"paging seems to be the problem"

Do you mean windows paging ? Is there anything running on the server other than SQL Server?

"A company I know of "

Good - I hope that means you are not an employee, so I do not need suggesting updating your resume.

This is going to be implemented...

Or the object is not a table !

create procedure dbo.MissingTable

as

select 'hello world

go

select * from SYSOBJECTS where name = 'MissingTable'

go

select * from dbo.MissingTable

go

drop procedure dbo.MissingTable

"Because the database will be handling different companies, with their own schema."

That is the wrong solution to the problem. Have one database for each company and each login has...

The correlated sub-query is definitely the culprit but there may not be an alternative, but try the last SQL statement below.

if object_id(N'sparseData') is not null ...

[font="Comic Sans MS"]If there is exactly one call and exactly 1 dropped call, then the result of the caculation will be 100.00 % but drop rate is defined as numeric(3,2),...

For error handling, please be sure to read Erland Sommarskog's article at

http://www.sommarskog.se/error-handling-I.html

In short, catch/try only works for some errors and I do not recommend any error checking inside of SQL...

The CTE solution, while elegent, does suffer from a higher resource utilization as the number of element increases. Here is an example with 887 elements.

SET STATISTICS IO ON

SET...

From the article, you wrote " Tally table .. starting at 0 or 1 (mine start at 1)"

There are advantages for having the Tally table include 0 and the...

Another great article ! Thanks

The first reference for a tally table that I can recall is in "Guide to Sybase and SQL Server" by C. J. Date and D.McGoveran...

" I have alert that exec a job but I don't know how to pass the alert message to the job."

The documentation regarding alert tokens ( variables ) is well...

Here is a stored procedure to list the resource usages for a given interval of time:

create PROCEDUREsp_resources

(@WaitSeconds TINYINT = 3

)

AS

SET NOCOUNT ON

SETXACT_ABORT ON

declare@WaitTimechar(8)

SET@WaitSeconds = 3

SET@WaitTime = '00:00:' +...

Under SQL Server 2000, "sys.sysprocesses" is not a known table and you should use "master.dbo.sysprocesses".

"SAN-to-SAN replication can account for cache contents during the replication process and at the time of a disastrous shutdown of the primary machine."

You do not need to worry about the...

Try using the sys.dm_exec_requests data management view for the basis information. The system function sys.dm_exec_sql_text can be used to get the currently executing SQL statement.

select sys.dm_exec_requests.*

,db_name(SQLText.dbid)

,SQLText.text

fromsys.dm_exec_requests

OUTER APPLY sys.dm_exec_sql_text(sys.dm_exec_requests.sql_handle) AS...