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  • RE: PIVOT - Maximum number of pivoted columns

    As far as I know (and quickly poked around to see if I was horribly wrong) there's no hard-coded limit. There's obviously a point where the memory ends up...


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  • RE: Division within a table with 2 different conditions

    Hey Alan,

    I'm not entirely sure what you're trying to do here. I keep thinking I get the gist then realize I don't.

    If you take a look at the first...


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  • RE: Rebuliding Indexes

    YarHad (10/9/2012)


    GilaMonster (10/9/2012)


    Index rebuilds don't get written into the SQL Server error log. You could add a piece to your maintenance tasks to log that a rebuild was done if...


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  • RE: Please help with query

    Well said. To address a few of your points:

    ian_bauer (10/9/2012)


    I bought a book to learn from but wanted to get my foot in the door with the hopes that...


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  • RE: Adding PK to existing table - impact

    You need more space for your logs, you probably added the index to a huge table. If you're not in simple recovery mode, you need to do a log...


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  • RE: Please help with query

    ian_bauer (10/9/2012)


    its actually a,,,Im trying to get a job question. part of a series of questions.

    thanks for pointing me in the right direction.

    still would appreciate help, its a tough...


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  • RE: Please help with query

    As Rory mentioned above, this seems like homework. You want to inspect SELECT DISTINCT, GROUP BY, COUNT(*) and HAVING clauses for select statements. If you tell us what...


    - Craig Farrell

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  • RE: Roles Schemas and 2000

    n00bDBA (10/9/2012)


    So having no cluster Indexs on any tables and a few non-cluster is normal? i have a really small set of dbs to look at so just trying...


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  • RE: RS Scripter - Losing credentials when deploying

    jeremyisaacs (10/9/2012)


    The data for each of our clients may be stored on seperate SQL Server instances so we pass in the server name and database name per client. Some...


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  • RE: RS Scripter - Losing credentials when deploying

    jeremyisaacs (10/9/2012)


    A quick note. My connection strings are dynamic so I cannot use shared datasources. They must be embedded.

    I don't have a workaround to the specific...


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  • RE: Trouble dropping database

    mmontgo2 (10/9/2012)


    Version is:

    Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 (SP1) - 10.50.2500.0 (X64) Jun 17 2011 00:54:03 Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation Enterprise Edition (64-bit) on Windows NT...


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  • RE: Roles Schemas and 2000

    n00bDBA (10/9/2012)


    So apart from creating non-clusterd unique indexes on all there primary keys.. which from what i gather is pretty wierd...

    No, clustering all your PKs is actually what's usually...


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  • RE: stored procedure process with ssis

    wnarretto (10/8/2012)


    1. when the ssis package has completed, does it cut off the connection to the spocs that were called for the other iterations?

    Unless you're preserving your connection in...


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  • RE: Is it the same (nolock) and with(nolock)

    Yes, it's the same. It's also dangerous if you're unfamiliar with the pitfalls of uncommitted data access. Your best bet is RCSI instead. The links that Sean...


    - Craig Farrell

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  • RE: SSIS- Need File Name which i am loading in Variable

    More information as to what you're trying to do, please. That's rather vague.


    - Craig Farrell

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