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  • RE: The Oddest Interview Questions

    JP Dakota (2/23/2011)


    I was once asked for the absolute value of Pi. There isn't one.

    ...

    I have to disagree; the absolute value of Pi is Pi.

    Absolute value,

    From Wikipedia, the free...

  • RE: The Oddest Interview Questions

    skcadavre (2/23/2011)


    "What do your parents do for a living?"

    I just remember thinking - what in god's name has that got to do with anything?

    It's good to have an answer that...

  • RE: Fastest way to copy backup file from server 1 to server 2

    Your copy speed is way too slow even for a slow network connection. I just copied a 100 GB file over a WAN link using ROBOCOPY and it finished...

  • RE: How To Get System Uptime via T-SQL

    george sibbald (2/21/2011)


    I don't think uptime is installed by default, you have to download it, so your servers might not have it.

    This any good via xp_cmdshell?

    http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555737

    The UPTIME.EXE only has to...

  • RE: How To Get System Uptime via T-SQL

    Have you tried using the windows UPTIME command?

    Gives detailed command help:

    uptime /help

    Gives system uptime:

    uptime \\MyServerName

    \\MyServerName has been up for: 26 day(s), 9 hour(s), 17 minute(s), 56 second(s)

    Gives history of system...

  • RE: Data Compression - Clustered Index

    Have you seen this? Seems to apply to large data types, like TEXT.

    From SQL Server 2008 Books Online:

    "Because of their size, large-value data types are sometimes stored separately from...

  • RE: Data Compression - Clustered Index

    oskargunn (2/16/2011)


    Here is the create script:

    CREATE TABLE [dbo].[Table](

    [ID] [bigint] IDENTITY(1,1) NOT NULL,

    [MachineName] [varchar](50) NULL,

    [Service] [varchar](100) NULL,

    [WebMethod] [varchar](100) NULL,

    [Session] [varchar](50) NULL,

    [Name] [varchar](50) NOT NULL,

    127.0.0.1 [varchar](50) NOT NULL,

    [Time] [datetime] NOT NULL,

    [Duration] [float]...

  • RE: Data Compression - Clustered Index

    The clustered index includes all the data pages, so are you certain that it wasn't already compressed?

  • RE: Performance tunig Fusion-IO

    TheSQLGuru (2/15/2011)


    Michael Valentine Jones (2/14/2011)


    Before you implemented the fusionIO drive, did you verify that the server was actually IO bound so that you could expect to see an increase in...

  • RE: Can you please help me

    To restore a backup of an encrypted database to the same server it originated from, it's the same as any other restore because the certificate needed to decrypt it already...

  • RE: Backup/Restore Database for 2005 > 2008 conversion

    Howard C. BAchtel-438731 (2/15/2011)


    We are planning to move from 2005 to 2008 SQl Server (different/newer server). Our plan is to do full backup of all user databases from 2005...

  • RE: Performance tunig Fusion-IO

    Before you implemented the fusionIO drive, did you verify that the server was actually IO bound so that you could expect to see an increase in performance?

    If most of the...

  • RE: Having Problems with backing up and ROBOCOPY to another server?!?

    If you are copying a file to a share, the service account must have permissions to both the share and the underlying directory structure.

  • RE: sql server 2008 R2 evaluation

    Maybe they will sign off a little faster once it stops working.

  • RE: Backup from server to locahard

    Steve Jones - SSC Editor (2/9/2011)


    Grant is correct, but a clarification. The backup runs from the server, so

    BACKUP DATABASE MYDatabase to disk = 'c:\mybackup.bak'

    runs to the C: drive on...

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