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  • RE: The Future of Knowledge Work

    I don't have the motivation to telecommute.  I live in a smallish city and my commute is easy.  Why should I provide space at home to do my work when...

  • RE: backup database

    Daniela,

    You should post this in the SQL Server 2005 Administration forum.  You'll probably get more responses there.

    Greg

  • RE: Backup Advice

    We use maintenance plans for re-indexing, etc. but backups are done with homegrown jobs.  We wanted to use differential backups, which aren't an option in maintenance plans.  We use a...

  • RE: DTS job fails

    Additionally, Meta Data Services repository was removed as a storage option for DTS packages by SQL 2000 SP3.  You'd be better off storing them in msdb's tables or as com...

  • RE: Managing Identity Values Between Multiple Databases

    Hi Aaron,

    Any idea why the values are out of sync?  An identity column only increments when a row is added to a table, so is it that you have different...

  • RE: SQL SERVER Backward Compatibility

    Look at "compatibility issues, backup and restore" in Books onLine.

    Greg

  • RE: Cross Database Permissions

    johng,

    Have you enabled cross-database ownership chaining for both databases?  You'll need this.

    A user doesn't need SELECT permission for a table that is used by a view.  That's why using views...

  • RE: DTS job fails

    Apparently, the package hadn't been saved to the repository prior to adding logging.  So, if you want to log to the repository, you must save the package to Meta Data...

  • RE: DTS job fails

    You'll get more information from the DTS package log.  If you haven't enabled logging in the packages, do so and start the job again.

    Greg

     

  • RE: Job History size

    We have ours set to 8000 and 400.  Haven't seen any performance problems.

    Greg

  • RE: BACKING UP SELECTED FILES

    If the backup file or filegroup option is grayed out in Enterprise Manager, it means the database is using the Simple recovery model.  File backups can be used only with...

  • RE: Need to identify all DTS packages using a specific filename

    MG is correct, the only way to search a DTS package for a string is to save it as a VB file.  BTW, packagedata is IMAGE datatype, which is binary. ...

  • RE: Passing a global variable to an Execute Package Task

    Make sure you're setting the outer global varible in the Execute Package task to calling package's global variable and that the global variable in the child package is spelled exactly the...

  • RE: Tansaction Logs

    Log Explorer can read logs that were created before it was installed.

    DC, you might try DBCC LOG to try to decypher what's in the T-log.  It's not nearly as easy...

  • RE: Restore a db

    Your options depend on how your backup and recovery plan is set up. 

    Do you want the database to retain the changes made by applications and discard the changes made...

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