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  • RE: Best Practices for Database Design

    Here you are confusing the issues again.  I am not naming the set of employees "employee" I am naming the variable that contains the set "employee"

    Nobody would argue that the...

  • RE: Best Practices for Database Design

    "Every tuple is itself a relation. This concept is called "relational closure," and it's very important -- this closure is the reason that I've noted elsewhere in the thread that,...

  • RE: Best Practices for Database Design

    I, for one don't care what the iso standard says, they are wrong.  A table does not represent a set of entities.  Tables represent a single predicate function.  So the...

  • RE: Best Practices for Database Design

    It's been a long time since I looked at Great Plains and that was before MS bought them.  Two points: 1) I wouldn't be surprised to see a bunch of "legacy"...

  • RE: Best Practices for Database Design

    True, views are not IDENTICAL in their behavior when it comes to DML operations (this is one of the major problems with SQL but that is another discussion.)  However, according...

  • RE: LogPI or Logexplorer?

    I haven't tried LogPI and when I purchased Log Explorer, I don't think LogPI existed so I never compared them side to side.  That said, I will say that Lumigent...

  • RE: SQL Server Agent hangs with MAPI exe Job

    Have you tried running it from Query Analyzer using xp_cmdshell?

  • RE: Suggestion for executing SQL Script in batch

    Who or what manages the changes to the script?  Is Monday always the same?  If monday, Tues, etc... are always the same (but different from each other) then you'll need...

  • RE: backup the active transaction log

    What happened, what exactly have you done, and what error are you getting?  More detail would be helpful.

     

  • RE: How to backup before doing DB update

    If you make changes to a table then add/modify data, then discover a problem that requires you to rollback the changes to the table, isn't it a pretty safe assumption...

  • RE: Server logins as "dbo" database login causing problems.

    Not a bug, BOL states that the new owner account cannot "become the owner of the current database if it already has access to the database through an existing alias or...

  • RE: Programming a loop in a DTS

    Good call, I should have thought of sqldts.com...  This article details one method of doing this.  It's a bit different than what I suggested, but I didn't provide the code

  • RE: Programming a loop in a DTS

    Roughly, you could create a step that checks for the existence of a file in the directory.  If a file exists read the first file name into a global variable. ...

  • RE: Truncate and Delete

    Actually, TRUNCATE is logged, and it can be rolled back.  DELETE operations log the deletion of each row, while TRUNCATE logs the dealocation of data pages.  This is a very common...

  • RE: Access denied for bulk insert data file

    The SQL Server service account needs read access to the directory in question.

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