUNT is performed before the CAST.

StmtText

SELECT CAST( count(type) as float) / CAST( count(number ) as float)...

sp_cursoropen, sp_cursorfetch and sp_cursorclose are used when a SQL Statement includes local and a remote tables such as

select * from localtable join Remote.DB.owner.remotetable on

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Effectively, for each row...

Without knowing the primary key and foreign keys, this will be difficult to solve. Here is guess at your schema:

create table SurveyQuestions

( QuestionID

PRIMARY KEY ( QuestionID ) )

create table...