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  • RE: SQL 6.5: How to know when last change were done.

    How about looking at the size of your transaction logs? all the ones showing no acitivity should be of the same size, the last one showing something else would...

  • RE: Primary Key

    Okay... lets try to get to the bottom line on this stuff.

    You should create a PK when you want to have RI enforced.

    If you want to enforce uniqueness an Unique...

  • RE: Table Space not released

    ...so you want the space back after dropping a column?

    Just reorganize e.g. move the affected table.

    In regards to all those posts talking abour shinking the database... pals/gals... what has possesed...

  • RE: How to backup,copy and restore?

    I see... sort of home-made replication, huh?

    I assume you have already figured it our you would probably need two jobs... one on the source machine and one on the target...

  • RE: Where should the DBA Team exist?

    Steve --

    Have you noticed that in a weird way you are supporting my position?

    The parallel universe you are describing where college professors know what they are doing, upper management...

  • RE: Where should the DBA Team exist?

    smunson (10/15/2008)If I had my way, an organization would NEVER have ANY developers who weren't capable of good, solid, DBA skills, at least from a performance and database design perspective,...

  • RE: !!! MISSING .mdf File

    Not that weird, I'm with Jason... somebody got rid of it.

    Well... not all are bad news, you can take this situation as an opportunity to test your backup/recover strategy 🙂

  • RE: Where should the DBA Team exist?

    doobya (10/15/2008)


    The application developer should be the DBA of his applications' databases.

    Separation of roles results in low quality results.

    Integration is the route to high quality and efficiency.

    :w00t: my eyes!... my...

  • RE: Changing models tables

    Just in case it was a two parts question... no, altering MODEL tables wouldn't stop your user from working.

  • RE: Primary Key

    Jeff Moden for President!!!

    You have my vote Jeff, I do agree.

  • RE: index question

    Wilfred van Dijk (10/14/2008)


    ... do I need to rebuild the index after truncating the table to get the index size under control?...

    If you truncate the table, SQL marks the table...

  • RE: Is this backup script good enough to put in production box????

    Not sure why you want to work that hard to solve something is already solved, wouldn't be easier to schedule a job or two?

    Answering your question I think you have...

  • RE: Moving tables to filegroup didn't change PRIMARY size

    1- Take two backups, verify after completion and have dump files in different sets of media.

    2- Drop your database

    3- Pre Create your database with the proper sizes.

    4- Restore your database...

  • RE: Primary Key

    I would love to agree but I just can't 😀 Happens we -or at least I - are talking about a very specific case which is STG tables properly...

  • RE: Moving tables to filegroup didn't change PRIMARY size

    ... and it did actually free up space... inside your affected PRIMARY filegroup 🙂

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