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  • RE: Upgrade advisor reports strange errors

    It sounds like a permission problem with the user account that you are using to run the Upgrade Wizard .


    Have a good day,

    Norene Malaney

  • RE: Defining Keys through Management Studio

    Macca:

    In Management Studio:  If you right-click on the table you want to modify, and choose "Modify":

    * You should be able to select more than one field for a primary key...


    Have a good day,

    Norene Malaney

  • RE: Who do you hire?

    If you are starting to have doubts about hiring a person after you interviewed them you can always try:

    (1) calling references to get a feel for the candidate's personality (you would be surprised...


    Have a good day,

    Norene Malaney

  • RE: Multiple Backups are running on the same database

    In SQL 2005 EM,

    to find the maintenance plans:  (DB_SERVER) -> Management -> Maintenance Plans

    to find the scheduled jobs: (DB_SERVER) -> SQL Server Agent -> Jobs

    ** replace (DB_SERVER) with the...


    Have a good day,

    Norene Malaney

  • RE: Automate shrinking of transaction logs?

    Not sure if this is what you are asking ... in FULL recovery mode when you perform a transactional log backup, your transacation log file will be reduced in size...


    Have a good day,

    Norene Malaney

  • RE: A Good Reference

    What a great idea!  I can't wait to see your course offerings.  I only hope that I can persuade my boss to send me to a class in Orlando, Fl...


    Have a good day,

    Norene Malaney

  • RE: BACKUP EXPIREDATE/RETAINDAYS Question

    I use the "Remove Files Older Than" option in my maintenance plans.  For example, my maintenance plan #1 writes all backups to C:\Backups and runs every Sunday. ...


    Have a good day,

    Norene Malaney

  • RE: BACKUP EXPIREDATE/RETAINDAYS Question

    Found the following at http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-US/library/ms186865(SQL.90).aspx.  It seems to be that the difference is that "EXPIREDATE" gives you the option of specifiying the ACTUAL DATE the backup can be overwritten while...


    Have a good day,

    Norene Malaney

  • RE: Disaster Recovery Documentation - Lots of Screen Prints or Not???

    We do not use screen shots.  Having them in the documentation just causes more work when upgrades are made to the software.  If you have a minor upgrade where there...


    Have a good day,

    Norene Malaney

  • RE: Sql Server Export Wizard to Access converts varchar to memo field

    Glad that helped.  Sorry though, I don't know the answer to:

    is there a way to change SQL Server's internal datatype mapping of exporting to Access so that when it sees...

    Have a good day,

    Norene Malaney

  • RE: Sql Server Export Wizard to Access converts varchar to memo field

    Just tried this out.  In the SQL Export Wiz, on the "Select Source Table and Views", click the "Edit" button next to the table that contains a varchar.  Change the...


    Have a good day,

    Norene Malaney

  • RE: White icon

    I am glad that I am not the only one who had that question ... I was so curious about it that I saved the icon (from my browser) to...


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    Norene Malaney

  • RE: How similar is SQL Server to MS Access?

    Top 10 differences between SQL Server and Access:

    10)  Memory management

    9)  SQL can handle bigger size databases

    8) Extra server side components for SQL Server (i.e.like Analysis services, DTS, etc)

    7) You can...


    Have a good day,

    Norene Malaney

  • RE: Linking of table from other database

    And I have one more questions Like in MS ACCESS we can link some of the tables from different databases like Access or other databases using ODBC, is that kind...

    Have a good day,

    Norene Malaney

  • RE: Backup not working & Maintenance Plan not working

    As SQLBill mentioned, make sure that SQL Server Agent is running:

    On the server, open up Control Panel -> Administrative Tools -> Services.  Make sure that "SQLSERVERAGENT" is listed as "Running". ...


    Have a good day,

    Norene Malaney

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