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  • RE: Sending a Variable Number of Elements in a Parameter

    Alex,

    All listed criticisms listed above aside ( I do not necessarily agree with them), I thought your article was interesting to read. I have used delimited...

    Bill Soranno
    MCP, MCTS, MCITP DBA
    Database Administrator
    Winona State University
    Maxwell 143

    "Quality, like Success, is a Journey, not a Destination" - William Soranno '92

  • RE: Scripting SQL Agents Jobs using Powershell

    Nice script.

    To get it to run properly I had to comment out lines 9, 13, 39 and 40. /* and */ are not valid in powershell. Lines 39 and...

    Bill Soranno
    MCP, MCTS, MCITP DBA
    Database Administrator
    Winona State University
    Maxwell 143

    "Quality, like Success, is a Journey, not a Destination" - William Soranno '92

  • RE: Replication: SQL 2008 R2 Publisher to SQL 2012 Subscriber

    Using the sql script worked.

    Thanks

    Bill Soranno
    MCP, MCTS, MCITP DBA
    Database Administrator
    Winona State University
    Maxwell 143

    "Quality, like Success, is a Journey, not a Destination" - William Soranno '92

  • RE: Replication: SQL 2008 R2 Publisher to SQL 2012 Subscriber

    I must be missing something. I have just finished rebuilding my publishing sql server on sql server 2008 r2. When I try to add one of my sql server 2012...

    Bill Soranno
    MCP, MCTS, MCITP DBA
    Database Administrator
    Winona State University
    Maxwell 143

    "Quality, like Success, is a Journey, not a Destination" - William Soranno '92

  • RE: Script Out Database Mail Settings?

    Lowell,

    I just found your script and will be adding it to my collection. Thank you for the work.

    I did make one change. I removed the cte...

    Bill Soranno
    MCP, MCTS, MCITP DBA
    Database Administrator
    Winona State University
    Maxwell 143

    "Quality, like Success, is a Journey, not a Destination" - William Soranno '92

  • RE: All database files growth

    Nice script.

    I found on my servers, 2008 R2, I had to divide growth by 128 to reflect the value shown in the UI.

    Bill Soranno
    MCP, MCTS, MCITP DBA
    Database Administrator
    Winona State University
    Maxwell 143

    "Quality, like Success, is a Journey, not a Destination" - William Soranno '92

  • RE: Password Help

    I have the self contained version of KeyPass installed on my flash drive I carry with me. That way I can run the program from the flash drive no matter...

    Bill Soranno
    MCP, MCTS, MCITP DBA
    Database Administrator
    Winona State University
    Maxwell 143

    "Quality, like Success, is a Journey, not a Destination" - William Soranno '92

  • RE: Password Handling

    Nice editorial.

    For the end users, that are allowed direct access to a sql server, domain accounts are required. They are granted access thru AD groups, so their account does not...

    Bill Soranno
    MCP, MCTS, MCITP DBA
    Database Administrator
    Winona State University
    Maxwell 143

    "Quality, like Success, is a Journey, not a Destination" - William Soranno '92

  • RE: Self Service SQL

    Sean

    I would just like to say ditto!

    Bill Soranno
    MCP, MCTS, MCITP DBA
    Database Administrator
    Winona State University
    Maxwell 143

    "Quality, like Success, is a Journey, not a Destination" - William Soranno '92

  • RE: MSDB Tables/Views

    Nils,

    You put the complaint in before I could.

    Thank you.

    Bill Soranno
    MCP, MCTS, MCITP DBA
    Database Administrator
    Winona State University
    Maxwell 143

    "Quality, like Success, is a Journey, not a Destination" - William Soranno '92

  • RE: Delete Linked Server via SSMS - Message that Remote Logins will be removed

    The exact message states:

    Deleting a remote server deletes all remote logins defined for that server. Are you sure you want to delete this linked server and all remote logins for...

    Bill Soranno
    MCP, MCTS, MCITP DBA
    Database Administrator
    Winona State University
    Maxwell 143

    "Quality, like Success, is a Journey, not a Destination" - William Soranno '92

  • RE: SQL Saturday is Coming to Dublin on March 24th 2011

    Is the event on March 24th 2012?

    Bill Soranno
    MCP, MCTS, MCITP DBA
    Database Administrator
    Winona State University
    Maxwell 143

    "Quality, like Success, is a Journey, not a Destination" - William Soranno '92

  • RE: Function to expand tab characters

    Phil,

    Here is a much simpler function.

    ALTER FUNCTION [dbo].[fnConvertTabToSpaces]

    (

    @String VARCHAR(8000)

    ,@NumSpaces INT

    )

    RETURNS VARCHAR(8000)

    AS

    ...

    Bill Soranno
    MCP, MCTS, MCITP DBA
    Database Administrator
    Winona State University
    Maxwell 143

    "Quality, like Success, is a Journey, not a Destination" - William Soranno '92

  • RE: SQL DBAdmin toolbox - Part 2: Verify all databases in the enterprise

    Zhong,

    I ran your process for one of my smaller sql servers and it worked great.

    I have a question for you.

    In the RestoreConfig table you have two columns, DatabaseName and DBExclude,...

    Bill Soranno
    MCP, MCTS, MCITP DBA
    Database Administrator
    Winona State University
    Maxwell 143

    "Quality, like Success, is a Journey, not a Destination" - William Soranno '92

  • RE: SQL DBAdmin toolbox - Part 2: Verify all databases in the enterprise

    Zhong,

    I was able to do a find and replace for the lines that appeared in the code.

    I am in the process of going thru the procedures...

    Bill Soranno
    MCP, MCTS, MCITP DBA
    Database Administrator
    Winona State University
    Maxwell 143

    "Quality, like Success, is a Journey, not a Destination" - William Soranno '92

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