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  • Reply To: Log File Architecture

    My answer was an absolute guess.  I had no clue.  I just kept thinking about how many pages it would take and how to link them all together.

    Wallace Houston
    Sunnyland Farms, Inc.

    "We must endeavor to persevere."

  • Reply To: Do You Still Use CHAR?

    NOOOOOO!  The kingdom I inherited over 10 years ago had seen several different programmers and between duplication and poor design, they created a monster that I'm still dealing with.  CHAR...

    Wallace Houston
    Sunnyland Farms, Inc.

    "We must endeavor to persevere."

  • Reply To: The Full OFFSET

    I didn't know it, so I googled it and found it here https://www.sqlservertutorial.net/sql-server-basics/sql-server-offset-fetch/

    but the answer didn't just jump out.  I used process of elimination.  If this is cheating, I apologize.

    Wallace Houston
    Sunnyland Farms, Inc.

    "We must endeavor to persevere."

  • Reply To: Better SQL Server Agent Job Failure Monitoring

    When you say "The SQL code to add to the job is shown here:" do you mean add it to the end of the job or where?

    Wallace Houston
    Sunnyland Farms, Inc.

    "We must endeavor to persevere."

  • Reply To: Stairway to Columnstore Indexes Level 1: A First Look At Columnstore Indexes

    Excellent and well-written.  Unfortunately I'm still on SS 2008!  However, that changes in January. So, hopefully I get a chance to practice this technology.  Thanx!

    Wallace Houston
    Sunnyland Farms, Inc.

    "We must endeavor to persevere."

  • RE: An Introduction to PowerShell for a DBA

    Execute xp_cmdshell 'BCP Mailing.dbo.tTotalJimsListNEW IN "\\MyServer\Shareddata\MyFolder\Mailing Lists\ListtoImport\RemovalsNoCusts.txt" -c -S SQL1 -U me -P mypassword'

    I run scripts like this from an SSMS query window,

    Wallace Houston
    Sunnyland Farms, Inc.

    "We must endeavor to persevere."

  • RE: An Introduction to PowerShell for a DBA

    the example given would be run from ad hoc queries in SSMS.  Similar imports, which have a static naming convention run from stored procedures.  Yes, a trusted connection could be...

    Wallace Houston
    Sunnyland Farms, Inc.

    "We must endeavor to persevere."

  • RE: An Introduction to PowerShell for a DBA

    Wow!  I'm going to play with this a while.  That's the best way for me to learn.
    Thanx!

    Wallace Houston
    Sunnyland Farms, Inc.

    "We must endeavor to persevere."

  • RE: An Introduction to PowerShell for a DBA

    Amen on "start down the PowerShell learning path that I should have been going down for the past several years."  I'm in that same boat.  This looks like an excellent...

    Wallace Houston
    Sunnyland Farms, Inc.

    "We must endeavor to persevere."

  • RE: Step by Step Configuring AlwaysOn with Log Shipping

    What version of SQL Server are you using?
    What application are we seeing in the Screenshot?  It doesn't look like SSMS (at least SSMS 2008). 
    I'm using Log Shipping but...

    Wallace Houston
    Sunnyland Farms, Inc.

    "We must endeavor to persevere."

  • RE: Alias name to Database

    I haven't tried this, but thought you might want to.

    Leave the old database in place. I know you have moved the tables to a new DB.

    Create Views in the...

    Wallace Houston
    Sunnyland Farms, Inc.

    "We must endeavor to persevere."

  • RE: Daily Database Backup Scripts

    Ours are attached. They've been modified recently to accommodate a log shipping setup. The logs cursor through a table which consists of database name and a bit field...

    Wallace Houston
    Sunnyland Farms, Inc.

    "We must endeavor to persevere."

  • RE: stop log shipping

    Yep, this answer is dead on. It removed agent jobs from the primary and secondary.

    After that I just deleted the secondary database which was in Read Only mode.

    Thanx!

    Wallace Houston
    Sunnyland Farms, Inc.

    "We must endeavor to persevere."

  • RE: Log Shipping can't find first transaction log

    Joie,

    Yes, the copy job has worked all along(see caveat below) and I checked the backup folder against the restore folder on the Secondary. They have the exact same files....

    Wallace Houston
    Sunnyland Farms, Inc.

    "We must endeavor to persevere."

  • RE: Output a query as an Excel file

    Certainly a viable option, but the above code is part of a stored procedure, the first part of which populates a table which is then exported. The proc is...

    Wallace Houston
    Sunnyland Farms, Inc.

    "We must endeavor to persevere."

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