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  • RE: how to proceed with learning?

    Larry,

    No problem. I'm glad you see that it is not a trivial thing to make the jump from Access/VBA.

    Almost all of your questions are not SQL Server 2008...

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    jcrawf02 (6/2/2011)


    I'm going to need to figure out how to hook up with you guys with an ancient, Twitter-impaired phone.

    Ha! Maybe you'll all have to post on The Thread....

  • RE: Adding a Primary Key

    PK's are added to the table structure itself. What you are showing is a select statement, where a PK can not be defined.

    I think you want to use ALTER...

  • RE: Restore Differential Backup

    Tara-1044200 (6/1/2011)


    I have a full backup and 3 differential backups after that, i did restore full backup successfully with "no recovery" and restoring a latest(3rd) differential backup on top of...

  • RE: how to proceed with learning?

    Welcome to the forums.

    Uh. Access and VBA is a looooong way from Azure.

    Your migration path totally depends on how much you want to rewrite and what technologies you...

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Jan Van der Eecken (6/1/2011)


    Brings me back to the beginning of my days (pun intended). A different language entirely:

    10 Print "I'm not a Re-Curser but I am a Re-Cursor."

    20...

  • RE: db file size

    Jeffrey Williams-493691 (6/1/2011)


    Jim Murphy (6/1/2011)


    Ninja's_RGR'us (6/1/2011)


    Find the job that pages you about low freespace to understand how it works.

    great advice.

    Also I'd put the growth to something more around 1 GB,...

  • RE: db file size

    Ninja's_RGR'us (6/1/2011)


    Find the job that pages you about low freespace to understand how it works.

    great advice.

    Also I'd put the growth to something more around 1 GB, 100 mb these days...

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    The Dixie Flatline (6/1/2011)


    Would you call this recursive?

    WITH cte (Curse) AS

    (

    SELECT 'Dammit'

    UNION ALL

    SELECT Curse from cte

    )

    select Curse from cte

    Brings me back to the beginning of my days (pun...

  • RE: Tempdb issue

    To add to what Jason said, data files should 'fill more evenly' (proportional fill) if all data files are the exact same size. If they are lopsided in size, SQL...

  • RE: Tempdb issue

    Like other databases, tempdb will not shrink down automatically. It will grow as needed and remain at the larger size unless/until manually shrunk. It is not normally recommended to...

  • RE: File autogrowth option

    I grow my files to a size where they won't need to auto grow for a year to 1.5 years. Like the other poster said, you do not want your...

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    GilaMonster (5/31/2011)


    Damian Widera-396333 (5/31/2011)


    What is the *REAL* question here?

    The one the thread started with 3 years ago, or the current ones being discussed (26000 posts later)?

    I think Michael Earl should...

  • RE: Database Mail error

    Gander at this: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms188663.aspx. In the MSDB database, there are system tables that you can query to see the exact error and status of your Agent initiated message and...

  • RE: Data and Log files, where to keep them using industry best practices.

    Alan,

    You are correct that the BAK, MDF and LDF's should all be separated at a minimum to provide better fault tolerance.

    There are other complexities that make separating your...

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