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  • RE: Developer access to production

    Hi

    db_ddladmin privs?? you have got to be joking! 🙂 my developers are lucky to get CRUD let alone anything else. Get them to write up and DTS, you...


    Chris Kempster
    www.chriskempster.com
    Author of "SQL Server Backup, Recovery & Troubleshooting"
    Author of "SQL Server 2k for the Oracle DBA"

  • RE: Bug Found? cast doesnt work

    whoa...

    nows all queries are working? what the heck is going on here. Perhaps a bad proc cache entry?

    just chatted with another developer and...


    Chris Kempster
    www.chriskempster.com
    Author of "SQL Server Backup, Recovery & Troubleshooting"
    Author of "SQL Server 2k for the Oracle DBA"

  • RE: Error Connecting to Oracle Using DTS

    check your sqlnet config and in the wizard, play with the connection so that it matches the sqlnet.ora string at your client. Also, login to the server and try...


    Chris Kempster
    www.chriskempster.com
    Author of "SQL Server Backup, Recovery & Troubleshooting"
    Author of "SQL Server 2k for the Oracle DBA"

  • RE: Australian market

    Hi

    http://www.amcon.com.au, they are looking for DBA's for sydney, u also need oracle experience in australia (i found anyhow). U may need to travel (namely Canbera and Melbourne.)

    Cheers

    Ck


    Chris Kempster
    www.chriskempster.com
    Author of "SQL Server Backup, Recovery & Troubleshooting"
    Author of "SQL Server 2k for the Oracle DBA"

  • RE: Front-end for Sql server - What's best?

    Hi all

    Bugger it, im adding my 2cents worth here 🙂

    I am relatively new to the Microsoft realm as the DBA, but saying that and the projects itve been involved with...


    Chris Kempster
    www.chriskempster.com
    Author of "SQL Server Backup, Recovery & Troubleshooting"
    Author of "SQL Server 2k for the Oracle DBA"

  • RE: single user mode

    Hi

    Ive had problems with using the command line and then trying to use EM against the instance (comes up with an error re too many administrators logged in etc). ...


    Chris Kempster
    www.chriskempster.com
    Author of "SQL Server Backup, Recovery & Troubleshooting"
    Author of "SQL Server 2k for the Oracle DBA"

  • RE: Mysterious indexes

    Brian is correct, they are statistics collections resulting from the auto create stats DB option. If you query any column SQL Server will collect stats for it, try it out...


    Chris Kempster
    www.chriskempster.com
    Author of "SQL Server Backup, Recovery & Troubleshooting"
    Author of "SQL Server 2k for the Oracle DBA"

  • RE: padindex - setting for all indexes

    What ill do is eval the most frequently altered tables and use EM for these to fix pad_index. In other cases I may re-evel the fill factor anyhow and...


    Chris Kempster
    www.chriskempster.com
    Author of "SQL Server Backup, Recovery & Troubleshooting"
    Author of "SQL Server 2k for the Oracle DBA"

  • RE: Same Query - slow prod and dev, fast in test?

    Hi all

    Thanks for the pointers, ive considered all of these, the dbcc command was my last vain attempt and forcing a recompilation but will remember the comment re freeproccache on...


    Chris Kempster
    www.chriskempster.com
    Author of "SQL Server Backup, Recovery & Troubleshooting"
    Author of "SQL Server 2k for the Oracle DBA"

  • RE: Quickly Moving Databases

    Hi there

    From memory here, I didnt "title" the article so the SSC crew gave it one 🙂

    Fair comment though, I have a few client sites that required 24x7, and attaching...


    Chris Kempster
    www.chriskempster.com
    Author of "SQL Server Backup, Recovery & Troubleshooting"
    Author of "SQL Server 2k for the Oracle DBA"

  • RE: Timeout on linked server but..

    Found it.

    The query wasnt being submitted to the remote server at all. I checked the remote box after some political hoo-harr and found that there were 3 DTS batch...


    Chris Kempster
    www.chriskempster.com
    Author of "SQL Server Backup, Recovery & Troubleshooting"
    Author of "SQL Server 2k for the Oracle DBA"

  • RE: Timeout on linked server but..

    Hi there, around 2 months back i had a so-called corrupt problem, ran checkdb and the errors disappeared with the fix options. I backed up and recovered the db...


    Chris Kempster
    www.chriskempster.com
    Author of "SQL Server Backup, Recovery & Troubleshooting"
    Author of "SQL Server 2k for the Oracle DBA"

  • RE: Disk Space Needed to Perform Restore

    Hi there

    Yep, ive had very similar problems, the key is that yes, the files are restored to their original backup size, but, ive had the same issue recently where i...


    Chris Kempster
    www.chriskempster.com
    Author of "SQL Server Backup, Recovery & Troubleshooting"
    Author of "SQL Server 2k for the Oracle DBA"

  • RE: Creating Stored Procedure Documentation with XML, SQL-DMO and XSLT

    Great article and very imformative.

    Cheers

    Chris


    Chris Kempster
    www.chriskempster.com
    Author of "SQL Server Backup, Recovery & Troubleshooting"
    Author of "SQL Server 2k for the Oracle DBA"

  • RE: Fill Factor

    Hi

    I am confused with the real meaning behind fill-factor zero, a lot of MS docs state its an "internally" managed factor that will work in nearly all cases. I...


    Chris Kempster
    www.chriskempster.com
    Author of "SQL Server Backup, Recovery & Troubleshooting"
    Author of "SQL Server 2k for the Oracle DBA"

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