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  • RE: Strange

    Does your system time match current time? If so, run something that will write an event to the SQL Server log like a DBCC CHECKDB (model) and see if you...

    David

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  • RE: Daily Dropping and Reinstating of Transactional Replication

    matt.ma (2/8/2009)


    I have considered transaction logging but was under the impression that it would not be all that suitable as it is desirable that SQL have exclusive access to the...

    David

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    “He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose” - Jim Elliot

  • RE: Pausing Replication

    Yes. Check out this link to make sure you have everything covered.

    Could you also consider log-shipping for this as well? A bit less complicated of a configuration.

    David

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    “He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose” - Jim Elliot

  • RE: Daily Dropping and Reinstating of Transactional Replication

    Sounds painful. Any reason you couldn't do log shipping? Curious.

    I can't think of any side effects but I can't believe it would go smoothly all the time. Dropping replication...

    David

    @SQLTentmaker

    “He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose” - Jim Elliot

  • RE: Pausing Replication

    You can stop the jobs thereby pausing replication. There are some caveats to this so the script gets a bit tricky. If you send me a private message (check my...

    David

    @SQLTentmaker

    “He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose” - Jim Elliot

  • RE: Guest Editorial: Do You Run Antivirus Software on Your SQL Servers?

    Yes, we run AV software on our SQL boxes. I was dead set against this for the longest time but most of the AV software folks have become intelligent about...

    David

    @SQLTentmaker

    “He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose” - Jim Elliot

  • RE: Export SQL Data to Excel

    Two quick ways:

    1. Use Excel query and save the spreadsheet with the query contained in it (along with the data source). Have it refresh on open. Lots of help...

    David

    @SQLTentmaker

    “He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose” - Jim Elliot

  • RE: Backup file issue

    Kind of hard to tell. Did the backup job fail due to lack of space? Ultimately the backup will occur first then the old file will be deleted - or...

    David

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    “He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose” - Jim Elliot

  • RE: Backup file issue

    What version of SQL Server, what service pack?

    David

    @SQLTentmaker

    “He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose” - Jim Elliot

  • RE: Cleaning up Backups

    If you are using 2005 SP1 and you are using the maintenance plans to delete your files then you may be running into a known issue that was fixed in...

    David

    @SQLTentmaker

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  • RE: Trigger Problem-Urgent

    Nice, clearly I wasn't thinking!!! Thanks!

    David

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  • RE: Here is A Default Trace Example of all trace files

    Nice Lowell! I review the default trace a good bit and I'm sure this will be useful!

    David

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  • RE: SQL Server Agent Error in Replication

    Can you post details of what you were doing and when you got the error. You should be able to post a screenshot of the error in your reply as...

    David

    @SQLTentmaker

    “He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose” - Jim Elliot

  • RE: Trigger Problem-Urgent

    Triggers work off of DML actions being performed against the table, i.e. insert, update, delete. They don't fire off randomly or on a schedule.

    It sounds like you need to...

    David

    @SQLTentmaker

    “He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose” - Jim Elliot

  • RE: Heap tables and performance.

    Just to help but I believe the articles that GSquared was referring to was this[/url] and this[/url].

    Please correct me if I am wrong.

    David

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    “He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose” - Jim Elliot

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