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  • RE: Canceling a DBCC Shrinkfile Command

    Just an FYI - I have found that shrinking in smaller amounts will speed things up considerably. No more than 2GB at a time seemed to be optimum for our...

    MG

    "There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies."
    Tony Hoare

    "If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair.

  • RE: SQL Error Log storage - Where is the value for the number stored

    Thank you. I missed it completely!

    MG

    "There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies."
    Tony Hoare

    "If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair.

  • RE: permissions for logins/users/roles

    you might also try sp_helprotect.

    MG

    "There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies."
    Tony Hoare

    "If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair.

  • RE: Performance problem with Text data type

    Thank you all for your suggestions. We sized the archive database for 2 years of data and the initial load will be for 1 year. I completely blanked out on...

    MG

    "There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies."
    Tony Hoare

    "If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair.

  • RE: Formatting in BCP

    You might try creating an sql script that will format your selection and use it with OSQL and an output file.

    MG

    "There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies."
    Tony Hoare

    "If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair.

  • RE: 2 Of 5 Subscriptions got wrong Number Of Transactions

    nope - no errors at all.

     

    MG

    "There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies."
    Tony Hoare

    "If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair.

  • RE: Cant see the network drive in the Choose Restore Destination window

    You may want to check this out:

    http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;304261

    MG

    "There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies."
    Tony Hoare

    "If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair.

  • RE: Automatically load DTS packages

    Another option might be to save the packages as VB files (.bas, it's an option in the Save As) and compile them into executables.

    MG

    "There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies."
    Tony Hoare

    "If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair.

  • RE: Get Second Highest Value

    Yet another way:

    use Northwind

    go

    Select top 2 rownum = identity(int,1,1),

               productid, quantity

    into #tmp

    from [order details]

    order by quantity desc

    select * from #tmp

    where rownum = 2

    drop table #tmp

    MG

    "There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies."
    Tony Hoare

    "If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair.

  • RE: Help with Joins??!!

    The maximum value that an integer data type can contain is 2,147,483,647. Try using a bigint data type.

    MG

    "There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies."
    Tony Hoare

    "If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair.

  • RE: DTS - can changes to package be scripted?

    Thank you for the input. I just finished reading todays' article on DTS Logging and I think using SQL-DMO would be the way to go. Now I just need to...

    MG

    "There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies."
    Tony Hoare

    "If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair.

  • RE: DTS - can changes to package be scripted?

    The packages I need to update with new connection information already exist in an SQL Server. Currently, I  open the package in designer and modify the connections. I would like...

    MG

    "There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies."
    Tony Hoare

    "If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair.

  • RE: OP SY UPGRDE - Does SQL need to be reinstalled?

    Just one installation - Advanced Server on C. The SQL binaries are currently on E.

    MG

    "There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies."
    Tony Hoare

    "If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair.

  • RE: MSDE/SQL Error Help

    Unfortunately, I don't know. You would have to contact support for your disk controller manufacturer and find out  from them. It's done at the controller level.

    MG

    "There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies."
    Tony Hoare

    "If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair.

  • RE: MSDE/SQL Error Help

    This very much like the 605 error. Microsoft advised us to turn off read caching completely. Generally, you will need to turn the write cache up to 100% in order...

    MG

    "There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies."
    Tony Hoare

    "If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair.

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